The Kindle Chronicles

Author of Facebook: The Inside Story Links Facebook: The Inside Story by Steven Levy In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy (2011) “‘Facebook: The Inside Story’ author Steven Levy on how the company compares to Apple and Google” by Casey Newton at The Verge - February 26, 2020 “The Social Network” - 2010 movie on Prime Video “The Alternate Universe Where Facebook Bought Twitter” by Steven Levy at Wired - March 6, 2020 Click here to for access to Steven Levy’s Plaintext weekly newsletter, bundled with a great price for Print + Digital Access to Wired: 1 year for $5. Lawrence Lessig “South By Southwest Has Been Canceled Because of the Coronavirus” by Aaron Mak at Slate - March 6, 2020 Statement by SXSW Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Executive Director of Digital Book World Links “Amazon’s top spokesman: We want to question Trump over ‘blatant political interference’ in Pentagon cloud contract decision” by Annie Palmer at CNBC - February 12, 2020 “Why Bernie Sanders Praised Amazon” by Jay Carney at The New York Times - February 10, 2010 “Amazon Kindle to include more options in the font menu” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - February 19, 2020 Kindle software updates Bradley Metrock This Week in Voice podcast Digital Book World - September 14-15, 2020, in Nashville American Library Association #eBooksForAll petition campaign “Digital Book World Bans Macmillan Employees in Response to Library Embargo” by Bradley Metrock at Digital Book World blog - January 28, 2020 “ALA Midwinter 2020: Macmillan CEO John Sargent, Librarians Spar Over E-Book Embargo” by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - January 26, 2020 “Book Club” column by Ron Charles mentioning DBW ban on Macmillan employees at The Washington Post  Jennifer N. Baker V

Author of Pandemic and other thrillers Links A G Riddle’s books at Amazon.com Next Week’s Guest Bradley Metrock, director of Digital Book World Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” For my political podcast, please check out Edge Cast. Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Technical Editor at Microwave Journal Interview begins at 5:40 and ends at 47:00 Links Readwise app for Kindle highlights   Articles by Gary Lerude at Microwave Journal “Introducing Amazon Sidewalk” at The Amazon Blog - September 27, 2020 Gary’s Podcast Recommendations: The Daily, Post Reports, The Daily 202, On Being, Secular Buddhism, Timber Hawkeye My Asynchronous Dialog with Austin Kleon at The Kindle Chronicles - May 4, 2019 The Pomodoro Technique Mobile World Congress 2020 canceled Pandemic (The Extinction Files Book 1) by A. G. Riddle My most recent interview with A. G. Riddle - March 7, 2019 Next Week’s Guest A G Riddle  Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” For my political podcast, please check out Edge Cast. Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes Interview begins at 20:20 and ends at 47:20 Links “Digital Book World Bans Macmillan Employees in Response to Library Embargo” by Bradley Metrock at Digital Book World website - January 28, 2020 American Library Association launches campaign against e-book embargo - September 11, 2020 Report on ALA Midwinter 2020 meeting by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - January 26, 2020 Washington Post coverage of Digital Book World ban of Macmillan eBooks For All petition “How to Make Your iPhone or iPad Read Kindle Books Aloud to you” by Reagan Rose at Redeeming Productivity  Library Extension for Chrome and Firefox via Kevin Kelly at Recommendo Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes by Kathleen West 5 a.m. Writers Club My January 18, 2020 interview with Joanna Penn, creator of The Creative Penn blog and podcast “Finding the Perfect Comp” by Kathleen West at The Debutante Ball - January 21, 2020 Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty Kathleen West’s book tour dates

