The Kindle Chronicles

TKC 306 Russ Grandinetti

TKC 305 Stephen Windwalker

TKC 304 Ed Park

Hosts of the Books on the Nightstand Podcast Interview starts at 16:12 (Photo by Katie Loss) [Ann Kingman]: We are very vehemently anti-book snobbery. We don’t care what people read. We try not to look down on anybody for any reading choices they make. We think there is a book for every reader out there. And because we do work in the industry, we do have some knowledge of that. So even books that are not necessarily my favorite books, I might know that you would love it, that it would be the perfect book for you. Show Notes and Links: News Booktopia Boulder Book Store A Burnable Book: A Novel by Bruce Holsinger - $11.04 on Kindle Books on the Nightstand #281 from Booktopia Vermont - May 20, 2014 The Dog Stars by Peter Heller - $7.99 on Kindle [CORRECTION: In the audio at 7:00, I incorrectly state Peter Heller's first name as Michael.] The Painter by Peter Heller - $10.99 on Kindle A Beautiful Truth by Colin McAdam - $9.99 on Kindle Click here to subscribe to the Booktopia email newsletter to receive updates on future weekends “Inevitable consequences follow from the new hierarchy of power among publishers” by Mike Shatzkin - May 21, 2014 “Amazon-Hachette Dispute Heats Up” by Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg at The Wall Street Journal - May 23, 2014 (If you can’t see entire article behind paywall, try Googling the article title.) Tech Tip Don Quijote (Spanish Edition) - free at Kindle Store Merriam-Webster’s Spanish-English Translation Dictionary, Kindle Edition - $6.36 on Kindle Interview with Michael Kindness and Ann Kingman Books on the Nightstand podcast Burn Out by Kristi Helvig - $9.99 on Kindle The Wives of Los Alamos by TaraShea Nesbit - $9.00 on Kindle Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center by Ray Monk - $12.79 on Kindle The People in the Trees: A Novel by Hanya Yanagihara - $9.99 on Kindle The Morning News Tournament of Books The Martian: A Novel by Andy Weir - $9.99 on Kindle Content The Target (Will Robie) by David Baldacci - $8.99 on Kindle The Goldfinch: A Novel  by Donna Tartt - $7.50 on Kindle Unlucky 13 (Women’s Murder Club) by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro - $8.99 on Kindle Click here to see the 12,529 Hachette books still available for sale at the Kindle Store Comment Self-Care for the Self-Aware: A Guide for Highly Sensitive People, Empaths, Intuitives and Healers by Dave Markowitz Next Week's Guest: Ed Park, senior editor of Amazon Publishing's literary imprint, Little A 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 Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Software quality engineer in Santa Clara, California Interview starts at 18:15 To me it’s really frustrating that you can’t get your notes and highlights easily. The minimal thing they could do is put on Manage Your Kindle, you pick a book and you say, “Download my notes and highlights for this book,” and it would just download a little text file or RTF file or something and then you’d be good to go….It makes me wonder why people make notes in eBooks, because you don’t own them and you can’t get them out.   Show Notes and Links: News “Much at Stake in Amazon-HBG Fight” at Publishers Weekly - May 12, 2014 “Amazon and Hachette Go to War” by Hugh C. Howey - May 13, 2014 “Here’s Why People Shouldn’t Freak Out About the Amazon-Hachette Fight” by Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry at Forbes - May 10, 2014 “Why Aren’t Teens Reading Like They Used To?” at NPR - May 12, 2014 Content No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy - $8.79 on Kindle The Road by Cormac McCarthy - $7.99 on Kindle and $7.95 or 1 credit on Audible  The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk: A Novel  by Ben Fountain - $10.86 on Kindle The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor - $9.66 on Kindle The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis - $8.89 on Kindle Buzz Books 2014: Fall/Winter: Exclusive Excerpts From Over 30 Top New Titles - Free on Kindle How You Can Support E-Books for Troops Click here to help, so we can continue to distribute donated Kindles to U.S. Soldiers deployed overseas. Click here for information on how to donate your used Kindle. For information regarding major gifts or other questions, please email me at PodChronicles AT gmail DOT com. Thanks to all of you who are already supporting E-Books for Troops, and a special thanks to M-Edge Accessories, which donates new Kindle cases whenever we need them to supplement cases that we receive with the donated Kindles. Podcast