The Kindle Chronicles

Retired Elementary School Teacher in Upton, Wyoming Interview starts at 5:31 and ends at 33:07 Links “Millions of Amazon Echo and Kindle Devices Affected by WiFi Bug” by Lawrence Abrams at Bleeping Computer - October 17, 2019 Christi Ross Crain interviewed as Teacher of the Year in 2012 (YouTube) Upton, Wyoming Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence by Bill O’Reilly Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel and Reamde: A Novel by Neal Stephenson Neal Stephenson’s author page at Amazon.comMusic 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! 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

Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research Interview starts at 13:04 and ends at 51:49 “We don’t want to be constantly wired. We don’t want brain implants. We just want the ability to get information and communication when we need it and the way we need it. Amazon is essentially saying, ‘in your car, on your ear, in your pocket? Sure. In your environment, your home. We’re just going to thread all this together, so that you can use it when you need it, and it just disappears in the background when you don’t.’” Links “Is Amazon Unstoppable?” by Charles Duhigg at The New Yorker - October 10, 2019 “Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan” by Franklin Foer at The Atlantic - November, 2019 Amazon Fire HD 10 (2019) vs. Fire HD 10 (2017) by Simon Hill at Digital Trends - October 7, 2019 All-new Kindle Kids Edition ($110) at Amazon.com - Available October 30, 2019 Kindle with Audible Narration books List of 10,000+ Whispersync for Voice-enabled books for children ages 9-12 IndieWire review of “Jexi” - October 11,

Author of The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know Interview starts at 15:54 and ends at 49:25 Links LEGOLAND in Boston “Why You should Remove All Color on Your iPhone” (YouTube) by All I Talk Is Tech - October 27, 2018 Echo Glow - $30 “Why you may have to wait longer to check out an e-book from your local library” by Jenny McGrath at Digital Trends - September 13, 2019 Macmillan CEO John Sargent’s letter announcing change in eBook sales to public libraries - July 25, 2019 “Why Angry Librarians Are Going to War with Publishers over E-Books” by Heather Schwedel at Slate - September 11, 2019 The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know by Mike Shatzkin and Robert Paris Riger The Shatzkin Files Mike Shatzkin’s essays about climate change and other topics at Medium “Cheap Words: Amazon is good for customers. But is it good for books?” by George Packer at The New Yorker - February 4, 2014 Books recommended by Mike Shatzkin: Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee Serious Eater:

Your Host in front of the Spheres at Amazon in Seattle Amazon press releases related to media briefing on September 26, 2019: 8 New Echo Devices Devices and Services for Smart Home My Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa - Enable it, then ask "Alexa, what's new?" to hear my daily audio journal on your Echo devices. Next week's guest: Mike Shatzkin 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 and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.  

Host of the Solopreneur Hour Podcast Links Solopreneur Hour Podcast The Art of the Interview Course Agents of Change conference in Portland, Maine Flyte New Media, founded by Rich Brooks Jen Lehner Media Jen Lehner’s Alexa Flash Briefing course Soundup Next Week’s Show Mike Shatzkin, creator of The Shatzkin Files 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 and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Director of Deaf Ministries, Baptist International Outreach Note: I am very grateful to David Peach for covering Digital Book World on his own for The Kindle Chronicles this year, which enabled me to spend important time with my family.  Links Baptist International Outreach Joshua Tallent of Firebrand Technologies Eda Gimenez of Buncee Paul Frank of The Bloom Library American Library Association’s take on the Macmillan issue:  Buncee Dave Gunn of the DAISY Consortium Bloom Library National Book Foundation Next Week’s Show Agents of Change conference in Portland, Maine 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 and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

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 Good E Reader - August 31,2019 Digital Book World 2019 tickets sold out in Nashville Tech Tips Fintie Slimshell Case for All-New Kindle Oasis - $10 at Amazon.com Prime Reload “Alexa Can Help You Find Lost Items Around Your House” by Brendan Hesse at Lifehacker 0- August 30, 2019 Interview with Brad Stone Books by Brad Stone: The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon and The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World Comments Sticky Notes podcast Next Week’s Show David Peach will be covering for me at Digital Book World 2019 Music for my podcast

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 the Kindle.” News “Aggressive Amazon tactic pushes you to consider its own brand before you click ‘buy’” by Jay Greene at The Washington Post - August 28, 2019 Tech Tip read.amazon.com/notebook “External drive support in iOS 13 makes it possible to easily share files with a Kindle” by Chance Miller at 9To5Mac - June 18, 2019 Interview with Bryan Person My conversation with Bryan Person on TKC 89 - April 2, 2010 Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad by Austin Kleon Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight (Audiobook) TKC 534: My interview with Power Reader Simon Eskioldsen -

