The Kindle Chronicles

Esmeralda and Richard deTrafford of Geraldton, Australia Interview starts at 16:35 and ends at 40:26 “I don’t see any Amazon drones being launched here [in Australia], and I’m sure CASA [Civil Aviation Safety Authority] would have something to say about that. They're coming up with rules for drones and some of that stuff. So I don’t see that happening here any time soon.” News “Australian retailers rally as Amazon gets cool reception” by Byron Kaye at Reuters - December 4, 2017 “Amazon Australia has changed its webpage title to say it no longer just sells books” by Tony Yoo at Business Insider - December 4, 2017 “Amazon’s Weak Australia Launch is Great for eBay” by Wayne Duggan at U.S. News & World Report - December 7, 2017 “Don’t call it ‘Siri’: Why the wake word should be ‘computer’” by Stephen Harrison at Salon - November 26, 2017 Cozmo by Anki Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark “Amazon Alexa Prize Competition winner takes home $500,000 prize” at DayOne, the

CEO of Score Publishing, producer of Digital Book World 2018 Interview starts at 15:44 and ends at 43:43 “The Echo Show is an incredible glimpse into the future, because the future is going to be words come out of your mouth, and that’s how you engage the computer rather than typing on a QWERTY keyboard or moving a mouse.” News “Amid Takeover Talk, Barnes & Noble Posts $30 million Q2 Loss, Stock Sheds 10%” by Jonathan Ponciano at Forbes - November 30, 2017 “B&N Has Disappointing Second Quarter” by Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly - November 1, 2017 “Barnes & Noble’s sales hit by the curse of Harry Potter” by the AP - December 1, 2017 “To save itself, Barnes & Noble is pivoting to books” by Thu-Huong Ha at Quartz - November 30, 2017 “Why Barnes & Noble Wants Smaller Stores” by Phil Wahba at Fortune - November 30, 2017 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling “No takeover for Barnes and Noble after that earnings bomb” at Yahoo Finance - November 30, 2017 “4 Reasons Barnes and N

Editorial Director, AmazonCrossing Interview starts at 18:00 and ends at 43:42 “One of the magical things about publishing is that when you get together with other people who work in this industry and immediately we share a common bond, this passion for bringing books to readers. It’s not unique. It is really wonderful to stand in a room full of people who are putting everything on the line toward that effort every day and who are excited to hear about the work that we’re doing to bring more diversity to literature through translation.” (Photo by Dean Whitmore) News “How the Kindle was designed through 10 years and 16 generations” by Devin Coldewey at TechCrunch - November 20, 2017 Chris Green on The Kindle Chronicles in April, 2016 Firmware updates page for Amazon devices Tech Tips Fire HD 8 - $30 off for Black Friday/Cyber Monday Fire HD 10 - $50 off for Black Friday/Cyber Monday “YouTube is Back on Amazon Echo Show” by Bret Kinsella at Voicebot - November 21, 2017 Eddie Mikell’s Echo Dot setup for the

Amazon Senior Vice President Interview starts at 20:45 and ends at 43.37 “It was the first time we were building a device, so we had a lot to learn. After that the team and as a company we got better each time. So our second Kindle was developed more quickly, and now as you know that team is launching Kindles and Fire TVs and Fire tablets and Echos and more every year.” News Amazon Key “Amazon will start delivering packages into the homes of Prime members” by Jason Del Rey at Recode - October 25, 2017 “Amazon Key Flaw Could Let Rogue Deliverymen Disable Your Camera” by Andy Greenberg at Wired - November 16, 2017 “Amazon’s Hall of Spinning Knives” by David Gaughran at Let’s Get Digital - October 20, 2017 “Alibaba Singles’ Day Racks Up $1 Billion in Sales in 2 Minutes” at Bloomberg - November 10, 2017 “Amazon’s Prime Day Generates Estimated $1 Billion in Sale” by Spencer Soper at Bloomberg - July 12, 2017 “Alibaba’s Singles Day Sales Hit New Record of $25.3 Billion” by Tiffany Hsu at The New York Times - N

Author of I Wore My Blackest Hair Interview starts at 12:34 and ends at 39:39 “I’m not sure about the future of Amazon [Publishing] in the literary world at large. I do think that for my book it’s been really interesting working with them and being able to answer those questions [about audience] and also to challenge myself more about how do I see this book existing in the world and what kind of spaces do I want it to enter and what kind of people do I want it to encounter. I think that working with Amazon has been interesting in that way, because they do have a very broad reach, and a very established way of doing things that for me has given a lot of structure to thinking about the book being out in the world.” News Brad Stone interviewed on Wall Street Journal Moneybeat Book Club podcast - November 4, 2017 “Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos: “Told You I’m a Tech Buff” at TMZ - July 14, 2017 “Kindle with your kale? Amazon to sell electronic devices in Whole Foods stores” by Matt Day at The Seattle Times - November 9