Recommendation Books on the Nightstand, hosted by Michael Kindness and Ann Kingman 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 Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Editorial Director for Amazon.com books Interview starts at 21:41 The kinds of books that we call out—we do see that some of them go on to be successful. Did we call it, or did we cause it? I don’t know. I wouldn’t claim credit for it, but I’m thrilled to be part of the conversation. And I think that writers and readers know that we are. Show Notes and Links: Intro TKC 102 with Sara, Stephen, and Kristen TKC 119 with Stephen on Ender’s Game News #AmazonCart video on Amazon’s YouTube Channel “Why Amazon wants you to use Twitter hashtags to shop” by Donna Tam at CNET - May 6, 2014 Tech Tip “Is my Paperwhite 1st or 2nd Generation” - discussion thread at Amazon’s Kindle forum Kindle Paperwhite 1st generation software updates Kindle Paperwhite 2nd generation software updates “Goodreads Is Now on the First Generation Kindle Paperwhite” by Suzanne Skyvara at Goodreads blog - March 10, 2014 Kindle Paperwhite Support Videos Interview with Sara Nelson      So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading by Sara Nelson - $10.99 on Kindle “Amazon snags another book industry vet: Sara Nelson, former Publishers Weekly EIC” by Laura Hazard Owen at Gigaom - May 9, 2012 amazon.com/books Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed with annotations by Oprah - $6.99 on Kindle Content Amazon Editors’ Top Picks for the Best Books of May Best Books of the Month 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: A bucket list of books to create a well-read life, from the Amazon Book Editors 100 Mysteries & Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime Omnivoracious, the Amazon Books blog Great American Eats 50 Great American Love Stories The Lion’s Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War by Steven Pressfield - $14.99 on Kindle Tom Robbins: The Kindle Singles Interview by Mara Altman - 99 cents on Kindle Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins - $9.99 on Kindle Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins - $9.97 on Kindle Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life by Tom Robbins - $12.99 on Kindle How You Can Support E-Books for Troops Click here to help, so we can continue to distribute donated Kindles to U.S. Soldiers deployed overseas. Click here for information on how to donate your used Kindle. For information regarding major gifts or other questions, please email me at PodChronicles AT gmail DOT com. Thanks to all of you who are already supporting E-Books for Troops, and a special thanks to M-Edge Accessories, which donates new Kindle cases whenever we need them to supplement cases that we receive with the donated Kindles. 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 Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Author of How To Be Black Interview starts at 15:46 What is the point of me having a relationship with MailChimp and a powerful email newsletter and social platforms through Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus with all these followers and community members? I have connectivity everywhere. The deepest connection I potentially have is with someone who spent $25 for a piece of my life in the form of this book—and they’re a mystery to me. The random kid who follows me on Facebook, I know more about that kid, because he heard a joke I told or showed up at a gig I did at a college cafeteria that cost him nothing directly, than about the parent who spent $25 or the teacher who spent $250 getting 10 of these books for his students. My only way to find those people is hope and stalking. Show Notes and Links: Intro TKC 1 with Baratunde Thurston TKC 107 with Baratunde Thurston TKC 283 with Mark Roberts, Preacher at Westside church of Christ in Irving, Texas TKC 50 with painter Kes Woodward of Fairbanks, Alaska TKC 208 with Jeff Bezos News “Ebook Sales up Across Trade in January, Young Adult Leads the Way” - at Digital Book World on May 1, 2014 “Barnes and Noble: Gone by New Year’s 2015?” by Michael Levin at The Atlernative Press - May 1, 2014 The Muse and the Marketplace 2014 conference in Boston What Every Literary Writer Needs to Know About the Digital Disruption: A Town Hall Debate moderated by Porter Anderson Heidi Legg, author of My Evangeline - $2.99 on Kindle The Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts GrubStreet writing center “Amazon Debuts a Storefront Just for Wearable Tech” by Darrell Etherington at TechCrunch - April 29, 2014 Amazon’s Wearable Technology storefront The