The Kindle Chronicles

Founder and President of Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency Interview starts at 15:12 and ends at 53:38 Note: I will be discussing my Ann Rittenberg interview Saturday March 20, 2021 at 4 pm ET on Clubhouse. If you are a member of Clubhouse, please click here to join me. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links Amazon Care  Long Live the Nook! Mobi, we hardly knew ye “Michael Dorman to Headline ‘Joe Pickett’ Drama Series Ordered by Spectrum Originals” by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski at Deadline - March 18, 2021 Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency Ann’s 2002 talk at Bennington, “The Successful Writer’s Personality” C.J. Box Your First Novel: An Author Agent Team Share the Keys to Achieving Your Dream by Ann Rittenberg and Laura Whitcomb Dennis Lehane Dead by Dawn: A Novel (Mike Bowditch Mysteries, 12) by Paul Doiron - available for pre-order with release on June 29, 2021 Amazon Crossing Dean Koontz’s Jane Hawk series Brad Parks The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North Ameri

Author of How to Train Your Mind: Exploring the Productivity Benefits of Meditation, an Audible Original Interview starts at 15:54 and ends at 55:13 Note: I will be discussing my Chris Bailey interview Saturday March 13, 2021 at 4 pm ET on Clubhouse. If you are a member of Clubhouse, please click here to join me. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links “What Big Tech Antitrust Foe Lina Khan Could Do at the FTC” by Josh Sisco at The Information - March 10, 2021 “Why Tech Breakups Could be  Good for Shareholders” by Martin Peers at The Information - March 11, 2021 “Amazon staffers reportedly fear secret ‘Vesta’ robot will be a pricey flop” by Noah Manskar at the New York Post - March 10, 2021 “Amazon’s Halo fitness tracker is getting Alexa integration” by Dan Seifert at The Verge - March 4, 2021 Amazon Halo Chris Bailey’s website, A Life of Productivity Books by Chris Bailey: The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy (2

Author of Dark Sky, Book 21 in the Joe Pickett series Photo by Dave Neligh Interview starts at 19:40 and ends at 43:22 Note: I will be discussing my C. J. Box interview Saturday March 6, 2021 at 4 pm ET on Clubhouse. If you are a member of Clubhouse, please click here to join me. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links President Biden’s video on union election in Alabama Amazon EU blog on Working at Amazon “When Amazon Raises Its Minimum Wage, Local Companies Follow Suit” by Ben Casselman and Jim Tankersley at The New York Times - March 5, 2021 All-new Echo Show 10 (3rd Generation) Eink.link “Eink.link is a website directory for e-readers” by Mark Frauenfelder at boingboing - March 2, 2021 “How New E Ink Tablets Combine the Best of Kindles and iPads” by Alex Cranz at The Wall Street Journal - March 3, 2021 C.J. Box’s website C.J. Box livestream recording at The Tattered Cover bookstore - March 4, 20212 Obituary of Doug Crowe in the Casper Star-Tribune - December 4,

Author of The Other Emily Interview starts at 23:28 and ends at 55:19 Note: I will be discussing my interview with Dean Koontz Saturday February 27, 2021 at 4 pm ET on Clubhouse. If you are a member of Clubhouse, please click here to join me. Links Pocketbook Inkpad Color 7.8 - at Goodereader.com The all-new Echo Show 10 (3rd Generation) Instagram photo of Sophie listening to my playing guitar How to Train Your Mind by Chris Bailey, an Audible Original The Husband: A Novel by Dean Koontz (published in 2007) Nameless, a six-story collection by Dean Koontz Canine Companions for Independence Upcoming Guests Next week: C J Box, author of Dark Sky, Book 21 in the Joe Pickett series, available for pre-order with release March 2, 2021 Friday, March 12: Chris Bailey, author and narrator of How to Train Your Mind, an Audible Original Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing.

