The Kindle Chronicles

  Director of Deaf Ministries for Baptist International Outreach Interview starts at 12:12 and ends at 40:04 “If I’m getting a book that I’m independently loading on [to a Fire tablet] I tend to do it in the Google Play books and not the Kindle app, mainly because it’s easier to put it on there. ” News “U.S. Trends in Arts Attendance and Literary Reading: 2002-2017” (PDF) - report by the National Endowment for the Arts “NEA Study Finds Small Dip in Adult Reading” by Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly - September 13, 2018 “How to Earn Up to $300,000 Delivering Packages for Amazon” by Zack Friedman at Forbes - September 12, 2018 Tech Tip Humble Bundle Interview with David Peach Digital Book World Digital Book World Hall of Fame Inductees Baptist International Outreach Digital Book World in Nashville October 2-4, 2018 The Daisy Consortium My interview with Bradley Metrock in December, 2017, on TKC 487 OverDrive Humble Bundle O’Reilly Media How to get Google Play on your Fire tablet (Amy Oztan at Laptopmag.

Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group Interview starts at 5:19 and ends at 36:00 “With respect to blockchain, there’s an opportunity to--I wouldn’t necessarily say disrupt--but to create an alternative to the closed ecosystems that Amazon has with Kindle and that other online platforms have and to provide peer-to-peer trading as well as easier e-commerce networks for publishers. It might be a pipe dream, and it might be that Amazon beats us to the punch and creates something that works on blockchain but is more effective for the consumer.” News All-new Fire HD 8 tablet with hands-free Alexa Tech Tip Alexa and Cortana demo Here's How to Use Cortana with Alexa (and Vice Versa) To use Cortana on an Echo device: Open the Alexa app. You can log into your Amazon account here, or create one for free. Enable the Cortana Alexa skill. ... To Use Alexa on a Cortana device: Open Cortana. ... Say "Hey Cortana, open Alexa." Interview with Brian O’Leary Book Industry Study Group Author Earnings Digital Book

  CEO of Publica Interview starts at 7:05 and ends at 42:10 “So a book token in our eReader app is going to be used as part of the cryptographic protection of the book to authorize you to read it by proving that you bought it. There’s another token that we made called the Pebble (PBL). It’s a ticker on exchanges, and if you want to go looking for what the Pebble is doing in the world you would look for the PBL ticker. It’s a token, but it only works as money. It’s not specific to a single book.” News “E Ink starts shipping advanced color epaper” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - August 28, 2018 “Sears’ stock soars as ship-to-store tire deal with Amazon expanded nationwide” by Tomi Kilgore at MarketWatch - August 29, 2018 “New Amazon Go Store Shrinks In Size, A Sign of Hope for Competitors” by Chris Walton at Forbes - August 28, 2018 Tech Tip “Literary Clock Made from E-Reader” by tjaap at Instructables, reported on at Gizmodo Interview with Josef Marc Publica Ethereum Project Morgan James Publishi

  Editorial Director at Thomas & Mercer Interview starts at 16:49 and ends at 43:56 “It’s interesting to think about readers around the world being able to find these books about a chemistry teacher turned homicide detective in Seattle, Washington. And I think that’s the global power of stories. Great stories are something that appeals to everyone. Figuring out the best ways that we can make it that anyone who wants to can pick up these books is really something we’re working toward.” News Good deals on Echo Show, Echo Dot, Echo Plus, Fire TV, and Fire TV Cube Walmart teams up with Kobo eReaders at Markets Insider - August 22, 2018 Rakuten Kobo Walmart announces Walmart eBooks by Rakuten Kobo “Amazon in Running to Acquire Landmark Movie Chain” by Anousha Sakoui et al at Bloomberg - August 15, 2018 “Can Blockchain Disrupt the E-Book Market?” by Bill Rosenblatt at Forbes - August 18, 2018 Publica website “Alexa is Losing Her Edge” by Will Oremus at Slate - August 23, 2018 Tech Tip How Long to Read w