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 the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Outro Music for this episode is performed by my niece Fran Betlyon.  Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

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 Amazon Publishing: Will Other Authors Follow?” by Porter Anderson at Publishing Perspectives - July 22, 2019 Interview with Julia Sommerfeld Amazon Original Stories Ricochet Joe by Dean Koontz My interview with Dean Koontz for TKC 493 on January 13, 2018 “Dean Koontz Signs New Five-Book Deal with Amazon Publishing” - Amazon press release July 22, 2019 Dean Koontz’s author page at Amazon.com Beautiful Ruins: A Novel by Jess Walter The One Collection including “Parable” by Jess Walter and “Speed Grieving” by Allison Ellis Daisy Jones & The Six: A Novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins

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 Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.  Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.    

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.  Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

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, The Solar War, and The Lost Colony (available for pre-order, to be released on November 5, 2019) Recursion: A Novel and Dark Matter by Blake Crouch A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World: A Novel by C. A. Fletcher The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel by Jodie Archer and Matthew L. Jockers Hit Lit: Cracking the Code of the Twentieth Century’s Biggest Bestsellers by James W. Hall Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Herman Melville My previous interviews with A. G. Riddle on July 21, 2018 and March 7, 2019 Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't

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 Florida and Old Orchard Beach, Maine Books by Paul Doiron Robert Parker’s Author Page at Amazon.com Robert Parker’s Jesse Stone series Kindle Unlimited J. Box’s Author Page at Amazon.com Amy Stevens of Barre, VT: Only One Life: A Novel by Ashley Farley Stacey Lamberti of Barre, VT: Christian romance authors Karen Kingsbury and Kimberly Rae Jordan Debbie from Montreal: Kobo Aura Edition 2 Books by Vince Flynn, Daniel Silva, Alex Berenson, Brad Thor, Brad Taylor, and James Patterson Becoming by Michelle Obama Adam from Oxford, MA: The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle Book 1) by Patrick Rothfuss Nicole from Oxf

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 CEO Anjali Sud Tech Tip Interview with Bradley Metrock Digital Book World 2019 in Nashville September 10-12, 2019 at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel Collaborative Knowledge Foundation Bloom Library Simon & Schuster’s Stephen King Library Mike Shatzkin’s blog Samsung’s Bixby 2.0 This Week in Voice podcast Amazon’s Alexa Conversations The Voice of Healthcare Summit August 5-6 at Harvard Medical School, Boston Lifepod Project Voice January 13-20, 2020 in Chattanooga  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 "Variat

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 at CNET - July 5, 2019 Amazon Prime Day is July 15 and 16! Interview with Lauren Mechling How Could She: A Novel Slate Political Gabfest WTF Podcast with Marc Maron 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 and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

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 visit Amazon.com/bestbookssofar. ”  Interview with Chris Schluep and Erin Kodicek Amazon’s Best Books of the Year So Far Press release announcing best books of the year so far - June 18, 2019 Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover (Amazon’s best book of the year for 2018) Erin Kodicek’s Amazon Book Review podcast interview with Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls, the best book of the year so far for 2019 The Signature of All Things: A Novel by Elizabeth Gilbert The Parisian by Isabella Hammad - 576 pages! Next Week’s Guest Lauren Mechling, author of How Could She? Music for my podcast is from an original Theloniu

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 Amazon fulfillment center tours Forbes review of all-new Kindle Oasis Comments on new Oasis at redditKindle Amazon announces a new Off To College Store Anjali Sud, former Amazon exec now CEO of Vimeo, interviewed on Recode Media by Peter Kafka Tech Tip “External drive support in iOS makes it possible to easily share files with a Kindle” by Chance Miller at 9TO5Mac - June 18, 2019 “How to share files between iPhone and Kindle with iOS 13” by napabar at YouTube - June 18, 2019 Apple Lightning to USB3 Camera Adapter at Amazon.com - $31 Interview with Noah Magel Technical University of Munich N2Kindle website The

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 Treasure Truck?” by Kaitlyn Tiffany at Vox - May 28, 2019 “Amazon to Joe Biden: We pay all the taxes we owe” at by Lydia DePillis at CNN Business - June 13, 2019 Interview with Neal Thompson Amazon Literary Partnership 2019 “Amazon Literary Partnership Announces 2019 Grant Recipients” - press release May 20, 2019 Examples of organizations receiving support from Amazon Literary Partnership: Words Without Borders, Pen America World Voices Festival and Best Translated Book Awards, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Cave Canem, Kundiman, Black Mountain Institute (creator of the City of Asylum program), Young Writers Pr

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 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 and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.