Bloomberg Opinion Columnist & Creator of the Noahpinion blog/newsletter Interview starts at 11:40 and ends at 56:07 Links Note: I will be discussing my interview with Noah Smith Saturday February 20, 2021 at 4 pm ET on Clubhouse. If you are a member of Clubhouse, please click here to join me. I had originally planned the Clubhouse room for 1 p.m. but now realize that’s pretty early for a Saturday morning, especially on the West Coast.  Amazon’s Day 1 Editions products “What’s Amazon’s Secret?” by Jonathan A. Knee at The New York Times - February 13, 2021 Noah Smith’s Noahpinion blog and newsletter Noah Smith on Twitter “It’s not Cancel Culture, it’s Cancel Technology” by Noah Smith at Noahpinion - February 16, 2021 (behind paywall) Brad DeLong’s Grasping Reality blog Gamergate controversy - Wikipedia “Here’s what you need to know about Clubhouse, the invite-only social app” by Tim Marcin at Mashable - January 4, 2021 “Fretting About Inflation May Be Just the Cure We Need” by Noah Smith at Bloomberg Op

A Freshman at The Cambridge School of Weston Interview starts at 14:06 and ends at 49:32 Links “Marty Baron Considers His Time at The Washington Post” by Isaac Chotiner at The New Yorker - February 7, 2021 My previous interview with James on January 31, 2020 for TKC 600 Cambridge Rindge and Latin School The Cambridge School of Weston Terrence Roberts Sumbul Siddiqui, Mayor of Cambridge, Mass. Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.  The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.  Right-click here and then click "S

Principal Product Manager & Worldwide Series Lead at Amazon Interview starts at 13:51 and ends at 52:50 Links Amazon earnings release “What to expect from Amazon’s new CEO Andy Jassy” by Jason Del Rey at Recode - February 3, 2021 Steven Levy on Jeff Bezos announcement - February 5, 2021 “Who is Andy Jassy? 6 things to know about Amazon’s next CEO” by Harry McCracken at Fast Company - February 2, 2021 The Joe Pickett series by C. J. Box The Dark Tower series by Stephen King The Traveler’s Gate trilogy by Will Wight The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson The Expanse series by James S. A. Corey Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson The Milkweed triptych by Ian Tregillis Author Follow updates from Amazon Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa

Sanibel FL Chief of Police Interview starts at 12:47 and ends at 49:04 Links “Amazon Expands Secretive Trucking Program” by Paris Marineau at The Information - January 25, 2021 “One Tale from an Amazon Seller” by Shira Ovide at The New York Times - January 27, 2021 Sanibel Police Department Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr, available for pre-order, with release on February 9, 2021 “Why (and How) Amazon Created the Kindle and Changed the Book Industry Forever” at Entrepreneur - January 27, 2021 Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.  The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podca

CEO of Project Voice Interview starts at 9:38 and ends at 56:32 Links “KindleDrip: Critical vulnerabilities in Amazon Kindle e-reader gave attackers free rein over user accounts” by Jessica Haworth at The Daily Swig - January 21, 2021 “Will Amazon release a Color Kindle in 2021?” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - January 1, 2021 Bradley Metrock’s web site Project Voice Coast to Coast Zoom Video Webinars Digital Book World 2021 “Pete Buttigieg testifies in Senate confirmation hearing for Transportation secretary” at PBS - January 21, 2021 Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.  The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only

Co-authors of “COVID-19 and Book Publishing” Interview starts at 8:35 and ends at 50:03 Links “Connecticut Investigating Amazon’s E-Book Business” by Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg and Dana Mattioli at The Wall Street Journal - January 13, 2021 “When Tech Antitrust Failed: How did a case meant to lower prices instead possibly lead to higher prices?” by Shira Ovide at The New York Times - January 15, 2021 COVID-19 and Book Publishing: Impacts and Insights for 2021 by Thad McIlroy, Cliff Guren, and Steve Sieck available for free download here Panorama Project Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 7:30 am Eastern Time.  The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts.

