The Kindle Chronicles

Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research Interview Starts at 18:51 As Amazon, you want to say to people, "We really don't care what device you own. Now, we have a few devices that we're going to give you that are optimized for your Amazon customer relationship." It could be an eReader, it could be a tablet, and it could be a mirror, and it could be whatever else might come down the road. But in the long run, Amazon needs to send the message that we don't really care whose device you own. We just care that our app is on it. Show Notes and Links: News Kindle for iPad app update "Kindle for iOS Accessibility Gestures - Quick Reference Guide"- free at Kindle Store "'Opportunity of a Lifetime' says Amazon worker on Obama's visit" by Mike Pare at timesfreepress.com - July 31, 2013 "Amazon Creates More than 5,000 New Full-Time Jobs Across Growing U.S. Fulfillment Network; Hiring Starts Now" - Amazon press release - July 29, 2013 "Amazon hits 97,000 employees, more than tripling in size in three years" by Todd Bishop at GeekWire - July 25, 2013 "From kindling to inferno: Full specs for next-gen Amazon Kindle Fire HD tablets - Amazon to combine powerhouse specs and affordable prices in bid to scorch the competition" by Zach Epstein at Boy Genius Report - July 30, 2013 "Want to sell Kurt Vonnegut fan fiction? Amazon can make it happen" by Elisabeth Donnelly at The Los Angeles Times - August 1, 2013 Amazon press release on Kurt Vonnegut license - August 1, 2013 "Stephen King: Writing is Hypnosis" - video from CNN Money - October 6, 2010 Tech Tip More on how to use your Kindle in a book group discussion Three Degrees of Justice by John Bobo - $2.99 at the Kindle Store Interview with James McQuivey Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation by James McQuivey - $5.99 at the Kindle Store Content  The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle - Not available on Kindle. HumbleBundle offer is unfortunately over. The Cowboy and the Cossack by Clair Huffaker (A Nancy Pearl Book Lust Rediscovery) - $4.99 on Kindle Harpo Speaks by Harpo Marx - $13.20 on Kindle "Three Ideas on the Future of Reading from Eric McLuhan" by Kevin Eagan at Critical Margins - July 29, 2013 "President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview"by David Blum - free at the Kindle Store 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 and his dog, Finnegan Interview Starts at 11:07 I see the alphabet as disappearing, the alphabet itself. It's designed for something else.  We don't have a need for the kinds of sensibility that it provides. That is, our new situation doesn't say, "We need this alphabet. We need this way of imagining the world, of using our minds." There are other ways around that are faster, more in tune with the technology. Show Notes and Links: News "Is Amazon Invincible?" by Andrew Rhomberg at Digital Book World - July 23, 2013 Jellybooks Readmill Tech Tip How to use your Kindle in a book group discussion Interview with Eric McLuhan Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan - $13.72 on Kindle The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man by Marshall McLuhan - $18.12 on Kindle The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man by Marshall McLuhan - used paperback (Please click on "Tell the Publisher I'd like to read this book on Kindle" button) The Laws of Media:The New Science by Marshall Mcluhan and Eric McLuhan - Not available on Kindle. Click here to let publisher know you'd like to read it on Kindle. The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan - Click here to let publisher know you'd like to read it on Kindle. Letters of Marshall McLuhan Corinne McLuhan, editor - Click here to let publisher know you'd like to read it on Kindle. Media and Formal Cause (2011) by Marshall McLuhan and Eric McLuhan - Click here to let publisher know you'd like to read it on Kindle. NeoPoiesis Press Content  "Introducing 'The Kindle Singles Interview'" - Amazon press release - July 25, 2013Loic LeMeur video interview with Dave Morin, cofounder and CEO of Path, at LeWeb 2011 President Shimon Peres: The Kindle Singles Interview - 99 cents on Kindle "Path releases exclusive new client for Kindle Fire HD" by Brian Hough at BestTechi - July 19, 2013 "Announcing: Path is Now Available on the Kindle Fire" at Path Blog  - July 18, 2013 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. Next Week's Guest James McQuivey, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

BookExpo America 2013 panel on Self-Publishing Starts at 10:12 I actually think disruption is the best defense for publishing. Self-publishing is turning out to be a potential boon for publishers, because you can sit there and watch people market themselves, share their ideas, see which things gather any kind of momentum in the marketplace, and then make your offer at that point where a lot of the risk is taken out. A lot of the market has already been built, the market that you're probably not going to have very much money to spend to build anyway as a publisher in the modern world…In all the industries that I've worked with, digital disruption turns out to be a better friend than foe when all is said and done. --James McQuivey, vice president and senior analyst at Forrester Research   Show Notes and Links: Jerry Sears of Boulder Publishers in Boulder, Colorado (Starts at 2:00) Thom Kephart, community outreach product manager at Amazon.com (Starts at 4:25) CreateSpace Kindle Direct Publishing Emma Pulitzer , marketing assistant at Open Road Integrated Media (Starts at 7:28) CSPAN video of Self-Publishing Panel at BEA (52 minutes) Chris Kenneally, Director, business development, at Copyright Clearance Center James McQuivey, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation by James McQuivey - $5.99 on Kindle "Angela James to Helm Digital Press at Harlequin" at Mediabistro - November 9, 2009 Keith Ogorek, senior vice president - marketing, Author Solutions and author of the Indie Book Writers 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!