Author of the Tracy Crosswhite and David Sloane mysteries Interview starts at 1:30 and ends at 35:00 “I’d say the primary difference between Thomas & Mercer and my experience with Big 5 publishing is that Thomas & Mercer never stops selling my books. When I’m with a Big 5 publisher, my book would come out and there would be publicity leading up to the book’s release and then there would be publicity for about three weeks after the book’s release.” Robert Dugoni website Robert Dugoni’s author page at Amazon.com A Steep Price Amazon’s First Reads program, formerly known as Kindle First Books published by Thomas & Mercer and Lake Union The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell Tracy Crosswhite and David Sloan series 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 the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Right-click here a

Partnerships Manager for the Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator at Boston Children’s Hospital Interview starts at 7:44 and ends at 28:24 “One of the barriers with voice in general is you don’t know what’s out there. You don’t really know like you do with a phone what app options you have, so it’s a little bit harder for people to find new things. Amazon in general is pretty concerned about that, because they don’t just want people to use it for their three basic cases, being an alarm, music, and maybe re-ordering something.” News AI Deep-Speare project NBC visits with top Alexa exec in Seattle Amazon’s share of U.S. retail spending considered Amazon plans to open its own health clinic for employees Amazon’s support for literary nonprofitrs Tech Tip Fire HD 10 with Show Mode Dock at Amazon - $190 MyScript Nebo note-taking app for Apple Pencil forScore music reader for iPad Interview with Devin Nadar at the Voice of Healthcare Summit Devin Nadar interviewed on the Voice of Healthcare podcast - Ju

  Jim Jones, right, Associate Professor of Management at University of Nebraska at Omaha Interview starts at 9:03 and ends at 40:50 “In the classroom, I really do strongly feel that attention is so critical to actual understanding that the more that you can remove the electronic connection and the focus on inputting electronically or--even worse sometimes I think, is passively taking pictures of the screen--the better.” News Is Amazon working on another phone? https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/7/29/17627314/amazon-phone-studios-jen-salke-rumor How wealthy are Jeff Bezos’s parents? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-31/a-hidden-amazon-fortune-bezos-parents-could-be-worth-billions How Amazon dominates online retail: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-01/amazon-s-the-biggest-in-online-shopping-but-not-always-the-best Demise of the Kindle Voyage: https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/the-kindle-voyage-is-now-discontinued Tech Tip Update for Kindle app for iPhone a

  Links to items mentioned in this 10th Anniversary episode First episode of The Kindle Chronicles (TKC 1) with Baratunde Thurston on July 26, 2008 My interviews with Jeff Bezos in 2012 and 2016 Transcript of my 2012 Bezos interview (via Kindle Nation Daily) Kindle Oasis Interview with Russ Grandinetti, VP Kindle Content, in 2010 TKC 338 with Andy Weir, author of The Martian - January 23, 2015 The Martian (movie) at Prime Video Artemis by Andy Weir TKC 287 with Hugh Howey - January 31, 2014 TKC 191 with Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu First in Line for an iPhone in 2007 (YouTube video) TKC 502 - South by Southwest Interactive 2018 The Colorado Sun at Civil TKC 336 with poet John Ashbery - January 20, 2015 TKC 382 with poet Donald Hall - November 28, 2015 TKC 457 with James McQuivey - May 6, 2017 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 Tim

Author of Departure, The Extinction Files and The Origin Mystery Interview starts at 13:07 and ends at 43:36 “I feel very lucky about the timing. The Kindle had just come out. I would go home from work and read my Kindle every night, and I thought, ‘There’s got to be a bunch of people like me that are doing this that I could write a story for.’ And that’s kinda what I got to.” News “Amazon reportedly had a 300-person conference call to deal with Prime Day glitches” by Rachel Sandler at Business Insider - July 20, 2018 Tech Tip reMarkable website reMarkable tablet at Amazon.com Neo Smart Pen “How to Buy a Kindle as a Gift for More Than One Person” by Saikat Basu at Make Use of - July 12, 2018 “Why You Should Read a Book with a Stranger” by Nick Douglas at Lifehacker - July 19, 2018 Audrey “Monitor Amazon Prices on Your Mac With This Menu Bar App” by Emily Price at Lifehacker4 - July 7, 2018 “How to install a new launcher on Amazon’s Fire tablet” by Chris Meadows at TeleRead - July 7, 2018 PriceAlert for