Narrative Clip website Tech Tip Send ePub to Kindle Interview with Baratunde Thurston      Baratunde.com Cultivated Wit How To Be Black by Baratunde Thurston - $8.26 on Kindle How To Be Black (Enhanced Edition) - $10.99 on Kindle How To Be Black (Audible Audio Edition) - $12.56 “Found! A Real Amazon Kindle User” by Dan Frommer at Business Insider - June 19, 2008 Video of Baratunde Thurston’s opening keynote address at South by Southwest in 2012 Instapaper Wild (From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail) by Cheryl Strayed - $5 on Kindle Findings Wattpad Pubslush “Facebook to Pay $10 Million Cash for Hot Potato, Says Source” by Michael Arrington at TechCrunch - July 28, 2010 “Baratunde Thurston Left the Internet for 25 Days, and You Should, Too” by Baratunde Thurston - Fast Company’s cover story for July/August 2013 issue #howtobeblack Instagram feed Patreon Kickstarter Content Amazon Editors’ Top Picks for the Best Books of May Concluding Audio Comments TKC 230 and TKC 270 Garrett Riley of the Tech Grab Bag blog and podcast TKC 19 with Linda Hopkins TKC Extra - Cambridge, Mass., Meetup on November 11, 2009 with Rick Askenase, Stephen Windwalker, Michael Bilotta, and Karen Hagglund. Next Week’s Guest: Sara Nelson, editorial director of Amazon Books How You Can Support E-Books for Troops Click here to help, so we can continue to distribute donated Kindles to U.S. Soldiers deployed overseas. Click here for information on how to donate your used Kindle. For information regarding major gifts or other questions, please email me at PodChronicles AT gmail DOT com. Thanks to all of you who are already supporting E-Books for Troops, and a special thanks to M-Edge Accessories, which donates new Kindle cases whenever we need them to supplement cases that we receive with the donated Kindles. Oyster Link I have enjoyed trying Oyster's subscription reading model, which has an elegant interface and a good selection of books available for $9.95 a month. You can receive a $15 Oyster credit with this link  and I will receive a credit of the same amount toward my future month’s subscription fees.

Amazon’s Director of Kindle Content Acquisition for France Interview starts at 14:00 In France, publishers set the price of the digital version at 25 to 30 percent less than the physical book’s price, but when when the title becomes a mass-market paper book, some publishers still set the price at the same price or maybe higher. So of course it’s difficult to understand from a customer perspective, and it’s a clear blocker of the development of the market segment. Show Notes and Links: News “Amazon Slumps as Increased Spending Limits Profit Growth” by Adam Satariano and Sarah Frier at Bloomberg - April 25, 2014 Amazon earnings press release - April 24, 2014 The Playboy Interview: Moguls (including 2000 interview with Jeff Bezos) - $4.99 on Kindle “Beyond 3D: Inside Amazon’s smartphone” by Zach Epstein at Boy Genius Report - April 22, 2014 Tech Tip “Amazon Merges Kindle Personal Documents with Cloud Drive” by Sarah Perez at TechCrunch - April 16, 2014 Interview with Marie-Pierre Sangouard Uber.com Fnac web site La rentrée littéraire in France when a large number of new books are published Amazon.fr Kindle web site Darty - French chain of stores selling Kindles Les gens heureux lisent et boivent du café by Anges Martin-lugand - EUR 2,99 on Kindle at Amazon.fr Au Coeur du Solstice by Jacques Vandroux - EUR 3.99 on Kindle at Amazon.fr  (Due out in English translation in the next three to four months from Amazon Crossing) Content Books on the Nightstand podcast hosted by Michael Kindness and Ann Kingman Booktopia author weekends A Beautiful Truth by Colin Mcadam - $9.99 on Kindle The Steady Running of the Hour by Justin Go - $11.89 on Kindle Burn Out by Kristi Helvig - $9.99 on Kindle Comments Kindle for Samsung app info at Amazon.com “Samsung, Amazon to Launch Do-Branded Kindle App” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - April 17, 2014 Next Week’s Show: Next week will be a milestone—Episode 300. I’m hoping to have as my guest for TKC 300 the comedian, author, and entrepreneur Baratunde Thurston, who was my very first guest in July, 2008, when I started the Kindle Chronicles.  