Humanist Chaplain at Harvard and MIT Interview starts at 3:53 and ends at 42:11 Links Greg Epstein’s  bio page at Harvard and MIT Greg’s Twitter account The Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard and MIT - Click Here to donate “My name is Greg, and I’m addicted to tech” by Greg M. Epstein at The Boston Globe - January 1, 2021 “In Memory of Tom Ferrick: America’s First Atheist Chaplain Died” by Greg M. Epstein at The Huffington Post - January 22, 2014 New York Times obit of the Rev. Peter J. Gomes - March 1, 2011 Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe by Greg Epstein My interview with Bryan Hudson, founding pastor of New Covenant Church in Indianapolis, Indiana - December 25, 2020 Smart Recovery Alcoholics Anonymous Light Phone, reMarkable tablet Amazon Halo Next Week’s Guests Thad McIlroy and Cliff Guren, co-authors (with Steve Sieck) of COVID-19 and Book Publishing: Impacts and Insights for 2021, available for free download here. Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa If you’d like

Author of The Sanibel Island Lighthouse Interview starts at 10:11 and ends at 50:26 Links Typora.io Kindle software update to 5.13.4 The Sanibel Island Lighthouse: A Specialized History of Sanibel Island, Florida 1513-2014 by Charles LeBuff, available at Smashwords Sanybel Light: A Historical Autobiography by Charles LeBuff, available as a Kindle Unlimited selection at Amazon.com Other books by Charles LeBuff available at Amazon J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge in Sanibel, Florida Jay Norwood “Ding” Darling (Wikipedia) “Ding” Darling Wildlife Society YouTube videos featuring Charles LeBuff Sanibel Historical Museum and Village Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s up?” or “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day

Patricia and Bryan Hudson, founding pastor of New Covenant Church Links Christmas greeting from Pastor Bryan and Patricia Hudson  About New Covenant Church Biblical & Social Justice: What Is It?: An Everyday Person’s Guide to Understanding Justice and the Role of the Church in Our Society by Bryan Hudson Bryan's production company, Vision Communications Bryan Hudson’s drone video of the Sanibel Island lighthouse Ecamm Live Trust by Pete Buttigieg Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s up?” or “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 7:30 am Eastern Time.  The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one

Author of Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, and Virtual Worlds: The Impact of Converging Technologies on Authors and the Publishing Industry  Links Articles and podcasts about the future by Joanna Penn: https://www.thecreativepenn.com/future/ “9 Ways That Artificial Intelligence (AI) Will Disrupt Authors and The Publishing Industry” - The Creative Penn podcast - July 1, 2019 GPT-3 (Wikipedia) 1 the Road by Ross Goodwin (Hardcover) Pharmako-AI by K Allado-McDowell - Available for pre-order in the US, with delivery January 4, 2021 The Salvage Crew by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne (written with a number of AI tools, including GPT-2, available via Kindle Unlimited) The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity by Arthur I. Miller Futurebook conference and Wired Live conference Stripe and PayPal The EU Digital Services Act Joanna (JF) Penn’s Payhip store for direct purchases of her books BookFunnel  Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence by James Lovelock The Inevitable: Understanding the 12

Author of the Sanibel Island Mysteries series Interview begins at 16:20 and ends at 45:54 Links “Google is going to convert ebooks to audiobooks” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - December 8, 2020 “Tattered Cover sold to local investment group, making it the U.S.’s largest black-owned bookstore” by John Wenzel at The Denver Post - December 9, 2020 Fintie Folio Case for Kindle Oasis at Amazon.com “Amazon Kindle for iOS can now add a widget to the homescreen” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - November 11, 2020 Jennifer Schiff’s author page at Amazon Jennifer’s books at Shovel & Pail Press MacIntosh Books + Paper, Sanibel FL The Sanibel Sunset Detective Mysteries series (12 books) by Ron Base The Doc Ford Novels (24 books) by Randy Wayne White The Molly Murphy Mysteries(17 books) and The Royal Spyness Series (14 books) by Rhys Bowen The Islands of Sanibel-Captiva Chamber of Commerce Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum in Sanibel Tinder Fella: A novel by Jennifer Schiff A Shell of a Problem

