The Kindle Chronicles

Author of The Everything Store Interview starts at 16:31 and ends at 28:37 "I'm resuming the story. It's the story of Alexa and the Amazon Go project, their international expansion, and AWS and the explosion in the Amazon Marketplace and then of course society coming to grips with this technology giant in its midst." News "E Ink is working on new color e-paper solutions" by Michael Kozlowski at Go...

Director, Adoption at Khoros in London Interview starts at 16:20 and ends at 49:09 "I find the Kindle good for highlighting, not as good for note taking. Even though I think that functionality has improved over the years, typing on the keypad on the Kindle doesn't work great for me. So depending on what I want to do and the type of book determines whether I want to go print version or read it on t...

Author of Heavenly Body , with her grandson Beau Interview starts at 21:06 and ends at 48:59 Installation and Test of Echo Auto Interview with Stephanie Edgerly    Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.  Please Join th...

Editorial Director of Amazon Original Stories Interview starts at 17:46 and ends at 36:41 "We are a publisher within the context of a technology company. And so we're really eager to work with authors who are world builders who are really interested in applying that type of imagination and creativity beyond the page." News Land of the Giants podcast with Jason del Rey   "Dean Koontz's Jump to Amaz...

April 29, 1929 - August 6, 2019 This week's show is about the passing of my mother and includes a conversation I had with her eight years ago. We titled the interview "Love in a Model A" and you'll hear why in the episode. RIP, Mom.  Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A...

Author of The Pecan Man Cassie's web site Amphibian Press YouTube interview with Cassie Selleck- August 6, 2018 The Pecan Man and The Truth About Grace by Cassie Dandridge Selleck Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD....

Author of The Solar War Interview starts at 15:38 and ends at 46:05 "In The Solar War, in the dark moments of the book, it really becomes about tribes of humans against other tribes of humans, and you wonder who's going to triumph. And then what happens on the other side?" News All-New Kindle Oasis and leather cover Interview with A. G. Riddle The Long Winter trilogy by A. G. Riddle: Winter World...

Stacey Lamberti, left, and Amy Stevens Interviews start at 15:05 and end at 45:57 News "Amazon Prime Day Topped $7 Billion: Internet Retailer" by Annie Gaus at TheStreet - July 18, 2019 Amazon press release on Prime Day results Interviews with beachgoers at Old Orchard Beach, Maine Kim Pilon from Ottawa, Canada:  The Islanders: A Novel by Meg Mitchell Moore Alan Crowell from The Villages in Florid...

Presenter of Digital Book World Sept. 10-12 in Nashville Interview starts at 17:04 and ends at 54:36 "This is a very unique conference. There's nothing quite like it. It's time well spent for anybody who touches in any way publishing or technology."  News Chris Walton's speculations on Prime Day of the future  Amazon's big new employee training program announced Peter Kafka interview with Vimeo CE...

Author of How Could She: A Novel Interview starts at 17:29 and ends at 45:54 "This book is about female friendship and how devastating and wonderful it can be." (Photo Copyright by Nina Subin) News "50 Million Americans Are Queuing Up For Amazon Prime Day 2019: What to Expect" by Pamela N. Danziger at Forbes - June 28, 2019 "This is your secret weapon for Amazon Prime Day deals" by Clifford Colby...

Just a few of Amazon's Best Books of the Year So Far Interview starts at 12:58 and ends at 45:20 "(Erin Kodicek:) So June is the halfway marker for the year, and it's also a time when a lot of people are going on vacation. So they're going to want to leave filling their bags and filling their Kindles with books. If you're having trouble filling those things with, we are happy to help you. Just vis...

Co-founder of N2Kindle Interview starts at 19:21 and ends at 49:24 "The thing that we're doing is we're changing the newsletter into a Kindle-friendly format, and then we forward them automatically. It would be a huge hassle to do that by yourself and to do that every morning or for every edition that you want to receive, so that's the thing that we're doing in the background." News Information on...

Manager of the Amazon Literary Partnership Interview starts at 15:41 and ends at 52:45 "I feel strongly that everyone has a story, and everyone deserves to have the opportunity to tell their story. The rest of us don't have an obligation to buy that story, but if it's out in the world and there's a way for people to find it, that's doing good work." News "What exactly is the point of Amazon's Trea...