If you’d like to leave an audio comment for next week’s 300th show, that would be great, the shorter the better. You can email me an .mp3 file at podchronicles at Gmail Dot com if you know how to do that, or you can call the Kindle Chronicles comment line which is mentioned in at the end of this week’s show. How You Can Support E-Books for Troops Click here to help, so we can continue to distribute donated Kindles to U.S. Soldiers deployed overseas. Click here for information on how to donate your used Kindle. For information regarding major gifts or other questions, please email me at PodChronicles AT gmail DOT com. Thanks to all of you who are already supporting E-Books for Troops, and a special thanks to M-Edge Accessories, which donates new Kindle cases whenever we need them to supplement cases that we receive with the donated Kindles. 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 Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Retired Special Ed Teacher and Kindle Reader Interview starts at 19:42 I read The New York Times Book Magazine on Sundays, and I belong to a book group, and there are suggestions there. If I come across anything in the newspaper or whatever, then I check it out. The nice thing is I can get a sample of it and read that sample. If I like it I can download it, and if not I just go onto the next.  Show Notes and Links:  News “Amazon Kindle Fire Smartphone Expected Release Date” by Christine Celis at AndroidOrigin - April 14, 2014 Tech Tip Amazon Cloud Collections Interview with Molly Hawthorne Viking River Cruises longship Ingvi Interview with Charles and Robbie Beazley (Starts at 31:28) Click here to download PDF of Kindle Paperwhite User’s Guide - 2nd Edition Content Books on Molly Hawthorne’s Kindle (all prices as listed at Kindle Store): The Litigators by John Grisham - $6.35 Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies by J.B. West and Mary Lynn Kotz - $1.99 The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty - $5.99 The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum by Temple Grandin and Richard Panek - $9.09 Orphan Train: A Novel by Christina Baker Kline - $6.99 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot - $7.99 The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd - $10.99 The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman - $8.99 Books on the Kindles of Charles and Robbie Beazley: The Racketeer by John Grisham - $4.99 Reservation to Kill by Leonard Finz - $2.99 Next Week’s Show: I am working with an Amazon representative at the company’s Paris office to set up an interview next week when Darlene and I conclude our current trip with three days in Paris. How You Can Support E-Books for Troops Click here to help, so we can continue to distribute donated Kindles to U.S. Soldiers deployed overseas. Click here for information on how to donate your used Kindle. For information regarding major gifts or other questions, please email me at PodChronicles AT gmail DOT com. Thanks to all of you who are already supporting E-Books for Troops, and a special thanks to M-Edge Accessories, which donates new Kindle cases whenever we need them to supplement cases that we receive with the donated Kindles. 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 Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Attorney and Creator of The Passive Voice blog Interview starts at 17:13 In my opinion, any midlist author that sticks with a traditional publisher is crazy, because I personally know a number of formerly midlist traditionally publishing authors who are making a very, very nice living off of self-publishing now. We’re talking a 10-x increase in their royalty payments over what they had with traditional publishers. Show Notes and Links: News Fire TV Amazon Fire TV Voice Search FAQ “Estimating Kindle E-Book Sales for Amazon” by Trefis at nasdaq.com - April 7, 2013 “Inside Amazon’s Idea Machine: How Bezos Decodes Customers”  by George Anders in Forbes - April 4, 2014 Tech Tip Amazon Cloud Collections Interview with David Vandagriff The Passive Voice blog: A Lawyer’s Thoughts on Authors, Self-Publishing and Traditional Publishing Interview (video) of David Vandagriff by Joel Friedlander published on August 1, 2013 Embracing Abundance, the web site of G.G. Vandergriff The Baron and the Bluestocking (Three Original Ladies and their Gentlemen) by G.G. Vandagriff - $2.99 on Kindle Content The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth: Entrepreneurship for Weirdos, Misfits, and World Dominators by Chris Brogan - $11.99 on Kindle Joyland by Stephen King - $6.59 on Kindle Next Week’s Show: I will create and post TKC 298 as Darlene and I travel down the Rhine River on a Viking River Cruises boat. If you would like to receive notice of photos and video from the trip via Google Glass, please email me at PodChronicles AT Gmail DOT com, so I can including you in my TKC EuroCam Google Plus circle. How You Can Support E-Books for Troops Click here to help, so we can continue to distribute donated Kindles to U.S. Soldiers deployed overseas. Click here for information on how to donate your used Kindle. For information regarding major gifts or other questions, please email me at PodChronicles AT gmail DOT com. Thanks to all of you who are already supporting E-Books for Troops, and a special thanks to M-Edge Accessories, which donates new Kindle cases whenever we need them to supplement cases that we receive with the donated Kindles. 