Author of The Quantum Spy Interview starts at 12:12 and ends at 34:00 “Jeff Bezos has been a great owner for The Post. He invested in our business. He has generally stayed away and let the editors and our publisher, Fred Ryan, run the business. He intervenes only occasionally. The first meeting he had when he came to The Post, he said, ‘I don’t know what’s going to work, but I want to lengthen the runway, so you have more time to experiment and take off.’ And we have begun to take off. We’re not rolling in money, but The Post is profitable again. I wondered if I’d ever see that. Our web traffic keeps exploding.” News All-New Kindle Oasis ships on Halloween “All-New Kindle Oasis survives ocean dunking” by David Rothman at TeleRead - October 31, 2017 “Is the Kindle Oasis Really Worth It?” - my video review of the original Oasis in 2016 Interview with David Ignatius The Quantum Spy by David Ignatius Other novels by David Ignatius at Amazon.com Body of Lies, the 2008 movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell

Kindle Creative Director Seth Micarelli, left, and Mike Torres, Kindle director of product management and design Amazon announces all-new Kindle app (press release) - October 24, 2017 All-New Kindle Oasis Kindle Select, Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) Kindle Unlimited and Prime Reading Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari Next Week’s Guest David Ignatius, Washington Post columnist and author of The Quantum Spy: A Thriller, available for pre-order with delivery November 7, 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 Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Author of A Beautiful Work in Progress Interview starts at 18:20 and ends at 43:17 “Whatever kind of mindset they’re stuck in about whether it’s weight loss or about whether or not you should be out there running in your big body, because maybe you’re going to hurt your knees or your back. You don’t know. You don’t know me. I don’t know you. You do your run, I do my run. And then we’ll all be happy.” News “As Amazon’s deadline for HQ2 bids closes, speculation on winner heats up” by Matt Day at The Seattle Times - October 19, 2017 “Where Amazon’s Next Headquarters Should Go” by Mark Zandi and Adam Ozimek at Moody’s Analytics - October 12, 2017 “Amazon is Most Likely To Build Its Second Headquarters In One Of These Five Cities” by Marcia Layton Turner at Forbes - October 19, 2017 “Boston Pushes Talent and Education in Amazon HQ2 Bid” by Zeninjor Enwemeka at WBUR - October 20, 2017 The Quantum Spy: A Thriller by David Ignatius - available for pre-order, delivered November 7, 2017 Tech Tip New Kindle Oasis (8

Arthur van Rest, left, GM Kindle Device & Accessories at Amazon, and Hany Ghali, Senior Product Manager, Kindle at Amazon Lab126 Interviews Arthur van Rest and Hany Ghali at product demo October 5, 2017 in New York City: Starts at 7:22 and ends at 9:48 Hany Ghali phone/skype interview from Sunnyvale, California, on October 10, 2017: Starts at 20:26 and ends at 41:06 To purchase an all-new Kindle Oasis, please consider starting at The Kindle Chronicles home page and clicking on the Amazon ad at the upper right. That will generate an Amazon Associates commission that supports my show, and your cost will be the same. Thanks! 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!

Author of Point and Shoot Nature Photography Interview starts at 10:55 and ends at 40:30 “Each of us sees the beauty around us and the meaning and the pathos and the feeling that happens around us. And the more we share it one person to another, the more we realize we’re really all the same. We really share an experience of life on the earth that is not just mine or yours but that belongs to us all.” News “Europe has ordered Amazon to pay nearly $300 million in back taxes” by Jason Del Rey and Tony Romm at recode - October 4, 2017 “Amazon is Testing Its Own Delivery Service to Rival FedEx and UPS” by Spencer Soper at Bloomberg - October 5, 2017 The Everything Store by Brad Stone Big savings on Kindles Tech Tip “Echo devices can now call US, Canada, and Mexico numbers for free--No extra hardware necessary” at AFTnews - September 30, 2017 Interview with Stephen Ingraham Point and Shoot Nature Photography by Stephen Ingraham Pic for Today by Stephen Ingraham Point and Shoot Nature Photographer blog Zeiss Kin

