The Kindle Chronicles

Captain of Sea Dragon , Author of Loss at Sea: A Solo Circumnavigatio n Interview ‪starts at 13:19 and ends at 36:18 "It's less difficult than it will seem at times. There will be hard points, but as long as you can power through those or endure through those, you just have to keep going." News "Donald Trump threatens Amazon as payback for Washington Post articles he doesn't like" by Matthew Ygles...

Executive Team at Earplay   Interview ‪starts at 10:28 and ends at 44:37  Left to right: Dave Grossman, Chief Creative Officer; Bruno Batarelo, Chief Technology Officer; and Jonathan Myers, Chief Executive Officer   News Charlie Rose interview of Jeff Bezos (video) - October 27, 2016   Interview with Jonathan Myers Earplay site Western Dramatic Literature: A Micro-Anthology by Jonathan Myers & Jen...

Author of The Jekyll Revelation published by Amazon Publishing's 47North Imprint   Interview ‪starts at 10:00 and ends at 43:22 "I used to joke around that I could walk up to a table at any bookstore, and any book that wasn't published by the major houses—I could smell it a mile away. There was something wrong about the typography. The cover was somehow cheap looking. I didn't feel quite right. Th...

Bufo Calvin is the creator of the I Love My Kindle blog and The Measured Circle's Geek Time Trip Interview starts at 9:49 and ends at 36:45  "If you want to watch 'Devil Girl from Mars' you can go and watch it on this site . What's happening so far is that I'm having a great time with it. I'm adding stuff to it. Virtually no one else ever goes there. I kind of feel like I'm up in my attic, and I p...

EVP and Publisher, Open Road Integrated Media Interview ‪starts at 15:33 and ends at 43:28 "We are not an agency publisher. So we don't have any control over the consumer price. We set the digital list price, and we don't have control over the consumer price. And Amazon is free to discount it to whatever price they want. And I would also point out that we are very aggressive in the number of and t...

Author of Find Your Own Voice   Interview ‪starts at 16:18 and ends at 42:39 "I don't think books are going to evolve, because I think other things are there to take that slack up. And I think that's okay. The one thing I can tell you is I have a lot of print books in my life, even though I read mostly digital now. Every time I have a print book I always want to be clicking a link or something. I...

Senior Writer and Features Editor at Publishers Weekly Interview ‪starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05 "The fact that we have rapidly declining eBook sales from major publishers and that we see for two years running now in the Pew surveys that eBook readership is not growing is stunning, considering the vast offerings that are now available in digital format. I just hope that the publishers haven't,...

Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research   Interview ‪starts at 14:34 and ends at 44:17 "It'll happen in the cloud, and it will get propagated out to eight, 10, 15, 20 million households that will have the more rudimentary voice enabled [Alexa device], and then suddenly it will become like magic. Suddenly that device, that Trojan horse that Amazon has gotten into your home, will...

Rowing medalist, challenged reader trying a Kindle Interview ‪starts ‪at 14:43 and ends at 42:48 I remember walking home from third grade and throwing a workbook away, it was a book that I had made out of paper and was keeping notes in. I threw it in the bushes, because my teacher said, "You're supposed to take this home and get your parents to sign off on your assignments, that you've done them a...

Author of Substitute: Going to School With a Thousand Kids   Interview starts at 8:44 and ends at 41:26 The thing that really hit me was, this is compulsory. None of these kids have a choice. Whatever the cutoff age is, they have a choice, but all of those earlier years they cannot just decide, "I don't want to go to school today" unless they had a very understanding set of parents or something. T...

Senior Editor, ‪Amazon.com Books   Interview starts ‪at 17:14 and ends at 44:11 "I've heard it said that summer's a great time for summer reading, but it's also a great time to sit down with that one nonfiction book that you want to take the time to read. Maybe it's transitioning a little bit, but fall is definitely the big time to sell books. That's when everybody gears up and starts scheduling t...

Publisher of Open Letter Books   Interview starts at 15:15 and ends at 43:30 Amazon[Crossing] is filling in some of these gaps, because we haven't for a long time seen the normal mystery book that someone picks up in Spain and reads when they go on their vacation. That's never been translated into English, because it didn't seem like it would make a ton of money for one of the big presses, and the...