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 Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Author of Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation It could literally just be a bluetooth microphone that you clip to yourself, and maybe it’s combined in a pedometer or a wristwatch or a something else. All it does is listen for specific commands, like “Amazon, send me toothpaste.” Well Amazon would know exactly which toothpaste to send me. Interview starts at 1:56 Show Notes and Links: Amazon Dash Interview with James McQuivey “Disrupting Disruption at the AAP Annual Meeting” by Calvin Reid at Publishers Weekly - March 21, 2014 Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation by James McQuivey - $3.99 on Kindle Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier - $10.99 on Kindle Book subscription providers Oyster and Scribd News and Interviews at Amazon’s NYC Press Event Uber Amazon Fire TV information at Amazon.com Amazon Game Studios “Amazon Game Studios Introduces ‘Sev Zero’ for Amazon Fire TV” - press release April 2, 2014 "Amazon Fire TV: Questions and Answers (and video)" by Lance Ulanoff at Mashable - April 2, 2014 Don’t miss Garrett Riley’s comparison of Apple TV with Amazon Fire TV in the latest episode of his Tech Grab Bag Podcast. Next Week’s Guest: David Vandagriff, creator of The Passive Voice blog: A Lawyer’s Thoughts on Authors, Self-Publishing and Taditional Publishing" How You Can Support E-Books for Troops Click here to help, so we can continue to distribute donated Kindles to U.S. Soldiers deployed overseas. Click here for information on how to donate your used Kindle. For information regarding major gifts or other questions, please email me at PodChronicles AT gmail DOT com. Thanks to all of you who are already supporting E-Books for Troops, and a special thanks to M-Edge Accessories, which donates new Kindle cases whenever we need them to supplement cases that we receive with the donated Kindles. 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 Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Author of Show Your Work: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered  Interview starts at 17:56 One of the things I always tell people is, “You’re not guaranteed a living from this. I think what you’re guaranteed is a life.” You can set up a life through this way of operating, but I do think that if you operate this way you have a better shot at a living. Show Notes and Links: News “Check your Kindle account for your credit from the Apple ebook settlement” by Laura Hazard Owen at Gigaom - March 25, 2014 Official website for State Attorneys General and Class Counsel E-Book Settlements Barnes & Noble’s incomprehensible information page on the eBooks settlement “Coloradans to Receive $3.7 million in E-Book Settlement Distributions” at Colorado Attorney General John W. Suthers’s web site - March 25, 2014 “Apple hit with $840 million damages claim for ebooks price fixing” by Carl Franzen at The Verge - February 1, 2014 Tech Tip I take another look at Clippings Converter, based on a recommendation by Mike Reeves-McMillan of Aukland, New Zealand Interview with Austin Kleon Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon - $6.14 on Kindle Show Your Work: 10 Ways to to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered by Austin Kleon - $7.18 on Kindle Newspaper Blackout by Austin Kleon - $8.00 on Kindle Austin Kleon’s hour-long interview on The Self-Publishing Podcast - released March 5, 2014 “Brian Eno on Genius, and ‘Scenius’” by synthhead at Synthtopia - July 9, 2009 Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years by Tom Standage - $9.99 on Kindle Tom Standage - Writing on the Wall annotated at Rap Genius Sound Opinions interview with Mike Watt discussed on Austin Kleon’s Tumblr - March 23, 2014 Double Nickels on the Dime - 1984 album by The Minutemen - $8.99 at Amazon mp3 store Content The Liberation Trilogy Box Set by Rick Atkinson - $36.99 on Kindle Next Week’s Guest: James McQuivey, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research. Author of Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation - $3.99 on Kindle How You Can Support E-Books for Troops Click here to help, so we can continue to distribute donated Kindles to U.S. Soldiers deployed overseas. Click here for information on how to donate your used Kindle. For information regarding major gifts or other questions, please email me at PodChronicles AT gmail DOT com. Thanks to all of you who are already supporting E-Books for Troops, and a special thanks to M-Edge Accessories, which donates new Kindle cases whenever we need them to supplement cases that we receive with the donated Kindles. 