Author of Somebody’s Daughter Interview starts at 17:04 and ends at 43:26 “I think there’s nothing more terrifying than the realization that someone you thought you knew--whether it’s your spouse, your parent, your sibling, someone you thought you knew really well, someone in your family--has been keeping some kind of secret from you.” Photo by Glen Rose Photography News Kindle Paperwhite will be on sale for $80 ($40 off) on Prime Day. “Amazon is giving Prime members up to $30 in free cash for shopping at Whole Foods this week” by Hayley Peterson at Business Insider - July 10, 2018 “Watch out, retailers. This is just how big Amazon is becoming” by Lauren Thomas and Courtney Reagan at CNBC - July 13, 2018 “Amazon Go Means Goodby Status Quo” by Chris Walton at Forbes - July 6, 2018 Chris Walton’s Omni Talk blog Tech Tip First impressions of Amazon’s Show Mode Dock for Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Interview with David Bell Western Kentucky University MFA program Somebody’s Daughter by David Bell Other novels by David

  Founder & Chief Trailblazer of Retirepreneur Interview starts at 16:01 and ends at 40:10 “I went deep into Kindle and the electronic piece, and then I began pulling back some. I would tell you right now I am right down the middle. I’m a hybrid.” News Amazon’s Prime Day starts July 16th at 3 pm ET “How to Get Primed for Amazon Prime Day” at Wired - July 3, 2018 Delta Trinsic faucet with Alexa control (new product launch on Prime Day) Prime Day “Home Smart Home” sweepstakes “Why Amazon keeps making tablets when the market has been struggling” by Hayley Tsukayama at The Washington Post - July 5, 2018 Amazon’s 2nd Go Store Planned for Seattle (GeekWire) - July 3, 2018 Tech Tip A look back at print technology for annotations Interview with Donna Kastner Retirepreneur Retirepreneur Podcast AARP NextAvenue South By Southwest Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA) Ask More: The Power of Questions to Open Doors, Uncover Solutions, and Spark Change by Frank Sesno Content Martin Luther: The Man

Author of the Deadly Edits and Liss MacCrimmon Mysteries Interview starts at 16:16 and ends at 44:12 “What I try to do is after I get up and have my coffee and my toast, is to come into my office and sit down and write at least one scene, the next scene in the story. I do that usually seven days a week.” Tech Tip My comparison of Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant News Prime Wardrobe Alexa on iPhone and iPad (TechCrunch) Show Mode Dock for Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 10 Interview with Kathy Lynn Emerson Crime & Punctuation (first in the Deadly Edits Series) by Kaitlyn Dunnett The Liss MacCrimmon Mysteries by Kaitlyn Dunnett Murder in a Cornish Alehouse: An Elizabethan Thriller (A Mistress Jaffrey Mystery) by Kathy Lynn Emerson Sisters in Crime Mystery Writers of America “Lack of Oxford comma costs Maine company millions in overtime dispute” by Daniel Victor at The Boston Globe - March 16, 2017 A Who’s Who of Tudor Women Kathy Lynn Emerson’s four-book Diana Spaulding Mysteries series published by Belgrave House

