The Kindle Chronicles

Creator of TeleRead and LibraryCity Interview starts at 15:48 Everyone, I think, would be better off if we replaced DRM [Digital Rights Management] with either no "protection" at all, or else social DRM, which in this case means imprinting the readers' identities at the starts of books. The advantage of this is that books would […]

Contracts Attorney and Creator of The Passive Voice blog Interview starts at 22:32 "Predatory pricing" sounds good to people who don't really understand that law very well. But I don't see anything in Amazon's behavior that would support that. I think a predatory-pricing antitrust action would would get kicked out of court, because where are the […]

An 8-year-old Kindle reader Interview starts at 15:56 You can take a photo and put it on the Kindle of yourself. You would never get to do that to a book, probably! Show Notes and Links: News Full video of Jeff Bezos's Fire Phone presentation on June 18 in Seattle "FAA grounds Amazon's drone delivery plans" by […]

Dave Limp, Senior Vice President – Amazon Devices Interview starts at 27:17 A good example of a use case on reading, whether it's the autoscroll in a web page or autoscroll in a book, is on a train. Lots of people in this world commute, and they read with one hand while they're coming into […]

Senior Vice President – Amazon Kindle Interview starts at 18:20 We have made an experience that has helped people feel actually like they're getting real value to pay seven, eight, nine, ten bucks for text in the form of bits. And we think that's actually a tremendous accomplishment. We're proud that Kindle's played a role […]

Creator of Kindle Nation Daily and BookGorilla Interview starts at 15:56 Amazon has built this colossus in the retail industry by having the best pricing and the best availability ever imagined. And now what Amazon has done is basically to say that it's not going to use its powerful marketing tools of price and availability […]

Senior Editor for Literary Fiction at Amazon Publishing Interview starts at 10:22 One of the things when I was teaching is I would have these students who had a lot of promise, and I would encourage them. I would try to find magazine editors or agents for them on occasion. But what if I could […]

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My Wife, Darlene, and the Yorkie Claire at Ocean Park, Maine It depends on how you read. I think the basic Kindle is perfect if you don't need that light. I'm not sure that I would make the change if it wasn't for the light. Show Notes and Links: News Amazon takes top spot in [...]

Author of The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Survival, Success, Surfing…and Love Interview Starts at 4:55 Fear is going to be part of all of our lives. But there is a way to relate to it differently and more skillfully, and I know I will be learning about it the rest [...]

Vice President for Editorial and Content Innovation Semi-Linear, creator of the Citia app Interview Starts at 22:16 What we're doing at Semi-Linear with our Citia app is partnering with big publishers like HarperCollins, Hachette, and Penguin and saying, "Let us take a crack at some of your interesting and best-selling science and technology titles, [...]

Vice President / Principal Analyst at Forrester Research and author of the forthcoming Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation Interview Starts at 11:46 Trying to sue your way through into the future has not worked so far, and I think that's what the book publishers learned. They could very easily have dug in their [...]

Start times for interviews: Jeremy Greenfield - 6:27 Mike Shatzkin - 8:46 Michael Tamblyn (Kobo) - 7:14 Heather Severson - 8:22 Paul Biba - 17:30 Michael David Burleigh (OverDrive) - 24:05 Show Notes and Links: Digital Book World Digital Book World conference agenda My live blog coverage of sessions on the following topics: Obama campaign digital director [...]

Author of The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly? Interview Starts at 21:15 Walking through Union Square Market in New York or in an airport, no one comes up to me and says, "I read Free Prize Inside-it increased sales of Clorox by two percent" and then gives me a hug…not even in my dreams. I'm [...]

Shantanu Bala, creator of Ebook Glue, a new tool for creating eBooks Interview Starts at 18:15 A lot of writers are already formatting their content and arranging their content for their blogs and for their websites. To me, it doesn't really make sense why they should have to re-do that entire process for another device. It [...]

Garrett Riley, creator of A Tech Grab Bag Interview Starts at 16:21 The great thing (about Kindle FreeTime Unlimited) is that you can set time limits. I know a lot of parents listening to this agree with this: Once you hand them the device, it's like it goes into a time warp. You can tell [...]

David Lynn, editor of The Kenyon Review Interview Starts at 18:16 What I realized a couple of years ago about my mission with The Kenyon Review is not to make money but to have the great work we publish read by as many people around the world as possible. And so I use a variety of [...]

Jeremy Greenfield, editorial director, Digital Book World Interview Starts at 17:19 I think publishers right now are focused more on their authors and more on authors in general than they have been in a little while, because they realize that they're not the only game in town any more. Aside from competing with each other [...]

Evan Ratliff, cofounder, CEO and editor of Atavist Interview starts at 18:53 We publish through the Kindle Singles program, usually. Our stories are all nonfiction. They are between 5,000 and 30,000 words, and they generally cost about $1.99….By nonfiction narrative we usually mean stories that are either some sort of adventure or mystery-some set of [...]

News - 1) Amazon announces record Kindle sales on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. 2) Just in time for the holidays, a $1.5 million bonus is added for Kindle Direct Publishing authors enrolled in KDP Select. 3) Click here to vote for Worldreader.org in the Chase American Giving Awards. The deadline is Tuesday, December 4. Worldreader is [...]

News - This week marked the fifth anniversary of the introduction of the first Kindle. Five years later, The Los Angeles Times reports on a prediction that the Kindle Fire HD will outsell Apple's iPad mini by a margin of two to one. Tech Tip - You won't find a Kobo app at Amazon's Apps for Android [...]

News - Is the Kindle adding $9 billion to Amazon's market valuation?  I hope so! Tech Tip - How to offer your blog to the Kindle Store for subscriptions. Thanks to Charles Hugh Smith , author of Weblogs & New Media: Marketing in Crisis , for the question. Interview - Leslie Nicoll, an author of The Amazon Kindle FA Q and a leading light at the Kindle Boards forum, answers questions everyone has ab...

News - My own exclusive scuttlebutt which leads me to believe Amazon will start shipping the new version this month, ahead of the official announcement in February. Tech Tip - Ever wonder how much further you have to read before reaching the end of a chapter?  This tip will help you find out. Interview - Mike Elgan , widely read tech blogger and columnist, who puts the Kindle's phenomenal success...

The second half of my interview on Dec. 31, 2008 with tech blogger and columnist Mike Elgan . Part 1 is contained in episode 24 of the Kindle Chronicles.