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 Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Founder and Editor of Critical Margins blog and podcast Interview starts at 14:16 I want people to see online content as something that’s in flux. We have such a great opportunity right now for people to see us as human beings, right? That we are content producers who are figuring it out as we go, basically. And that’s important to me. And that’s something I’ve always tried to do at Critical Margins. Show Notes and Links: Intro My Google Glass video of the Denver St. Patrick’s Day Parade My next object of gadget lust: Moto 360 smart watch running Android Wear News “Amazon Partners with Brazil’s Ministry of Education to Distribute eBooks to Teachers” by Dianna Dilworth at GalleyCat - March 18, 2014 Amazon’s Whispercast platform “To Tango, Flamenco and Samba: Penguin Random House Merger with Santillana” by Carolo Carrenho at Publishing Perspectives - March 21, 2014 “Amazon Publishing is Hiring, Says Belle” - at Publishers Weekly - March 19, 2014 “Amazon - Building Up the Capacity to Suffer and a Wider Moat” at GuruFocus - March 17, 2014 Tech Tip “Paperwhite Tricks, etc. “ by Walter Glenn at lifehacker - February 26, 2014 “Resetting the time remaining in chapter/book on the Paperwhite"posted by whitearrow at mobile read - October 19, 2012 The search term to enter to reset time remaining in a book on the Paperwhite is the following: ;ReadingTimeReset Interview with Kevin Eagan Critical Margins blog and podcast Episode 0, Episode 1, and Episode 2 of the Critical Margins podcast “The Unknowns of Writing” by Kevin Eagan at Critical Margins - March 21, 2014 The Literature for the Halibut show on KDHX, co-hosted by Jason Braun "Tim Ferris: 4-Hour-Hero or just another asshat?" by Jason Braun and Kevin Eagan - January 20, 2014 “Tim Ferris: 4-Hour Hero or Asshat? Part 7 - Writing When Not Writing” by Jason Braun and Kevin Eagan - April 3, 2014 Show Your Work: 10 Ways to to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered by Austin Kleon - $7.18 on Kindle Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon - $6.14 on Kindle Content Humble eBook Bundle 3- The Happiest Days of Our Lives by Will Wheaton, Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black, Jumper by Steven Gould, Zombies Versus Unicorns - An Anthology by various authors, Mogworld by Yahtzee Croshaw, Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, and more to be announced soon. Average donation so far for the bundle: $10.94 “10 Best Romance Novels, Picked by Bella Andre” at Publishers Weekly - February 8, 2014 Stephen Windwalker’s free BookGorilla app for Kindle Fire HDX Book trailer for Redeployment by Phil Klay Redeployment by Phil Klay - $10.99 on Kindle Upcoming Shows: On Monday of next week, March 24, I have interviews scheduled with Austin Kleon and Forrester Research Vice President and Principal Analyst James McQuivey  I’m not sure yet in which order they will appear on the next two episodes of the show, TKC 294 and 295 next week and the week after. How You Can Support E-Books for Troops Thanks to your generous support, we have raised more than $1,500. Thank you! This means we have $3,500 left to raise in order to meet this year’s fundraising goal. Click here to help, so we can continue to distribute donated Kindles to U.S. Soldiers deployed overseas. Click here for information on how to donate your used Kindle. For information regarding major gifts or other questions, please email me at PodChronicles AT gmail DOT com. Thanks to all of you who are already supporting E-Books for Troops, and a special thanks to M-Edge Accessories, which donates new Kindle cases whenever we need them to supplement cases that we receive with the donated Kindles. 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 Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Show Notes and Links:  News “What’s the Best Amazon Prime Alternative?” by Matt Burns at TechCrunch - March 13, 2014 Amazon Prime information at Amazon.com No word on a price increase for Amazon’s Prime Air drone delivery service! Tech Tip Kindle Paperwhite 1st generation software update to version 5.4.4 Kindle Paperwhite 2nd generation software update to version 5.4.3 Interviews and Links from SXSW, with times noted when they appear on the podcast 1:35    My Google Glass audio excerpt from Austin Kleon’s presentation, “Show Your Work!” on Friday, March 7, 2014. 10:11   Introduction to "Emoji & Texting: Is Human Language Extinct?” presented by Ben Zimmer and Sam Huston 11:40   Bryan Person, director of customer success at Lithium Technologies 13:07   Ben Zimmer, executive producer of Vocabulary.com and the language columnist for The Wall Street Journal. 16:58   Ed Castillo, chief strategy officer at TBWA\Chiat\Day NY : “Why Reading is Flawed, Dying Technology” 25:40   Peter Tighe, my cousin and host in Austin, on reading in braille versus listening to books 31:16   Adam Carolla, author of In Fifty Years We’ll All be Chicks ($7.99 on Kindle), Not Taco Bell Material ($7.63 on Kindle) and (available for $13.59 Kindle preorder with delivery on May 13, 2014) President Me: The America That’s in My Head      Adam Carolla’s Save Our Podcasts Legal Defense Fund at FundAnything 35:16   Luke Littleboy, marketing manager for Screenburn in London 37:40   James Montgomery, director of digital & technology, BBC Global News Ltd            Upworthy, a social aggregation site Content Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon - $6.14 on Kindle Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered by Austin Kleon - $7.18 on Kindle Thanks for Your Support of E-Books for Troops! Thanks to your generous support we only have about $3,500 left to raise in order to meet this year’s fundraising goal. Click here to help, so we can continue to distribute donated Kindles to U.S. Soldiers deployed overseas. Click here for information on how to donate your used Kindle. For information regarding major gifts or other questions, please email me at PodChronicles AT gmail DOT com. Thanks to all of you who are already supporting E-Books for Troops! 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 The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America  Interview starts at 5:55 I don’t have the view that you might have and that some of your listeners might have, which is that there’s something completely corrupt about traditional publishing or that it’s somehow stacked against all this talent out there that’s just waiting to be discovered. Sometimes it turns out that, although it has its own form of corruption and coziness, there’s also a way in which talent eventually does find its way to good publishers, and a lot of self-published authors find their way to good publishers as well. Show Notes and Links: News “Gaiman on Copyright Piracy and the Web” (video) - February 3, 2014 The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel by Neil Gaiman - $7.99 on Kindle American Gods by Neil Gaiman - $6.76 on Kindle Tech Tip “How to Learn a Language Using the Kindle Paperwhite” by Justin Dennis at makeuseof.com Interview with George Packer The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer - $9.11 on Kindle The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer - $8.89 on Kindle “Cheap Words: Amazon is good for customers. But is it good for books?” by George Packer in The New Yorker - February 17, 2014 George Packer reads from The Unwinding at Politics and Prose bookstore (video) - June 19, 2013 Content Joyland by Stephen King - available for Kindle by preorder for $6.59 with delivery set for April 8, 2014 "S&S Launches Site for Book Discovery" at Publishers Weekly - March 3, 2014 Off the Shelf, a new book review site by Simon & Schuster Big Bang Theory - comedy series in seven seasons at Amazon Instant Video Next week’s show: I will record a collage of interviews with fascinating people at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas. If you will be at SXSW, please drop me an email at PodChronicles AT gmail, so we can rendezvous for a cup of coffee or the secret TKC handshake. How You Can Support E-Books for Troops Thanks to your generous support after the past two shows, we have raised more than $1,500. Thank you! This means we have $3,500 left to raise in order to meet this year’s fundraising goal. Click here to help, so we can continue to distribute donated Kindles to U.S. Soldiers deployed overseas. Click here for information on how to donate your used Kindle. For information regarding major gifts or other questions, please email me at PodChronicles AT gmail DOT com. Thanks to all of you who are already supporting E-Books for Troops! 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 Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!