James and his Bengal cat, Serena Links Arlington Street Church, Boston Sumbul Siddiqui, Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins Internment by Samira Ahmed Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” Next Week’s Guest Kathleen West, author of Minor Dramas and other Catastrophes - available for pre-order with delivery February 4, 2020 For my political podcast, please check out Edge Cast. Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Your host with Stacey Helbig and Elissa Mekel  Links Staples Connect Staples Connect grand opening invitation February 5, 2020 Staples Studio RODEcaster Pro Podcast Production Studio Pro Audio Design Thomas G. Stemberg (1949 - 2015), founder of Staples iHeart Radio We Edit Podcasts Everything Coworking podcast with Jamie Russo Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” For my political podcast, please check out Edge Cast. Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Founder of The Creative Penn and author of Audio for Authors  Links Audio for Authors: Audiobooks, Podcasting, and Voice Technologies (Books for Writers Book 11) by Joanna Penn - Available for pre-order with delivery March 6, 2020 Books by Joanna Penn Books by J. F. Penn The Creative Penn podcast Welcome to Night Vale Digital Book World - September 14-15, 2020 in Nashville Bradley Metrock World War Z by Max Brooks Audible and storytel Audiobooks by Steven Erikson BookBub Smashwords ACX Kobo Writing Life Kindle Unlimited and KDP Select International Thriller Writers 2020 awards - including 2017 nomination of Destroyer of Worlds by J. F. Penn in “Best E-Book Original Novel” category Books by James Scott Bell The Books and Travel Podcast by Joanna Penn Patreon Click here to sign up for Joanna Penn’s free Author 2.0 Blueprint and email mini-course Joanna Penn’s full course catalogue Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by

Author of Eightysomethings: A Practical Guide to Letting Go, Aging Well, and Finding Unexpected Happiness  Links Books by Katharine Esty: Eightysomethings: A Practical Guide to Letting Go, Aging Well, and Finding Unexpected Happiness - 2019 Twenty-Seven Dollars and a Dream: How Muhammad Yunus Changed the World and What It Cost Him - 2014 Workplace Diversity: A Manager’s Guide to Solving Problems and Turning Diversity into a Competitive Advantage (Paperback only) - 1995 The Gypsies: Wanderers in Time (Hardcover only) - 1969 Skyhorse Publishing Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of “I Met Jeff Bezos in 1995 When He Had a Lame-Looking Website Called Amazon”  Interview starts at 11:10 and ends at 50:02 “He came in a bit shy and slightly nervous--febrile, slightly feverish is how I described him, and maybe he was. We got right down to business. We talked for a couple of minutes, and he told me about this business and the packing of the books and so on, and how there was this opportunity to sell books. He was already talking about being able to have a better margin, because there were no bricks and mortar. That was his fundamental shaping of it, of what his business was designed to do. We talked for a while. He told me a little bit about his background, and then he showed me his website.”   Links Amazon holiday press release - December 26, 2019 Craig Stoltz at LinkedIn “I Met Jeff Bezos in 1995 When He Had a Lame-Looking Website Called Amazon” by Craig Stoltz at Washingtonian - December 27, 2019 HealthCare.gov Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the

Retired Science Editor of The Christian Science Monitor Links Cowan honored with Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) - May 31, 2001 Karl Taylor Compton, president of MIT 1930-1948 Agnes de Mille (1905-1993) An Actor Prepares by Constantin Stanislavsky Prince Louis de Broglie, one of the founders of quantum physics Edward Teller, known as “the father of the hydrogen bomb” “A Long-ago moment with Edward Teller” by Robert C. Cowen at The Christian Science Monitor - September 12, 2003 Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

At the Acropolis with Sonja and Anthony Recorded on Crete December 18, 2019 Uploaded from Cambridge December 20, 2019

We are in Malta today. I created and uploaded this episode using my iPhone, which led to numerous unforeseen challenges. I hope you will be able to listen to it.  