BookRiot contributor who writes about romance novels   Interview starts at 10:59 and ends at 42:21 We're sort of worshipping at the temple of love, the same way that religion can help us make sense of human experience and help us to feel there's good in the world—there's a structure that is bending towards the good. Romance can impart that feeling and help you feel like you're participating in the...

VP & Executive Editor, HarperCollins Publishers   Interview starts at 18:58 and ends at 43:28   There are a lot of very serious readers at Amazon, and honestly I think that that's something that is not understood. They don't all work on the editorial team vetting books for Best of the Month, but we did and I assume they still are using a lot of readers from the rest of the company who are not tech...

Senior Editor, AmazonCrossing   Interview starts at 17:02 and ends at 38:04 [Ayse Kulin] is one of many distinguished voices from diverse cultures that we've had the pleasure of publishing, and I think she's actually a really great example of what it is that we're trying to do here at AmazonCrossing   News "Amazon Resumes Selling Amazon's Gadgets Four Years After Rift" by Shannon Pettypiece at Blo...

Founder and CEO of Amazon.com   Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05   Only when I read a truly great novel do I feel that I have lived an alternate life that might actually teach me some lessons, so that I don't have to learn them myself. My favorite book is Remains of the Day. When I read Remains of the Day  I feel like I understand extreme life regret in a way that I hopefully will never...

Founder and CEO of the Idea Logical Company   Interview starts at 8:05 and ends at 34:24   I think it's possible that we're going to wake up and say we just had another black-swan event, which is that all of the big authors that have been developed over the last five years, a big share of them are Amazon authors, because they had the runway to do that, and publishers didn't.   News "Bezos Tops Buf...

Director of Marketing and Communication at OverDrive, Inc.   Interview starts at 15:18 and ends at 44:22 I'm happy to report that all of the Big Five publishers have made their titles available for library lending in eBook format. They've all been already in for their audiobook format. It's been a couple of years now that they've made their decision to add their titles on the front list, mid-list...

Director, Product Management - Amazon Kindle   Interview starts at 18:09 and ends at 43:26 The biggest technical challenge I would say is creating a seamless Page Flip reading experience across all of our platforms. Page Flip is available on eReaders, on Fire tablets, as well as the Kindle app for iOS and Android. Across those different experiences, we wanted to make sure that things like the perf...

My Father and Grandson   Interview starts at 23:32 and ends at 44:30   News Amazon Inspire press release - June 27, 2016 "Amazon Unveils Online Education Service for Educators" by Natasha Singer at The New York Times - June 27, 2016 "Amazon Inspire Removes Some Content Over Copyright Issues" by Natasha Singer at The New York Times - June 29, 2016 "Good News at The Washington Post" by Christopher P...

Co-Founder, Chairman and Executive Publisher of Open Road Integrated Media   Interview starts at 15:17 and ends at 44:11 I do not think that the world of print survived and now will thrive at the expense of eBooks. I think eBooks will coexist with print, which I think is the best of all possible worlds. And I think that at the right price the revenue that one can receive from eBooks will be pretty...

Director of Business Development at BookBub   Interview starts at 5:64 and ends at 16:18   BookBub definitely got off the ground with self-published authors. They're often the first people in the industry to experiment with a new marketing channel, and they were much more comfortable discounting their books four years ago than a lot of traditional publishers were. Over the course of the past four...

Co-Founder and CEO of Shelfie.com   Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05 We needed to find a metaphor, an analogy for the playlist or the inbound link when it came to books. What we found is that bookshelves are an incredibly good signal.   News 1999 Jeff Bezos speech at Association of American Publishers meeting (YouTube) "Watch Jeff Bezos Lay Out His Grand Vision for Amazon's Future Domin...

CEO of Tapas Media   Interview starts at 19:22 and ends at 43:40   I believe that for publishing, even though Kindle is capturing a lot of the mobile market, I think there are still innovations to be made. In terms of marketplace players out there who have fundamentally thought about the whole thing from mobile specifically, I don't think there's a lot yet.    News Walt Mossberg interviews Jeff Be...

Audio recorded at BookExpo America in Chicago and related links: Jon Malinowski (2:00-4:25), president of The Combined Book Exhibit , creator of the Book Fair Buddy app on iOS and Android platforms.      Pubmatch.com "Authorship in the Digital Age" panel moderated by Jon Fine (14:24-21:13), former Director of Author and Publishing Relations at Amazon "At Chicago's BEA-Lite: A Meaningful Discussion...