The Kindle Chronicles

Creator of Dispatches from the Frat House   Interview starts at 14:23 and ends at 40:20   I’d like to write the kind of book that I’d like to read. And immediately there’s that thing in your head that goes, “Why? There are a gazillion books out there. Why would you want to write a book? This little wife in the midwest surrounded by kids—who’s going to want to read that?” And the other part of my brain goes, “Well why not? Why shouldn't I write that? If nobody reads it, I wrote it, I’m happy. So why not?"   News “Watch out, Siri, Amazon’s Alexa could be coming to iOS soon” by Jeff Brynes at appadvice.com - August 3, 2015 Alexa Voice Service blog post at Amazon - July 31, 2015 “Why Apple and Amazon Chose to be ‘Frenemies’” by Michael Blanding at Forbes - August 3, 2015 "Frenemies in Platform Markets: The Case of Apple’s iPad vs. Amazon’s Kindle” by Ron Adner, Jianqing, and Feng Zhu at HBS Working Paper Series (Full paper in PDF) “Amazon Cuts Down on Prime Members Sharing Their Benefits” by Sarah Perez at TechCr