Director of the Douglas County (Colo.) Libraries Interview Starts at 14:08 Now we have over 900 publishers who have said yes. That's translated for us to about 22,000 [eBook] titles that we've purchased so far. We still have about 14,000 that we're "buying," meaning renting from 3M and Overdrive and the people that are restricting our access. But we're really finding that outside of the Big 6 most publishers are more than happy to sell to libraries. They believe and they see the advantage of making their books discoverable through us. Show Notes and Links: News "Apple Loses: Judge Finds Price-Fixing in E-Book Case" by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - July 10, 2013 The Battle of $9.99: How Apple, Amazon, and the Big Six Publishers Changed the E-Book Business Overnight by Andrew Richard Albanese - $1.99 at Kindle Singles (The Battle of $9.99 will be updated soon with information about Judge Denise Cote's decision against Apple.) "Court rules Apple fixed ebook prices, led an illegal conspiracy" by Jeff John Roberts at PaidContent - July 10, 2013 Judge Denise Cote's full decision (PDF) against Apple - July 10, 2013 "A New CEO Will Totally Turn Around Barnes & Noble's Technologically Obsolete Business and Dying Industry" by Matthew Yglesias at Slate - July 8, 2013 Amazon Publishing Launches Jet City Comics - press release July 9, 2013 "Symposium #1: A SideQuest Comic (The Foreworld Saga) - 99 cents for Kindle "Exclusive details on Amazon's next-gen Kindle Fire Tablets" by Zach Epstein at Boy Genius Report - Tech Tip "Amazon Quietly Tests Streaming Flash Videos to Kindle Fire Owners" by Ina Fried at All Things D - July 9, 2013 Interview with Jamie LaRue Jamie LaRue's (mostly) Library-related blog Douglas County Libraries site Video overview of Douglas County Libraries digital branch Content  "How to Install Bluefire Reader for Android on the Kindle Fire"at the Bluefire reader blog - February 3, 2012 Link for download of Bluefire Reader: Click here from your Kindle Fire The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane - $12.74 on Kindle "The Old Ways: a Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane - review" by Nicholas Lezard at The Guardian - July 2, 2013 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!