VP & Executive Editor at the Harper Division of HarperCollins Interview starts at 21:54 and ends at 44:14 “I think publishers have some ideas about how Amazon feels about books, and I think Amazon has ideas about how little publishers about the business of books. And I think that they’re both wrong.” News “Introducing the Next Generation of Echo” - Amazon press release September 27, 2017 All-new Echo - $100 Echo Plus - $150 Echo Spot - $130 Echo Connect - $35 All-new Fire TV - $70 Echo Buttons (click at Alexa Gadgets page to be notified) Interview with Sara Nelson “Sara Nelson Heading to HarperCollins” at Publishers Weekly - June 28, 2017 Sara Nelson on TKC 419 - August 12, 2016 Omnivoracious, The Amazon Book Review Mockingbird Songs: My Friendship with Harper Lee by Wayne Flynt A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick “Making the List” by Sara Nelson at Publishers Weekly - December 22, 2008 (Includes rave mention of A Reliable Wife) The Magnificent Esme Wells: A Novel by Adrienne Sharp - Available for pre-

CEO of The Jillian Group Interview starts at 12:16 and ends at 35:00 “When you build relationships for the sake of relationships, amazing things can happen. Your soil becomes so rich that what can grow and harvest is well beyond what you ever could have planted if you had known.” News Amazon press release announcing all-new Fire HD 10 - September 19, 2017 “Amazon is working on smart glasses to house Alexa AI, says FT” by Natasha Lomas at TechCrunch - September 20, 2017 “Why Alexa is on track to lose the Smart Home Assistant War” by Phil Hawthorne - September 16, 2017 “Amazon has 76% smart home speaker U.S. market share as Echo unit sales reach 15M, new study finds” by Taylor Soper at GeekWire - September 18, 2017 “Amazon Isn’t Just Spending Big Bucks on Groceries” by Justin Fox at Bloomberg - June 16, 2017 Tech Tip “You can now search your library’s e-book collection straight from Google” by Sasha Lekach at Mashable - September 19, 2017 Interview with Jillian Vorce The Jillian Group 20/20 Mind Sight: Re

Vice President, Amazon Books stores Interview starts at 10:48 and ends at 42:54 “We would like people who want physical books to walk out with a book, but if you walk out of our store, and you found three things to put on your wish list and two books that you want to buy for your Kindle, then we’re very, very happy.” Intro Agents of Change conference in Portland, Maine September 15, 2017 hosted by Rich Brooks, founder of Flyte New Media News “Dear Amazon, We Picked Your New Headquarters for You” by Emily Badger, Quoctrung Bui and Claire Cain Miller at The New York Times - September 9, 2017 “Amazon Weighs Boston in Search for Second Headquarters” by Spencer Soper at Bloomberg - September 12, 2017 “Amazon Music Focusing on Alexa, Echo to Stand Out Amid Streaming Competition” by Andrew Wallenstein at Variety - September 7, 2017 “Amazon’s ‘1-Click’ patent expires today…” by Monica Nickelsburg at GeekWire - September 11, 2017 “Amazon’s 1-Click Patent is About to Expire. What’s the Big Deal?” By Julia Dewitt a

Executive Editor at Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group Interview starts at13:18 and ends at 42:00 “Books these days as they are produced are pretty nice little objects. And then there are so many different ways that can work. You can read a book on your phone--a ton of people read books on their phones. They read them on the web, they read them on an eReader of choice--they can read E Ink, they can read on something like a tablet with the iPad. None of that process seems messed up to me. There’s a lot of consumer choice, and there are a lot of different ways to read the same book.” News Amazon seeks proposals for its second headquarters - September 7, 2017 “Amazon Wants A Second HQ--and Walsh Says Boston Will be ‘Laser Focused’ On Bidding” by Zeninjor Enwemeka at WBUR - September 7, 2017 “Few Cities Could Accommodate Amazon’s New Headquarters” by Conor Sen at Bloomberg - September 7, 2017 “Amazon’s second headquarters: These cities are contenders” by Irina Ivanova at CBS Moneywatch - September 7, 2017

Author of George & Lizzie Interview starts at 14:30 and ends at 44:06 “Because of their childhoods I think they approach the world in such different ways--George the pathological optimist and Lizzie the person who knows the glass is totally empty and that you’re just imagining any water. I don’t know what keeps any two people together in a marriage, and I’ve been married 51 years!” News “‘Cortana, Open Alexa,’ Amazon Says. And Microsoft Agrees.” by Nick Wingfield at The New York Times - August 30, 2017 Amazon press release - August 30, 2017 Amazon announces Alexa Prize Finalists “Alexa, Play My Music Everywhere” - Amazon release August 29, 2017 Interview with Nancy Pearl George & Lizzie: A Novel by Nancy Pearl (available for pre-order with release on September 5, 2017) Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Reason (2003) by Nancy Pearl “‘I Want the Pages to Turn’: Librarian Nancy Pearl’s Summer Reading List” at National Public Radio’s Morning Edition - June 29, 2017 The Bean Tre

