The Kindle Chronicles

Author of Barrio Imbroglio   Interview starts at 14:24 and ends at 38:38   There’s an incentive for Amazon on two levels to say, “Hey, let’s try to bring in readers.” And one way of bringing in readers is you get more writers. And so they’re definitely reaching out to Spanish-language authors in America and in Latin Americas to get their work up on Kindle.   News “Amazon updates Kindle Paperwhite...

Author of The Underwriting   Interview starts at 19:39 and ends at 39:40   I was a first-time novelist; I didn’t have a name at all. So it was a great way to find my audience before I tried to find an agent and a publisher. I think that is such a daunting process for writers, to find someone to pay attention and beyond paying attention to understand their work and let them maintain their vision.  ...

Professor at Le Moyne College   Interview starts at 17:02 and ends at 44:15   If it keeps your attention, and you’re enjoying it, and it’s making you think —that’s the book for you. News “Trade Sales Fell in February” by Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly - June 5, 2014 BEA panel on Publishing in China “China and Publishing: The Best of Times, or the Worst of Times?” by Rachel Aydt at Publishing Per...

Intro Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback, 1993) by Scott McCloud    Interviews at Denver Comic Con (Times show when each interview begins)   Andy Mithun of the Stubby Shillelaghs  (6:25)     Critical Fail Kickstarter campaign Clayton Kauffman, 12, of Brush, Colorado (12:20) Dale Roberts of Dale Roberts Comics (13:56) Megan Sullivan, director of communications, Aurora Rise  (17:23)...

Authors of The Straight-A Conspiracy   Interview starts at 13:10 and ends at 41:52   What the brain science says is that if you’ve learned one thing, you can learn anything. If your brain has a preference right now, it’s just because you’ve been working on that thing a little more. Your brain is not coming into the world ready to be more Englishy than mathy .   News “What’s The Best Ebook Reader?”...

Author of Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day   Interview starts at 21:13 and ends at 39:30   Becoming aware of shadow work enables us to prune away some of the clutter in our lives. Take, for example, surveys—the inundation of our time with surveys, requests for surveys. It seems you can’t buy anything or go anywhere or receive any service without having a followup survey usua...

INSERT PHOTO OF CUTE DOG HERE   I have tweaked my workflow for uploading new episodes of the show and want to make sure it works before I begin creating TKC 354 this week.  If you see this and could let me know how it looks and sounds on your devices, I would appreciate hearing from you at PodChronicles AT gmail DOT com.  Here is a link to Amazon.com  (feel free to buy something with it!)  

Director of the Isaacson School for New Media, Colorado Mountain College Presentation starts at 5:32 and ends at 43:55 In the 1930s, Walter Benjamin wrote, "The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet but the one who cannot take a photograph." I mean could this guy see far ahead, or […]

Author of Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now Interview starts at 13:37 and ends at 36:56 I remember a long time ago when Timothy Leary saw one of my first books, Cyberia or something, an early book about cyberculture, and he took it and he was moving his finger along the lines, and going "a line, and […]

Founder of Write Our World Interview starts at 19:15 and ends at 39:47 The necessity of writing a book requires that they talk to the elders in their communities or other people who can help them, so it's really a wonderful language-building, literacy activity.   News "Four of the big five have new deals with Amazon […]

Links NMX New Media Expo in Las Vegas Tom Webster of Edison Research Monthly podcast listening statistics from Edison Research – February 15, 2015 Power of Moms podcast Mark Ramsey's Media Unplugged podcast Libsyn Rocks! Interview with Robert Martin (begins at 3:39, ends at 20:00) Isaacson School of New Media at Colorado Mountain College Article about "the uncanny […]

Director of Content at Wattpad Interview starts at 17:50 and ends at 37:37 I think that Wattpad's a great place for people to be able to tell their own experience and their own story. We're seeing really interesting, diverse stories being added to Wattpad from around the world. News Oyster "Oyster Expands Its 'Netflix For Books Service […]

Co-authors of Transcendence Interview starts at 8:31 and ends at 38:29 As an historical upward swing, people can view all this as ways of increasing our ability to share information and ideas and therefore get smarter. I'm not sure we're taking advantage of that yet, but maybe we will. –R. U. Sirius News "Amazon adds new […]

Software Quality Engineer in Santa Clara, California Interview starts at 13:06 and ends at 39:32 So if you have Evernote installed on your Fire, then it will be one of the options. You can put it directly into your notebook. It's not quite as slick as I'd like, but it's better than copy and paste. […]

Founder and CEO of Pebble Technology Corp. Interview starts at 7:54 and ends at 19:50 What we found is that as long as you're open, and the watch is an open platform, people will hack on it, people will build. So there's actually a Windows Phone for Pebble, there's a Blackberry app. I'll have to […]

Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research Interview starts at 17:05 and ends at 40:13 I think the problem with the written word is that it is so easy to generate and—no disrespect to the best writers out there—but at least poorly constructed sentences are very easy to generate. It means that this is a […]

Editorial Director, Amazon.com Interview starts at 17:17 and ends at 38:50 Dead Wake: Well this is Erik Larson, and if Erik Larson told me somebody had tied their shoes in an interesting way, I think I would read the book. News "Amazon may soon launch a wireless service" (video) – Nicholas Thompson, editor of NewYorker.com, […]

Editor-in-Chief of TeleRead Interview starts at 17:22 and ends at 39:20 If large-screen smartphones were going to replace the tablet, I would assume that I would start seeing people working on their big phones, and I still don't see it. News "Cory Doctorow Rejoins EFF to Eradicate DRM Everywhere" – Electronic Frontier Foundation release – […]

Co-founder of Blue Ink Review Interview starts at 17:15 and ends at 43:24 The people who are putting out quality books in self-publishing are actually investing quite a lot, because most books really do need editing, no matter whether you self-publish or you don't. Self-publishers usually can't afford the level of editing that maybe you'd get […]

Illustrator and Author of You Are (Not) Small Interview starts at 14:32 and ends at 37:56. Chris: Anyone with kids who watches someone read for the first time—I never would have realized how magical—it is one of the greatest experiences that I've ever seen, because the world opens up. News "Amazon launches its ebook subscription […]

Author of Mobile Strategies for Digital Publishing Interview starts at 13:21 and ends at 37:37. There may not be a lot of new readers coming into the eReader space, but it's a device that's got legs still, despite its apparently sort of old-fashioned and monochrome presence. News Kindle Convert for PC at Amazon.com ($19) "Amazon Echo […]

Author, entrepreneur, maker of ruckuses Interview starts at 4:33 and ends at 14:50. Paper books are going to gradually and painfully and very, very slowly disappear. They're going to become like LP's. One by one the bookstores are going to go away, and then one by one the kids that grow up reading all the […]

Author of The Martian Interview starts at 11:39 and ends at 38:29 More people bought it from Amazon than downloaded it for free from my site, which just goes to show you how deep into the market Amazon reaches and how good they are at selling books. That got it up into the Top Sellers […]

Amazon's senior vice president for Kindle We can all observe the fact that in every single digital media category subscriptions is playing an important role—in music, in movies, in newspapers—you cannot find a digital medium where subscription isn't a model that succeeds at some level, and I don't think books will be immune to this. […]

Author of 17 poetry collections recently formatted for eBook readers Interview starts at 12:49 and ends at 37:24. The Internet seems to have changed things for the better. You can't stop people from looking things up these days. They're usually doing it in front of you while they're talking to you. So, even though it's cheating, it's resulted […]