Senior writer and features editor at Publishers Weekly Interview Starts at 13:42 Heavy eBook consumers still do like their E Ink readers, and that's a significant part of eBook sales. The fact that Apple only has the iPad and the iPhone and etc.--it only has these backlit devices--they're only serving one part of the eBook market.  I don't think that's enough to give them a significant share of the eBook market in general. Without an E Ink reader, I think Apple's never going to break through a certain glass ceiling when it comes to eBooks. Show Notes and Links: News "Google Wins Appeal, Authors Guild Loses Class Action Status" by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - July 1, 2013 "Second Circuit Decertifies the Google Books Class" by James Grimmelmann at The Laboratorium blog - July 1, 2013 "Unintended Consequences in the HathiTrust Case" by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - October 19, 2013 HathiTrust digital library "Amazon Patents 'DVD Extras' for E-Books" by Roberto Baldwin at Wired - July 2, 2013 Amazon patent for "Customized electronic books with supplemental content" Tech Tips      How to get the Kobo app on your Kindle Fire 1. On your Kindle Fire, swipe down from the top to reveal the quick settings. Tap on More... , then Device. 2. Make sure "Allow Installation of Applications" is in the On position. 3. Go back to home carousel view. Tap on Web to bring up the browser. 4. navigate to apps.goodereader.com 5. Tap on the black button at right side labeled "Good e-reader Android App Market 6. Tap on orange "Download" button. You will see a "Starting download..." message appear in lower third of screen. 7. Swipe down from top of screen to reveal Quick Settings and notifications. 8. Under Notifications, tap on "com.good_.ereader_1.0.31.apk" 9. On next screen, tap on "install" button at lower right. 10. When installation is complete, tap on "Open" button. 11. Tap on search icon at top of next screen, then type Kobo. 12. Tap on the Kobo icon that appears. 13. On next screen, tap on Download button. It will take a while to download, and you'll see a progress bar. 14. When download is complete, a new screen will appear. Tap on the Install button at lower right. 15. Wait for installation to complete. Tap Open button. 16. Sign in with your Kobo username and password. Interview with Andrew Richard Albanese The Battle of $9.99: How Apple, Amazon, and the Big Six Publishers Changed the E-Book Business Overnight - $1.99 at Kindle Singles "Judge Hears Closing Arguments  in Apple Trial" by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - June 21, 2013 "Q&A with Andrew Richard Albanese, Author of 'The Battle of $9.99" at Publishers Weekly - June 18, 2013 Content  Humble eBook Bundle II  - Set-Your-Own-Price offer on six great books, expires July 17, 2013. 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. Next Week's Guest James LaRue, director, Douglas County (Colo.) Libraries Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Actress and Audible.com narrator Interview Starts at 24:45 I think the experience of reading a book oneself and listening to it are profoundly different. I will say that I do think the narrator of an audiobook becomes an incredibly important part of the experience. And I know so many wonderful craftspeople in the field, but I will say that hearing one of those people will make a book that's already extraordinary even more extraordinary, or could take a book that is floundering in some ways into a new dimension. But I also think that sometimes if it's a book that's been around for a long time or people grew up with, sometimes to hear someone narrate it really takes away from the voices they already had in their own heads. So, being such a lover of reading as well as a lover of story telling, I think one does not happen at the expense of the other. Let's hope that they go together. Sponsor: Try GotoMeeting with HD Faces Today Free for 30 Days! Show Notes and Links: News "Which is the US's Most Prolific Literary Translation House?" by Edward Nawotka at Publishing Perspectives - June 27, 2013 "Why Bury the Lede? AmazonCrossing Publishes More Books in Translation than Anyone Else" by Chad W. Post at Three Percent - June 3, 2013 The Three Percent podcast at the iTunes Store AmazonCrossing titles available at the Kindle Store The Museum of Abandoned Secrets by Oksana Zabuzhko (729 pages) - $4.99 for Kindle "Amazon Kindle Worlds is Bigger Than You Think" by Steve Symington and Erin Miller at The Motley Fool - June 25, 2013 "Now Open: Kindle Worlds Store and Self-Service Submission Platform" - Amazon press release, June 27, 2013 Gossip Girl Season 6 - $16.99 at Amazon Instant Video Gossip Girl: XOXO (Kindle Worlds Short Story) by Kodi Scheer - 99 cents for Kindle Gossip Girl: Lovers, Liars and Thou (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Carolyn Hughey - $1.99 for Kindle When a Camel Breaks Your Heart by Kodi Scheer - 99 cents at Kindle Singles Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture by Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, and Joshua Green - $12.10 for Kindle Tech Tip "How to reset the furthest page read on your Kindle" by Paul Biba at Teleread - March 9, 2012 Amazon help page for "Clear the Furthest Page Read" Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships by David Schnarch - $8.79 for Kindle Interview with Gabra Zackman Audible books narrated by Gabra Zackman Audible books narrated by Jonathan Davis Postmodern Company studio in Denver Content  Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan - $13.72 for Kindle. Bela Fleck: Throw Down Your Heart - Prime Instant Video 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. Next Week's Guest Andrew Richard Albanese, author