Seattle Music and Arts Pioneer Interview starts at 9:38 and ends at 44:45 “There it was, the [Seattle] head tax. ‘We’re going to do it, this is what we’re going to do. It’s going to address homelessness. We’ll collect the money--we don’t know how we’re going to spend it yet, but we’re going to hit these businesses with this tax.’ That’s just not the way to govern, in my opinion.” News Atul Gawande to head Amazon-Berkshire-JP Morgan health organization, as covered in The New York Times and The Washington Post Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande Amazon Prime Day 2018 will begin July 16, according to a Techradar scoop. TechRadar’s Prime Day hub Supreme Court ruling allowing states to force online retailers to collect sales tax (Bloomberg and Recode) Alexa in hotels Google Home Hub by Amazon Tech Tip Fire TV Cube Interview with Ricardo Frazer Sir Mix-a-Lot (Wikipedia) Sir Mix-a-Lot web site Zaki-Rose Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) Seattle Theatre Group 4Culture “Ama

New Owner of Digital Book World Interview starts at 12:01 and ends at 43:50 “Everything with books orbits  discoverability. That’s the billion-dollar problem. That’s the problem that Apple has never figured out yet. That’s the problem that Amazon has sort of figured out.” News Target dazzles me with service Rebranding Prime Mayday! Mayday! The end of a great customer help service. Tech Tip Alexa on your Apple Watch How to read PDF’s on your Kindle Try “Alexa, play the podcast The Kindle Chronicles” Interview with Bradley Metrock Digital Book World VoiceFirst.FM and This Week in Voice “What to expect from the new Digital Book World” by PG at The Passive Voice - October 19, 2018 Alexa Skill Blueprints and Storyline SoundHound “Walt Mossberg to keynote Digital Book World 2018” - November 26, 2017 WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us by Tim O’Reilly Outro Thanks to Preston Edmands and Lindsay Babayan of Flyte New Media for the all-new design for my show notes page. And to Rich Brooks, Flyte’s found

Author of “The List” in Amazon’s The Real Thing Collection Interview starts at 13:23 and ends at 39:21 “I think we look at the Big Five publishers as being kind of set in their ways and really traditional, but I actually think that everyone is looking to try new things. I think everyone is realizing that just putting out a hardcover in the exact same way isn’t going to always work in a way that they would hope. It’s more that I’m just excited about different ways of approaching storytelling.” (Photo credit: Teresa Flowers) News Echo Look ($199.99) is now available to all U.S. customers (press release) - June 6, 2018 “Want to Read Michael Lewis’s Next Work? You’ll Be Able to Listen to It First” by Alexandra Alter at The New York Times - June 2, 2018 Amazon Fire TV Cube “Amazon’s Fire TV Cube is an Echo, streamking box, and universal remote in one” by Chris Welch at The Verge - June 7, 2018 Interview with Jade Chang “The List” by Jade Chang in the Amazon Original Stories collection, The Real Thing The Wangs V

Senior Editor, The Information Interview starts at 11:36 and ends at 43:50 “[Amazon’s HQ2 decision] will be before the end of the year, unless something radical changes. I don’t think it’s imminent. It’s probably--I’m guessing here--but it’s probably months away. I would guess like towards the end of the summer, early fall. That’s really not based on hard facts but kind of reading between the lines.” News Data Guy’s presentation to the 2018 Science Fiction Writers of America conference “Amazon Publishing Has Signed with Patricia Cornwell for an Exclusive New Series” by Adam Rowe at Forbes - May 29, 2018 “Where Will Amazon HQ2 Go? Ranking Puts Raleigh on Top, Boston at Bottom” by Alexandre Tanzi at Bloomberg - May 30, 2018 Tech Tip My current stylus for Kindle and tablet reading Interview with Nick Wingfield “‘The Information’ hires NY Times’ Wingfield” by Chris Rouh at Taking Biz News - May 15, 2018 The Information Next Week’s Guest Jade Chang, a contributor to the first Amazon Original Stories collectio