--Photo by John Earle Author of Genesis Interview starts at 17:02 and ends at 43:00 Links “Hey Google, play me the news”  by Liz Gannes at Google’s blog Robin Cook TEDx talk (YouTube) at his alma mater, Wesleyan University  - September 17, 2019 Books by Robin Cook: Coma, Cell, Pandemic, Marker CRISPR-Cas9 Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Director, Books PR & Editorial at Amazon.com Interview starts at 11:47 and ends at 48:10 “We really want to choose books that we feel like customers will love or--in a non-pushy way--should love.” Links “Alexa’s voice can now express disappointment and excitement” by Jay Peters at The Verge - November 26, 2019 Alexa Skills Kit Blog post on new Emotions and Speaking styles - November 26, 2019 Sarah Gelman’s posts at The Amazon Book Review Amazon’s Best Books of 2019 (amazon.com/bestbooks2019) South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations by Sean Brock The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me by Adrienne Brodeur Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac They Called Us Enemy by George Takei Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson Will the Cat Eat My Eyeballs: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty The Mosqui

Amazon’s General Manager of Kindle Unlimited and Prime Reading “There are so many types of readers. There are so many reasons, and so what we’re just trying to do is make a service that is valuable and compelling, to delight readers.” Links “Amazon Has Become America’s CEO Factory” by Dana Mattioli at The Wall Street Journal - November 20, 2019 “Amazon’s smart speakers outship Google’s by almost triple, Canalys says” by Corinne Reichert at CNET - November 13, 2019 Amazon Black Friday Countdown deals Amazon press release on Black Friday deals - November 18, 2019 Kindle Unlimited storefront Click here to see your Kindle Unlimited subscription The Weight of Ink and Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story by Rachel Kadish The Forward Amazon Original Stories series, available on Kindle Unlimited Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays by Joan Didion Next Week’s Guest:  Sarah Gelman, Director of Books PR and Editorial at Amazon, giving an overview of the Best Books of 2019 Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash br

Author of the new short story collection, Nameless “Once I came to that decision and came to Amazon, it has been so far one of the finest experiences I’ve ever had, working with the people in Amazon Original Stories and Amazon Publishing at Thomas & Mercer. Writers can’t ask for more supportive, more interesting people to work with. So it turned out to be the right decision.” Links DeanKoontz.com Dean Koontz’s author page at Amazon.com The Nameless short story collection at Amazon Devoted by Dean Koontz - Available for pre-order with delivery March 31, 2020 Ricochet Joe by Dean Koontz My previous interview with Dean Koontz on January 13, 2018 - TKC 493 Next Week’s Guest:  Natalia Montuori, GM Kindle Unlimited and Prime Reading at Amazon Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author, Editor, Professor & Speaker Links “The Best Amazon early Black Friday deals: Here’s what’s hot” by Rick Broida at CNET - November 7, 2019 Jane Friedman’s blog and newsletters, Electric Speed (free) and The Hot Sheet (paid subscription) How to Reform Capitalism by The School of Life The Business of Being a Writer by Jane Friedman Next Week’s Guest:  Dean Koontz, author of the six-story Nameless series that will be released by Amazon Publishing on November 12, 2019 Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

The Yorkie Claire June 7, 2005 - October 24, 2019 Links Kindle Kids Edition - $110 at Amazon.com YouTube video of Claire picking John Aga as the winning entry for a Fire Tablet nine years ago Instagram photos of our Yorkie Claire, RIP  All the Dogs of My Life by Elizabeth Von Arnim Video of Claire chasing a ball on Christmas, 2015 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! This episode is dedicated to the memory of our Yorkie Claire, peacefully departed from this world here in Maine yesterday.  Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Director, Kids and Family at Amazon Interview starts at 13:20 and ends at 40:57 Links Amazon Go store locations “Report of Amazon Go Coming to Airports Is a Sign of Far Greater Change to Come” by Chris Walton at Forbes - October 10, 2-019 Amazon’s Leadership Principles Kindle Kids Edition Rick Riordan author’s page at Amazon.com Primed Podcast from KUOW in Seattle Land of the Giants podcast from Vox “Introducing the News app on Fire TV” by Puneet Puri at the Fire TV blog - October 22, 2019 The Daily Recount Instagram photos of our Yorkie Claire, RIP 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! This episode is dedicated to the memory of our Yorkie Claire, peacefully departed from this world here in Maine yesterday.  Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing