The Kindle Chronicles

Co-founder, with Carla Douglas, of Beyond Paper Editing Interview Starts at 19:52 You can take a document that you have purchased through Amazon--you can mark up all your annotations, and those are stored in the cloud, which is absolutely brilliant, because you can copy and paste that and share that. You can’t do that at this time with Personal Documents. So if Amazon is listening, that’s my wish list. I would love for them to make that available for Personal Documents. Show Notes and Links: News Hugh Howey’s latest report on self-publishing’s dominance, this time for Nook data Take the Author Earnings survey! “Barnes & Noble Nook Unit Continues to Sputter” by Julie Bosman at The New York Times  - February 26, 2014 Prime Instant Video launches at amazon.co.uk “Hell on Wheels” TV series at amazon.co.uk (hat tip to listener Mark Jarvis of London) Netflix satire video on home delivery by drones February 14, 2014 - 435,000 views The original Amazon video on Prime Air December 1, 2013 - 14.1 million views Tech Tip Feedly and FabReadly Interview with Corina Koch MacLeod Beyond Paper Editing Smashwords Don’t Panic 2.0: On-the-Go Practice for the OSSLT by Corina Koch MacLeod- $2.99 for Kindle at Smashwords “How to Use Twitter to Compile and Export Your Kindle Notes and Highlights” by Carla Douglas at Beyond Paper Editing - February 27, 2014 The Editorial Freelancers Association Perfect It - a consistency checker Content Nikki Finke: The Kindle Singles Interview by David Blum - 99 cents on Kindle 50-percent off O’Reilly’s top 25 books and videos - one-week sale ending Marsch 7, 2014 at 5 am PT Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers, 2nd Edition by Michael Schrenk - on sale at O’Reilly Media for 50% off usual price of $31.95 “Where to get Kindle books for free” by Emma Woollacott at AOL UK - February 26, 2014 Next week’s guest: New Yorker staff writer George Packer, author of The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America How You Can Support E-Books for Troops Thanks to your generous support after last week’s show, we 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!

Author of Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student and Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition Interview Starts at 10:30 The wonderful thing about working with Kindle Singles is—Wham!—there it is! It was like meeting a publisher with speed skates. It was just amazing. The ice was just spraying behind the skates and everything was—Bam!—amazing. I’m still getting used to that, everything happens so quickly.  Show Notes and Links:  News “Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 2014” at CNET - January 31, 2014 “Amazon’s Next Kindle Paperwhite to Feature 300ppi Screen, Better Typography, Arrive Early Next Year” by Matthew Panzarino at TechCrunch - November 24, 2014 “7 ways readers would change Amazon’s Kindle Paperwhite e-reader” by Will DeLamater at EduKindle - February 17, 2014 “How would you change Amazon’s Kindle Paperwhite (2102)?” by Dan Cooper at Engadget - February 14, 2013 “The 50k Report” by Hugh Howey at Author Earnings - February 19, 2014 “Indie Author Insider: Hugh Howie” - video by CreateSpaceVideos - February 19, 2014 Tech Tip How to trim unwanted content to free up memory on your Kindle Fire Interview with Richard Bach September 1, 2012 local news coverage of Bach’s plane crash (video) Richard Bach's Wikipedia page Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student by Richard Bach - $ 2.99 at Kindle Singles Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition by Richard Bach - $7.40 on Kindle “Eleanor Friede, 87, is Dead; Edited 1970 Fable ‘Seagull’” by William Grimes in The New York Times - July 25, 2008 Content Stranger to the Ground by Richard Bach - $11.89 on Kindle Travels with Puff: A Gentle Game of Life and Death - $2.99 on Kindle Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah - $5.99 on Kindle Upcoming Guests on the next three episodes: Corina Koch MacLeod of Beyond Paper Editing New Yorker staff writer George Packer, author of The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America How You Can Support E-Books for Troops Click here, then click on the yellow "Donate" button to help us meet our goal of raising $5,000 in 2014 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!

Editor of Kindle Singles Interview Starts at 16:24  The virtue of Kindle Singles is we don’t say to writers, "Cut for the sake of fitting an ad in." We cut only for purposes of artistic vision, and similarly we can add for the same reason. Show Notes and Links: News Hugh Howey’s new site, Author Earnings “The Report” by Hugh Howey - February 12, 2014 Hugh Howey’s blog “Comparing self-publishing to being published is tricky and most of the data you need to do it right is not available” by Mike Shatzkin - February 13, 2014 “Hugh Howey calls for author earnings revolution” by Alison Flood at The Guardian - February 14, 2014 “Bookstore Sales Fell 1.6% in 2013” at Publishers Weekly - February 12, 2014 “Profits Rose 32% in 2013 at S&S” by Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly - February 12, 2014 Tech Tip Snippefy iOS app to sync Kindle notes and highlights - free; there is a full version for $2.99. Interview with David Blum David Blum Kindle Singles Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student by Richard Bach at Kindle Singles for $2.99 Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition (1970) by Richard Bach - $8.84 on Kindle Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach - $5.99 on Kindle An Unexpected Twist (Kindle Single) by Andy Borowitz - 99 cents on Kindle Heaven and Mel (Kindle Single) by Joe Eszterhas - $2.99 on Kindle Boom: Oil, Money, Cowboys, Strippers, and the Energy Rush That Could Change America Forever. A Long, Strange Journey Along the Keystone XL Pipeline (Kindle Single) by Tony Horowitz - $2.99 on Kindle Estranged (Kindle Single) by Jessica Berger Gross - $1.99 on Kindle Murder in the Yoga Store (Kindle Single) by Peter Ross Range - $1.99 on Kindle Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way (Kindle Single) by Jon Krakauer - $2.99 on Kindle Single Content "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 on his new Amazon story in the New Yorker” by Carolyn Kellogg at The Los Angeles Times - February 10, 2014 “Amazon and the Perils of Non-Disclosure” by George Packer at The New Yorker - February 12, 2014 Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition by Richard Bach - $7.40 on Kindle Interview guests on the next three episodes: TKC 290 on February 21: Richard Bach TKC 291 on February 28: Corina Koch MacLeod of Beyond Paper Editing TKC 292 on March 7: George Packer, author of The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America 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 Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything Interview Starts at 17:39 Physical books will be something for specialists. People will like them maybe the way some people like vinyl records now, but certainly they will not be the mainstream way that people do their reading. Show Notes and Links:  News “Amazon Publishing Finally Giving Big Publishers Run for their Money?” by Jeremy Greenfield at Forbes - February 5, 2013 The Barkeep by William Lashner - $4.99 at Kindle Store “Major Expansion Ahead at The Washington Post” by Ravi Somaiya at The New York Tiimes - January 29, 2014 “Amazon Anarchist: Jeff Bezos is reshaping the Washington Post” by Jeremy Lott at The American Spectator - February 7, 2014 “Sony to Close E-bookstore, Move Customers to Kobo” at Publishers Weekly - February 6, 2013 Tech Tip “Scribd expands its subscription app to Kindle Fire” by Jacob Kastrenakes at The Verge - January 29, 2014 Navigate to download page for Scribd Kindle Fire app from your Kindle Fire, then click on “Install” Oyster book subscription page Interview with Steven Levy Books by Steven Levy:      Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything (1994) - $4.99 on Kindle (Click here for Audible version narrated by the author, for $13.96 or one credit.)      In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives - Selected by Amazon editors as best Business & Investing book of 2011      Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition - $4.84 on Kindle Articles by Steven Levy:      “The Trend Spotter,” a Wired profile of Tim O’Reilly - October, 2005      “How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet” - Wired, January 7, 2014 “The 30-Year-Old Macintosh and a Lost Conversation with Steve Jobs” by Nick Bilton at The New York Times - January 24, 2014 Content Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student by Richard Bach at Kindle Singles for $2.99 Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970) by Richard Bach - $8.84 on Kindle Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach - $5.99 on Kindle Press Release announcing Kindle Single exclusive for Illusions II Amazon editors’ picks of 100 Books to read in a Lifetime 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers’ Picks - Goodreads rankings  Next Week’s Guest: David Blum, editor of Kindle Singles 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 Peace in Amber Interview Starts at 20:51 This is a case where I had two fears operating against me. One, I was writing in the world of Kurt Vonnegut, and the other was writing about 9/11. I don’t think I could have done either one without the other fear offsetting it. Show Notes and Links: News “Amazon’s Android console to launch this year priced below $300” by Matt Martin at VG24/7 - January 28, 2014 Sr Software Developer Recruiting Event Feb 11-12 at Amazon Web Services in Kendall Square Forrester Research overview of its Customer Experience analysis with video by Harley Manning Amazon’s earnings release - January 30, 2014 Tech Tip The new Manage Your Kindle page Interview with Hugh Howey The World of Kurt Vonnegut: Peace in Amber by Hugh Howey - $2.00 on Kindle Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey - $5.99 on Kindle Sand Omnibus by Hugh Howey - $5.99 on Kindle Hugh Howey’s Molly Fyde series Kilgore Trout’s Wikipedia page Content The Etiquette of Illness by Sue Halpern - $9.39 on Kindle Next Week’s Guest: Steven Levy, author of Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything - $4.99 on Kindle (recent update to Kindle version includes a lost conversation with Steve Jobs) 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!

Creator, with his wife Denise, of fine art books for Kindle Interview Starts at 13:32 Right now we have so much work that we can do on the Kindle. The nice thing about Kindle is that they’ve branched out where they have iPad software, Android. So our books are actually purchased by a lot of people that have iPads and Android devices. So right now we’re focusing on getting a very large number of artists and also creating a better product. We’ve got plenty of years of work just for Amazon alone. Show Notes and Links: News “Is Kindle TV on the way? Amazon in talks with media firms over set top box” by Mark Prigg at the Daily Mail online - January 21, 2014 “Walter Isaacson: Bezos is the Best CEO Around” (Video) at Bloomberg TV - November 20, 2013 “Ebook Buyers are Loyal to Specific Retailers, Especially Kindle, iBooks and Nook, New Data Show” by Jeremy Greenfield at Digital Book World - January 21, 2014 Tech Tip “A Student’s Guide to Using the Kindle for Research” by Thorin Klosowski at Lifehacker - January 16, 2014 “How to Get Your Kindle Highlights into Evernote” at Michael Hyatt’s blog - August 4, 2011 Interview with Daniel Ankele Franz Marc: 80+ Expressionist Paintings by Daniel and Denise Ankele - $2.99 on Kindle John Singer Sargent: 160+ Portraits - Realism, Impressionism by Daniel and Denise Ankele - $5.95 on Kindle William-Adolphe Bouguereau: Masterpieces - 250 Academic Paintings - Gallery Series - $6.95 on Kindle Edward Curtis: 90+ Photographic Reproductions - Native American Indian - $3.99 on Kindle Winslow Homer: 500 Watercolor and Oil Paintings, Realist, Realism - Annotated Series - $3.95 on Kindle Alphonse Mucha: Collections - 170+ Art Nouveau Reproductions - Annotated Series - $4.95 on Kindle Illustrated Psalms & Proverbs: 85 Best Loved Bible Scriptures by Daniel Ankele - $2.99 on Kindle Content The Invaluable Experience by Danielle Lao with Rick Limpert - $3.99 on Kindle Sherlock Holmes Ultimate Collection - 99 cents on Kindle I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere podcast “Amazon Publishing Launches Christian Imprint, Waterfall Press" - press release January 23, 2014 Waterfall Press The Four Best Places to Live: Discovering Worship, Prayer, Expectancy and Love by Mark Buchanan - $1.99 on Kindle When You Need a Miracle: The Seven Secrets of Faith by Cherie Hill - $5.99 on Kindle The Quiet Revolution: An Active Faith That Transforms Lives and Communities by Jay F. Hein and Senator Dan Coats - $5.99 on Kindle Next Week’s Guest: Hugh Howey, author of Wool and the recently published story, The World of Kurt Vonnegut: Peace in Amber 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!

Principal at Clearwater High School in Clearwater, Florida Interview Starts at 24:02 I think eventually what you’ll see is the school will buy X number of devices for those that don’t have or can’t afford them, and then kids will be bringing their own devices, so it will be a blend. I really see that happening, kind of what you see now when you think about the pencil, the pen, and paper where folks are bringing their own materials. Show Notes and Links: News “Amazon: We’re working on something ‘bigger than Kindle’ in Cambridge” by Scott Kirsner at The Boston Globe - January 13, 2014. “E-Reading Rises as Device Ownership Jumps” by Kathryn Zickuhr and Lee Rainie at Pew Internet - Jan 16, 2014 PW Radio Show 53: Alison Levine, Digital Book World Recap “DBW 2014: Amazon, Subscription and the Book Business”by Calvin Reid at Publishers Weekly - January 16, 214 Tech Tip NETGEAR Push2TV Wireless Display HDMI Adapter with Miracast (PTV3000) Certified for use with Kindle Fire HDX - $58.98 at Amazon.com Samsung UN32EH5300 32-inch Smart LED HDTV - $328.00 at Amazon.com Redesign coming for Manage Your Kindle Interview with Keith Mastorides Clearwater High School Introduction to the Wall-to-Wall Academy Model at Clearwater High School Clearwater Aeronautical Space Academy (CASA) Clearwater High’s Advanced International Certificate of Education Career Academy for International Culture and Commerce at Clearwater High Modified Uniform Student Dress Code at Clearwater High Content This month’s Kindle First selections “What are you selecting as your Kindle First title this month?” - a thread at the Kindle Chronicles Goodreads group The Line (Witching Savannah, Book One) by J.D. Horn “The 10 Best Contemporary War Novels” by Adrian Bonenberger at Publishers Weekly" - January 17, 2014 AE Morse Code Tutor - $159 $1.59 (or 159 Amazon coins) in the Apps for Android store Next Week’s Guest: Daniel Ankele, co-author of gorgeous art books on Kindle 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 Major update for Kindle for iPad and iPhone, version 4.1, released ForeSee customer satisfaction survey for 2013 holiday season press release - January 7, 2013 Tech Tip Lightening deals for Kindle The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally - $12.59 on Kindle Interviews at New Media Expo (NMX) in Las Vegas 1. Scott Stratten (6:39), author of QR Codes Kill Kittens: How to Alienate Customers, Dishearten Employees, and Drive Your Business into the Ground ($9.99 on Kindle) and UnMarketing: Stop Marketing. Start Engaging ($10.49 on Kindle); co-host with Alison Kramer of the UnMarketing Podcast 2. Warren Whitlock (8:36), co-author of Billions Rising: Empowering Self-Reliance Around the Globe (99 cents on Kindle) and Twitter Revolution: How Social Media and Mobile Marketing is Changing the Way We Do Business & Market Online (Published in 2008, available in paperback only - $15.14) 3. Elsie Escobar (11:07), host of Libsyn's The Feed Podcast and Elsie’s Yoga Podcast 4. Adam Bryan (12:19) of urban tastebuds, author of The Gluten Free Fast Food Guide - $2.99 on Kindle. Book he’s reading: Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World by Gary Vaynerchuk - $12.59 on Kindle 5. Dr. Ryan Gray (14:55), host of the Medical School HQ Podcast 6. Rick Calvert (16:29), co-founder and CEO of New Media Expo 7. Cliff Ravenscraft (18:38), host of the Podcast Answer Man podcast, creator of the Podcasting A to Z Online Coaching Course, and Director of Podcasting for New Media Expo. Books Cliff mentions: 48 Days to the Work You Love by Dan Miller ($9.79 on Kindle); Thou Shalt Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money by Rabbi Daniel Lapin ($13.99 on Kindle), Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (99 cents on Kindle); Commentary on Galatians by Martin Luther (99 cents on Kindle), The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien ($6.98 on Kindle) 8. Mignon Fogarty (27:52), creator of the Grammar Girl Podcast and other Quick and Dirty Tips podcasts. Her newest creation is Grammar Pop, a $1.99 iOS app word game to bolster your grammar skills. Click here for Mignon’s author page at Amazon.com. 9. Andy Ihnatko (35:12), technology columnist for The Chicago Sun-Times 10. Leo Laporte (40:06), founder of the TWIT podcast network. Click here for video of the excellent panel discussion on the future of podcasting, moderated by Leo at NMX on January 6, 2013, with Norman Pattiz and Noah Shannock (photo above). 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!

Preacher at Westside church of Christ in Irving, Texas Interview Starts at 21:06 …the Bible has gone through a number of shifts already. It began as a scroll. It then went on to become a codex, and now it is digital. It began in a time when it was not available to the common man, at least not very easily, to being much more commonly available, and then during the time of the Dark Ages, to largely being shut away from ordinary people, to now it’s at a time where it’s widely available to everyone and anyone. Show Notes and Links: News "New YotaPhone features screens on front and back" at CBS This Morning - January 2, 2014 “Is Amazon a Buy Now?” by Victor Mora at Wall Street Cheat Sheet - January 1, 2014 “E-Books Can’t Burn” by Tim Parks at New York Review of Books blog - February 15, 2012 Sex is Forbidden - A Novel by Tim Parks - $11.99 on Kindle. Tech Tip A problem with automatic Kindle software updates Interview with Mark Roberts Westside church of Christ Pressing On - the e-magazine for growing Christians Logos Bible software The 2014 Five Day Bible Reading Schedule by Mark Roberts - 99 cents on Kindle    (To receive a free PDF of the Five Day Schedule, please email me at PodChronicles AT gmail.com -Len) “The Digital Bible” on NPR’s On the Media - November 22, 2013 “On the Social Authorship of the Bible”by Thomas Larson at Guernica Magazine - November 13, 2013 “What Do Americans Really Think About the Bible?” at ChurchExecutive - March 27, 2013 Content The Etiquette of Illness: What to Say When You Can’t Find the Words by Susan P. Halpern - $9.39 on Kindle Next Week’s Guest(s): A collage of interviews from New Media Expo 2014 in Las Vegas 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!

Co-Owners of JJ Books in Bothell, Washington Interview Starts at 20:17 We have blended in the coffee shops into the bookstores and the gathering places. Now with this [Amazon Source] you have the ability for the people who are buying the electronic readers to feel not guilty when going to the bookstores to browse. They can come back to the bookstore and know that, “Hey, this is my favorite bookstore. Even though I’m not buying directly from them, I’m buying their electronic device, and they can contribute back into that community, whether it’s the book club that they’re a part of, the tea and biscuits in the afternoon. That’s what I want to grow into myself, here at the store." Show Notes and Links: News “Amazon’s Kindle gets boost on Christmas Day” (video) by Cadie Thompson at CNBC - December 27, 2013 “Record-Setting Holiday Season for Amazon Prime” - press release December 26, 2013 “Amazon Beats Goal for the Mayday Button Response Time” - press release December 26, 2013 Top two Kindle Direct Publishing titles in 2013: Hopeless by Colleen Hoover - $3.99 on Kindle - and Wait For Me by Elisabeth Naughton - $3.99 on Kindle Himalayan Crystal Lamps Tech Tip “Beware Automatic Book Updates on Kindle” by Will DeLamater at EduKindle Interview with Jason Bailey JJ Books in Bothell, Washington Amazon Source press release - November 6, 2013 Amazon Source welcome page Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle) - $7.98 on Kindle Content The Signature of All Things: a Novel by Elizabeth Gilbert - $7.50 on Kindle A Reader’s Book of Days: True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year by Tom Nissley - $11.99 on Kindle The Calendar Mysteries by Ron Roy A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Selected from the World’s Sacred Texts by Leo Tolstoy - $14.12 on Kindle Next Week’s Guest: Mark Roberts of Westside church of Christ in Irving, Texas, Kindle Paperwhite (second generation) WiFi Drawing Everyone who was subscribed to the Free Kindle Chronicles Email Updates as of Thursday, December 26 at 7 p.m. Mountain Standard Time was eligible to win a Paperwhite (second generation) WiFi. At the end of this week’s episode I announce the winner. 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!

Executive Director of the Massachusetts Library System Interview Starts at 15:10 What I’d like to see is an acquisitions module like the Amazon platform, where any publisher could upload their collection. They could choose from a menu of license terms, purchase terms, and then the libraries could simply pick the ones they wanted, buy them, and have access to them right from there. If it was a trusted provider that the publishers and the libraries trusted, we would feel comfortable that we had ownership when we bought content. Leased content would be separate. Show Notes and Links: News “The Crazy Stat That Explains Why Amazon Kindles Are So Cheap” by Nicholas Carlson at Business Insider - December 17, 2013 “Amazon Has Over 20 Million Kindles in Consumer Hands” (PDF) - press release by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners - December 11, 2013 Consumer Intelligence Research Partners website The Kindle Chronicles at iTunes - to leave a review, click on the blue "View in iTunes" button, then click on "Launch application." At Kindle Chronicles iTunes listing, click on "Ratings and Reviews" tab, then "Write a Review." Thanks! “Introducing Amazon Storybuilder - A New Tool That Helps Writers Build Movie and Series Outlines” - Amazon press release  December 18, 2013 New Amazon Storybuilder free tool for scriptwriting 495 Productions Jesse Betlyon on LinkedIn, IMDb and Staff Me Up Tattoo Nightmares at Amazon Instant Video Create an Amazon Wish List Tech Tip Push to Kindle app - 99 cents at Apps for Android store at Amazon.com Push to Kindle app at Google Play store - $1.90 Interview with Greg Pronevitz Massachusetts eBook Project Massachusetts Library System My interview with Jamie LaRue, director of the Douglas County (CO) Libraries - July 12, 2013 James G. Neal, University Librarian at Columbia 2CUL- partnership between Columbia and Cornell University Libraries Deb Hoadley, Massachusetts Library System advisor and team leader for eBook Pilot Vendors for MA eBook Project: Baker & Taylor and BiblioBoard Baker & Taylor’s Blio reader (Android, Windows and iOS only) How to load BiblioBoard Library to a Kindle Fire OverDrive Library Renewal ReadersFirst Odilo ProQuest BiblioCommons Safari’s PubFactory OCLC library cooperative Pew Study on libraries - December 11, 2013  Next Week’s Guest: Jason Bailey, co-owner of JJ Books, participant in Amazon Source program in which independent bookstores are selling Kindles Kindle Paperwhite (second generation) WiFi Drawing Everyone who is subscribed to the Free Kindle Chronicles Email Updates as of Thursday, December 12 at noon Eastern Time will be eligible to win the Paperwhite. If you are subscribed, you don’t have to do anything. If you’re not, please consider adding your email to the signup box at the right of this page to receive the free updates–and have your name entered for the drawing! 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!

Upper School English Teacher at Harpeth Hall in Nashville Interview Starts at 19:39 I was really excited about the potential for social media, specifically Twitter—that students can highlight and tweet. How cool it would be if we could all follow each other, and we could be in our nightly reading already having a conversation, saying, “Oh, I loved this line. Who else thought that was beautiful?” Or, “This is confusing. Who’s he talking about?” You can do it on your Kindle. You can’t do it on your [Kindle for] PC, and I have more students reading an eBook on their PC than on a Kindle. Show Notes and Links: News “Retailers Sink Ebook Best-Seller Prices to Lowest Levels Ever with Holiday Discounting” by Jeremy Greenfield at Digital Book World - December 11, 2013 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - $7.50 on Kindle Gone Girl: A Novel by Gillian Flynn - $6.49 on Kindle A Game of Thrones 5-Book set (Song of Ice and Fire Series) - $19.99 on Kindle New Payments Plan for Kindle Fire HDX “Are Libraries Essential? Mixed Message in Latest Pew Survey” by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - December 11, 2013 Tech Tip Cloud Collections Tech tips from the Kindle Chronicles Goodreads group Interview with Meg Griswold National Council of Teachers of English Harpeth Hall in Nashville Lenovo Helix laptop computer The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr - $11.98 on Kindle Subtext- free iPad app for classroom use Iserotope- Mark Iser’s blog about teaching, reading and technology Sophie’s World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder - $7.99 on Kindle Life of Pi by Yann Martel - $8.00 on Kindle Content “Free Christmas Music from Amazon!” at Me and My Kindle - December 5, 2013 25 Days of Free Holiday Songs at Amazon.com Amazon press release announcing coming enhancement of Kindle FreeTime on Kindle Fire HD and HDX - December 9, 2013 StoryFront - Short Stories, Novel Ideas at Amazon.com "Amazon Publishing Launches StoryFront" Press release - December 4, 2013 “Sheila (A Short Story)” by Rebecca Adams Wright - first published in Day One Next Week’s Guest Greg Pronevitz, executive director of the Massachusetts Library System, which last month launched the MA eBook Project, a six-month pilot to investigate new ways for public libraries to loan eBooks. Kindle Paperwhite (first generation) Winner At the end of this week’s show, I announce the winner, drawn from among the 175 people who were on the Kindle Chronicles free email updates list as of Thursday, December 12, 2013 at noon ET. I used a random number generator (not a Yorkie) to choose the winning number. 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!  

Book publishing veteran and creator of the Making Book blog Interview Starts at 18:43 We decided, because we couldn’t get it together that we wouldn’t, and we didn’t. And of course now we live with the consequences, which is Amazon constantly, because it’s wildly successful, wants to get a bigger and bigger and bigger piece of the pie. So their discount demands go up, their service requirements go up, and it’s all to the detriment of the profitability of the publishing companies. Show Notes and Links: News Amazon Prime Air video at YouTube Prime Air at Amazon.com “Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Looks to the Future” - December 1, 2013 on 60 Minutes 60 Minutes Overtime video on Prime Air “Amazon is not alone; UPS, Google also testing delivery drones” by Salvador Rodriguez at The Los Angeles Times - December 3, 2013 “Andreas Raptopoulos: No roads? There’s a drone for that” - TED talk delivered in June, 2013. “Amazon’s Delivery Drones” at Colbert Nation - December 2, 2013 Interview with Richard Hollick Making Book blog Cambridge University Press Oxford University Press “Compulsive Reading” by Richard Hollick at Making Book - November 14, 2013 “The Women and the Thrones” by Daniel Mendelsohn at The New York Review of Books - November 7, 2013 Next Week’s Guest Meg Griswold, creator of the “My Kindle Classroom” blog 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. Kindle Paperwhite (First Generation) Drawing Everyone who is subscribed to the Free Kindle Chronicles Email Updates as of Thursday, December 12 at noon Eastern Time will be eligible to win the Paperwhite. If you are subscribed, you don't have to do anything. If you're not, please consider adding your email to the signup box at the right of this page to receive the free updates--and have your name entered for the drawing! Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Vice President of Amazon Publishing Interview Starts at 18:11 Kindle First is a little bit book club and a little bit advance copy distribution, and I think we’re off to a good start on this. Success over time would mean creating a larger conversation about the books, expanding the audience for each author in the program, seeing lots of reviews up on detail pages, a lot of Goodreads discussions, and, of course, a lot of sales. Show Notes and Links: News “Massachusetts Launches Statewide Digital Library Pilot” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader blog - November 26, 2013 Massachusetts Library System MA eBook Project “It Still Isn’t Easy, But Independent Bookstores Are Doing Better” by Wendy Kaufman on NPR - November 27, 2013 “Bookstore health” at Richard Hollick’s Making Book blog - November 27, 2013 “Barnes & Noble Retail Revenues Down 8%” by Dianna Dilworth at GalleyCat - November 26, 2013 “Amazon’s Next Kindle Paperwhite to Feature 300 ppi Screen, Better Typography, Arrive Early Next Year” by Matthew Panzarino at TechCrunch - November 24, 2013 Tech Tip Kindle Owners' Lending Library Interview with Jeff Belle Kindle First Silent Echo by J.R. Rain - $4.99 at Kindle Store and free till December 1, 2013 for Amazon Prime members if chosen as the Kindle First selection Carlos the Impossible (A Novella) by J.T.K. Belle (aka Jeff Belle) - 99 cents at Kindle Store Content “How to View the Entire Free Kindle Lending Library from your Browser” by Melanie Pinola at Lifehacker - February 19, 2013  Link to Kindle Owners' Lending Library titles Buying In by Laura Hemphill - $5.99 on Kindle (also available for free borrowing through Kindle Owners’ Lending Library) Digital Public Library of America Next Week’s Guest Richard Hollick, author of the “Making Book” blog 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!

  Cofounder and CEO of Goodreads Interview Starts at 22:29 The thing I’ve been most impressed by is the level of enthusiasm and support and excitement that the Amazon teams and the Lab126 team who makes the Kindles have shown for this project. It literally would not have been done without this level of enthusiasm and support, and there’s been a ton of people who’ve helped us make it happen—people who are passionate about reading and really wanted to see this day become a reality. Show Notes and Links: News “Fire OS 3.1 Now Available” - Amazon press release November 18, 2013 “Goodreads and Kindle FreeTime Now Available on the New Kindle Paperwhite” - Amazon press release November 19, 2013 “Nearly Half of Parents Plan on Buying E-Reading Devices for Kids This Holiday Season” by Alison Bryant at Digital Book World - November 20, 2013 Kindle FreeTime TV commercial Bonus video not discussed on podcast: Marshall McLuhan eerily prescient on connectivity - April 1, 1965. Nook Glowlight vs. Kindle Paperwhite - a Barnes & Noble comparison Tech Tip Kindle Cloud Collections Interview with Otis Chandler Goodreads site Lab 126 site “Introducing Goodreads on the New Kindle Fires” by Otis Chandler at Goodreads – November 18, 2013 “Goodreads Now Available on the New Kindle Paperwhite” by Otis Chandler at Goodreads – November 19, 2013  Content The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal by David Halberstam - $7.99 on Kindle Next Week’s Guest Jeff Belle, vice president, Amazon Publishing 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!