CEO and Co-founder of Astrohaus Interview begins at 16:36 and ends at 52:56 Links “Amazon’s Alexa-powered smart glasses are now more widely available” by Nathan Ingraham at Engadget - November 19, 2020 Echo Frames (2nd edition) r/Kindle Reddit post on new Oasis cover -$25  Fintie Origami Case for All-New Kindle Oasis - $20 Sale: Buy a Freewrite 2nd Gen or a Freewrite Traveler and get a free 1-year extended warranty Markdown Guide Sprinter Online Typewriter from Freewrite NaNoWriMo Next Week’s Guest Jennifer Lonoff Schiff, author of the Sanibel Island Mystery series Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s up?” or “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 7:30 am Eastern Time.  The Kindle Chronicles

VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research Links James McQuivey’s site at Forrester “Learn from 2020 To Create Your Anywhere-Work Strategy” at Forrester.com - November 17, 2020 NPR interview with Nicholas Christakis - October 29, 2020 Ford’s all-electric Mustang “Your Brain Is Not for Thinking” by Lisa Feldman Barrett at The New York Times - November 23, 2020 “A Holocaust Survivor Lifts Neighbors in Dark Times” by Matina Stevis-Gridneff at The New York Times - November 20, 2020 Next Week’s Guest Adam Leeb, CEO and co-founder of Astrohaus, creator of the Freewrite Traveler Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s up?” or “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 7:30 am Eastern Time.  The Kindle

Len, Darlene, and Tess Links Courtyard by Marriott Baked Beans at Bailey’s General Store, Sanibel FL Tesla Model 3 Maho Bay Campgrounds, St. John USVI A Shell of a Problem: A Sanibel Island Mystery by Jennifer Lonoff Schiff (first in a series of six) “Why Sanibel Island is the ‘Sea Shell Capital of the World’” by Charity de Souza at Trips to Discover Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos, with an Introduction by Walter Isaacson Mary Bondurant, Sanibel realtor extraordinaire Sanibel Historical Museum & Village Next Week’s Guest James McQuiviey, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s up?” or “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday,

Senior Maverick at Wired Magazine Interview starts at 5:05 and ends at 45:39 Links Kevin Kelly’s back articles at Wired Magazine Kevin Kelly’s Technium blog Weekly newsletter Recomendo Vanishing Asia book in Instagram  Weekly podcast about the four favorite tools of remarkable people Daily Cool Tools website TRY video channel Kevin Kelly on Twitter Kevin Kelly’s YouTube Channel “AR Will Spark the Next Big Tech Platform--Call It Mirrorworld” by Kevin Kelly at Wired - February 12, 2019 The Long Now Foundation “Confessions of a Phone Bank Captain” by Len Edgerly at Medium - November 5, 2020 The Freewrite Traveler: The Ultimate Distraction-Free Writing Tool On the Road with Alexa If you’d like daily updates during Darlene’s and my Tesla drive from Cambridge, Mass., to Sanibel Island in Florida, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s up?” or “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a

Editor in Chief of Audible Originals Interview starts at 12:17 and ends at 42:35 Links “Bezos sells more than $3 billion worth of Amazon shares” by Annie Palmer at CNBC - November 4, 2020 “Amazon unveils its new electric delivery vans built by Rivian” at The Verge - October 8, 2020 “Long Way Up” available on Apple TV+ Freewrite Traveler - $429 Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa - By Len Edgerly “Confessions of a Phone Bank Captain” by Len Edgerly at Medium - November 5, 2020 Audible Originals Serial Podcast “Actor Jesse Eisenberg Pens and Performs New Audible Original” (Audible press release) - April 9, 2020 “The Social Network” (2010) on Netflix “When You Finish Saving the World” on Audible Words + Music titles at Audible “On Power” by Robert A. Caro, an Audible Original Audible Plus and Audible Premium Plus memberships “Stories of a Lifetime” by Dan Rather, an Audible Original “The Future of Global Convergence” (YouTube video) by Kevin Kelly Pete Buttigieg’s conversation with Jonathan Alte