Links Wyoming Eclipse Festival Vertical Horizons, co-founded by Howard Wishnow Celestron EclipSmart binoculars NASA’s Eclipse web site My 360 video of the eclipse - Part 1 and Part 2 Next Week’s Guest Nancy Pearl, author of George & Lizzie, her debut novel scheduled for release on September 5, 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 Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Co-founder and CEO of ComiXology Interview starts at 9:40 and ends at 38:47 “When we made the business plan 10 years ago--it’s hard to remember this, but iPhones didn’t exist. None of us had any idea we were going to be heading into this world of carrying big pieces of glass around in our pockets or in our bags that would be so amazing for image-based reading.” News “L.L. Bean Beats Amazon.com, Once Again, For Best Customer Service” by Pam Goodfellow at Forbes - August 3, 2017 “Amazon Echo multiroom audio not far off, report says” by Megan Wollerton at CNET - August 8, 2017 “Need Something Extra Fast? Amazon Instant Pickup Launches This Week” - Amazon press release August 15, 2017 “Amazon’s Instant Pickup Service Shows Clearly Who Jeff Bezos is Targeting Next” by Eric Jhonsa at TheStreet - August 15, 2017 “Kindle Oasis in Short Supply, New Model Coming Soon?” at The eBook Reader - August 10, 2017 Tech Tip Fire HD 8 - $80 at Amazon.com Interview with David Steinberger ComiXology Guided View Native comics

Amazon’s former Director of Author and Publishing Relations Interview starts at 0:22 and ends at 44:20 “I do think that there is an incredible level of smart, energetic, ambitious people at Amazon working in books. That’s an incredible asset. I’m optimistic that Amazon will continue to be able to hold its own. I also see great opportunity for others. I have a very optimistic view of the future of storytelling. I think it’s a great time to be a storyteller. You just have to be smart about the different ways you reach an audience.” Interview with Jon P. Fine OptiQly, where Jon Fine serves as General Counsel Brilliance Audio Amazon Literary Partnership E.F. Hutton ad from the late 1970s Audible Creation Exchange (ACX) “Seattle’s Finest: Jon Fine is Leaving Amazon” by Porter Anderson at Thought Catalog - October 2, 2014 Next Week’s Guest David Steinberger, co-founder and CEO of ComiXology, the digital comics and graphic novel retailer purchased three years ago by Amazon. Music for my podcast is from an original

Author of The Sky Below Interview starts at 14:15 and ends at 41:36 “My goal with this book is to show people that it’s important to have high, lofty dreams, but it’s even more important to then have the vision and the resolve to make them come true.” News “Is Amazon getting too big?” by Steven Pearlstein at The Washington Post - July 28, 2017 “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox” by Lina M. Khan at the Yale Law Journal - January, 2017 “Amazon’s Jobs Fair Sends Clear Message: Now Hiring Thousands” by Noam Scheiber and Nick Wingfield at The New York Times - August 2, 2017 Tech Tip Amazon instructions for using your Alexa device to control your Fire TV Interview with Scott Parazynski The Sky Below: A True Story of Summits, Space, and Speed by Scott Parazynski Scott Parazynski on CBS This Morning - July 31, 2017 Upcoming Guests Jon Fine, strategist for digital and traditional media organizations David Steinberger, co-founder and CEO of ComiXology Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition nam

Author of The Deepest Grave (Fiona Griffiths Crime Thriller Series Book 6) Interview starts at 12:26 and ends at 42:13 “The Big 5 publishers do have a model of ‘We will buy your book for life plus 70 years. In other words, I will get my books back about the time Bernie Madoff gets out of jail.” News Amazon earnings release - July 27, 2017   Earnings coverage by Recode and Publishers Weekly Inside Edge Amazon Video original series in India “This is Amazon’s Next Big Target” by CNBC - July 26, 2017 “Books are back, and that’s a very bad thing” by Graham Cooke at finder.com.au “For 4 Seattle women called Alexa, it’s funny, frustrating to share name with Amazon’s device” by William Robert Ferrer at The Seattle Times - July 21, 2017 Scott Galloway: Amazon will be broken up (video) - July 13, 2017 “Trump Accuses Washington Post of being lobbyist weapon for Amazon” by Jacqueline Thomsen at USA Today - July 24, 2017 Tech Tip Standard Ebooks Interview with Harry Bingham The Deepest Grave by Harry Bingham Books