Your Host beside the Blue Origin capsule Links Excerpts from Jeff Bezos's fireside chat at re:MARS on June 6, 2019 AI Today podcast hosted by Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer of Cognilytica Next Week's Guest Neal Thompson , director of the Amazon Literary Partnership Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Man...

Author of Think Like Amazon: 50 ½ Ideas To Become a Digital Leader Interview starts at 2:38 and ends at 35:46 "I don't think that part of the story of Amazon and Bezos gets told enough, about how he bet on himself and on the idea of Amazon. They stuck with it when everybody was a naysayer. They stuck with it for a long period of time when the stock was flat and there was no wealth being created. I...

Amazon's Head of Product for Kindle Reading Interview starts at 18:29 and ends at 47:37 News "How creepy is your smart speaker" in The Economist - May 11, 2019 Alexa Guard "Amazon Alexa's New 'Guard' Can Help Keep Your Home Safe While You're Away" by Emily Price at Fortune - May 15, 2019 Interview with Tracy Schultz Upcoming Shows Next Week: John Rossman , author of Think Like Amazon: 50 ½ Ideas t...

Peter Tighe, my cousin who lives in Austin Interview starts at 11:09 and ends at 38:27 News Amazon updates the Fire 7 Tablet - press release on May 16, 2019 Tech Tip Nadene Laird's review of the MobiScribe E Ink tablet Interview with Peter Tighe Aira web site "Aira at SXSW" - March 8, 2019 at Aira website 2019 Interactive Innovation Awards Winners at SXSW Aira Pricing Plans "Get Paid to Help the B...

Editor of The Amazon Chronicles newsletter Interview starts at 16:32 and ends at 49:27 "You can imagine an Amazon without Alexa that is still very successful, but Alexa is a huge key to Amazon's future." Intro Aira glasses for the blind News "Assisted Living Community Gives Every Resident 'Alexa' to Help Keep Their Independence" at CBS13 in Sacramento - May 7, 2019 Eskaton communities Echo Dot on...

Author of Keep Going at Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver Dialog starts at 5:33 and ends at 40:34 "So we all like to think that if we could just change our circumstances we'd be more creative. I could just move to Paris, rent a light-filled studio, maybe buy a beret, fall in with a gang of misfits. Then I could really paint my masterpiece. But we know this is wishful thinking, that everything we...

Graduating senior in mechanical engineering at Saint Louis University Interview starts at 5:57 and ends at 28:32 News "Elizabeth Warren's really simple case for breaking up big tech" by Zack Beauchamp at Vox - April 22, 2019 "Amazon says its private labels are only 1% of its business, but new data shows some are seeing huge growth" by Dennis Green at Business Insider Amazon earnings report at The...

Amazon's Director of Sales & Marketing for Kindle eReaders & Fire Tablets Interview starts at 15:36 and ends at 46:17 "We find that customers--whether it's our entry Kindle, our Paperwhite, our Oasis program--you can find voracious readers on any of those devices, reading many, many books a month and really enjoying their devices and consistently using them every day. " News "The Inner Bezos" by C...

Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research Interview starts at 12:02 and ends at 52:12 "We used Future Fitness to describe this concept, because we wanted to make it clear that it is not measuring a fixed attribute. This is not a personality trait. In fact, we avoid the word 'trait' deliberately, because although there are traits obviously related here, almost everything that we're m...

Author of the Legends of the First Empire and Riyria series Interview starts at 10:01 and ends at 43:57 On writing fantasy: "The world should just build in the background. You should get to know it by experience, not by having to be told in page after page and getting a whole world history, because that's boring. People tend to skim that kind of stuff. I like to try and write so if people skim the...

Founder and CEO of IMDb Interview starts at 14:54 and ends at 52:50 "In 1990, if you'd have said to me 'You know the service that you've just launched, one day you'll be able to interact with that by voice with a device that's this big in your kitchen.' I'd be like, 'Really?' Now it's kind of like an everyday experience." News Fire HD 10 tablet on sale for $100 - a price cut of $50 Kindle Voyage -...

Author of Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad "When I first started out, if you had told me that my books were going to be shelved in Self Help, I would never have believed you. And when I first got started I had no idea there was such a thing as an illustrated gift book. I just didn't know that those genres existed in publishing. The really fun thing for me about doing this...