Author of the Frank Adversego Thriller Series Interview starts at 11:14 and ends at 35:51 “Alexa’s pretty primitive. I think it’s very concerning from a cybersecurity point of view, because people have already learned how to spoof Alexa. Just a few days ago they came up with the equivalent of a dog whistle-type command that you couldn't hear, but Alexa could. Someone could turn it on and off.” News “An Amazon Echo recorded a family’s conversation, then sent it to a random person in their contacts, report says” by Hamza Shaban at The Washington Post - May 24, 2018 “Don’t Freak Out About That Amazon Alexa Eavesdropping Situation” by Lily Hay Newman at Wired - May 24, 2018 “HBG, Amazon Partner on Narrative Content for Echo Device” by Calvin Reid at Publishers Weekly - May 22, 2018 “Are ebooks dying or thriving? The answer is yes” by Thu-Huong Ha at Quartz - May 13, 2018 Tech Tip Use Household Profiles to Share Your Fire Tablet - Amazon.com Interview with Andrew Updegrove The Frank Adversego Thrillers by Andr

Editor-in-Chief of Good E-Reader Interview starts at 3:45 and ends at 33:51 News “Amazon Go cashier-free store could be headed to SF’s Union Square” by Matier & Ross at The San Francisco Chronicle - May 13, 2018 “The Information hires NY Times’s Wingfield” by Chris Roush at Talking Biz News - May 15, 2018 The Information “Trump personally pushed postmaster general to double rates on Amazon, other firms” by Damian Paletta and Josh Dawsey at The Washington Post  - May 18, 2018 “You’ll soon hear 8 new voices in Amazon Alexa skills” by Michelle Fitzsimmons at Techradar - May 16, 2018 Tech Tip “How to Tag Your Highlights While You Read” by Daniel Doyon at Readwise - May 16, 2018 Readwise.io Interview with Michael Kozlowski Good e-Reader Good e-Reader app store and YouTube channel Good e-Reader store “Storytel e-Reader will launch this summer” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E-Reader - May 16, 2018 Storytel Kobo “How CLEARink technology is going to change e-readers for the better” by Markus Reily at Good E-

Authors of Our Towns: A 100,000-mile Journey Into the Heart of America Interview starts at 9:43 and ends at 39:14 “James Fallows: ‘Through my reportorial lifetime I’ve seen a number crises for the American system, which the U.S. has so far managed to muddle its way through. That does not guarantee continued muddling, but I personally am more heartened than I thought I would be by all this resilience around the country. So Deb, will we make it?’ Deborah Fallows: ‘I’m going to say we’ll make it. It’s the generations that are coming up--it’s their turn to help make this right now.” News “Bezos: A CEO Who Can Write” by Jean-Louis Gassée at Monday Note (Medium) - April 29, 2018 Jeff Bezos’s Letters to Shareholders “Warren Buffett Says He Was Wrong About Google and Amazon” by David Z. Morris at Fortune - May 6, 2018 “Amazon is starting to scan customers’ bodies in the name of online shopping” by Lulu Chang at Fox News - May 7, 2018 Interview with James Fallows and Deborah Fallows Our Towns: A 100,000-mile Journ

Traveler, teller of tales, reviewer of eReaders Interview starts at 15:25 and ends at 41:53 “To be honest, I haven’t met one person outside tech nerds like myself that use it [Kindle’s X-Ray feature.] I very rarely use it. I kind of go ‘Let’s see what this is about.” I think it takes away from the immersion of reading. If I’m interested in something I’ll take a look at it later on, but during the reading process I don’t really want to leave.” News Jeff Bezos interviewed in Berlin by Mathias Dopfner at Business Insider - April 28, 2018 The Post (2017) at Prime Video Personal History by Katharine Graham Tech Tip “Google’s ‘Talk to Books’ Might Have Just Changed Everything” by Bradley Metrock at Digital Book World - April 15, 2018 Talk to Books Content Amazon’s new Prime Book Box program for young readers Interview with Séamus Bellamy Basic Kindle, Paperwhite, and Oasis Kobo Pocket Overdrive for Kobo ReMarkable tablet Seamus Bellamy articles at USA Today’s Reviewed site, BoingBoing, Macworld and PCWorld C