of The Battle of $9.99: How Apple, Amazon, and the Big Six Publishers Changed the E-Book Business Overnight Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Journalist, Critic & Publishing Analyst Interview Starts at 15:51 I think that Old Publishing has good things to say to us. I think some of those houses could turn around and tell us, "Wait a minute. We are the homes of Steinbeck and Tennessee Williams. Who do you think you're talking to? Let us give you something of what we do know. It may be bigger than you think." But they for some reason... that cult of silence, that cult of dignity--and I know that's how they think of it, and I do respect that--is preventing them at times from being able to defend themselves, from being able to just jump in and chat with us all, from being able to speak in an unfettered and unguarded way, as of course the insurgent side of publishing, which is of course self-publishing and digital, can do. (Photo by Sheila Bounford, London.) Sponsor: Try GotoMeeting with HD Faces Today Free for 30 Days! Show Notes and Links: News Department of Justice closing argument slides (PDF) Amazon press release announcing expansion of Kindle Worlds licenses - June 20, 2013 Kindle Worlds information page at Amazon.com "Meet the Woolwrights: Hugh Howey's Wool spawned a genre all its own, and these indie authors are first to the party" by Jason Gurley at medium.com - June 20, 2013 "Is Barnes & Noble Getting out of the Hardware Business ?" by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - June 17, 2013 Nook sale extended - Barnes & Noble website 16 GB Kindle Fire HD 7" with Special Offers on sale at Best Buy for $169.99 Kindle Fire HD 7" at Amazon.com - $199.99 Tech Tip Kindle Software Updates Update info for Kindle Touch Interview with Porter Anderson "Writing on the Ether: While You Were Bashing Amazon" by Porter Anderson at Jane Friedman's blog - June 20, 2013 Porter Anderson's columns at Publishing Perspectives Porter Anderson's well-tended and informative Twitter account Content  The Battle of $9.99: How Apple, Amazon, and the Big Six Publishers Changed the E-Book Business Overnight by Andrew Richard Albanese - $1.99 (Kindle Single) Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award page "The Shifting Landscape of Book Reviews" by Sabrina Ricci at IndieReader - June 19, 2013 We Fancy Books 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. Next Week's Guest Audible.com narrator Gabra Zackman Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! If you have a Kindle you'd like to donate to a U.S. Soldier deployed overseas, please consider supporting E-Books for Troops!

Software quality engineer and valued tech resource in the world of eReaders Interview Starts at 15:29 With a book you just dog-ear the pages or you stick in sticky notes. You can get to one place in the book and flip back and forth really easily. And most of the reading systems, at least from main vendors, they're really optimized for linear reading--you start at the beginning of the book, read to the end of the book--and they're fine for that, but but if you're doing any kind of research or more sophisticated reading it's hard to jump around. It's easy to set a bookmark, but at least on the Kindle platform it's hard to get back to a bookmark. You have to make about five taps to get there. So I just think there's a lot of opportunity there if they want to break into other types of reading like technical reading and education and things like that.   Show Notes and Links: News "The Apple iBooks Origin Story" by John Paczkowski at AllThingsD - June 14, 2013 "Apple Brings iBooks to Computers - Should Amazon Be Worried?" by Renee Butler at Seeking Alpha - June 12, 2013 Pew Internet Trend Data on U.S. adult gadget ownership Waterfi waterproof Paperwhite Tech Tip OverDrive announcement of Kindle eBook availability - September 21, 2011 Interview with Tom Semple Tom Semple's LinkedIn profile Content  The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone - $14.99 on Kindle (preorder for delivery October 15) Superman: The Man of Steel (1991-2003) #1 - Free for Kindle "More Free Kindle Comic Books!" at the Me and My Kindle blog - June 13, 2013 Interview with Jason Ojalvo, vice president for content creation at Audible.com (starts at 29:03) Jason Ojalvo at LinkedIn Audible.com ACX 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. Next Week's Guest Publishing blogger Porter Anderson Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Amazon's Vice President for Independent Publishing Interview Starts at 19:17 Our vision is to have the author publish once and have their consumers read their book everywhere, and everywhere means three things for us: Number one is all geographies in all languages, so we want to help them translate their work in other languages. Hugh Howey is huge in other geographies. Number two - in all consumption devices. I don't think it's very clear to our consumers and our authors that you're not really tied to only Kindle. There are many, many smartphones and iPads and iPhones around the world than just Kindles. We would love to have readers get the best value on Kindle, but their content is the whole ecosystem, and I don't think it's very obvious to the consumers and to the writers that their book is available in all consumption devices. So all geographies, all consumption devices. The third part is in all formats [digital, paper, and audio].   Show Notes and Links: News "Publishers gave Amazon 'ultimatum' over e-book pricing: executive" by Nate Raymond at Reuters - June 5, 2013 "Amazon Brings the Kindle DX Back From the Grave" by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - May 26, 2013 Amazon Resurrects the Kindle DX, That Most Awkward Cousin of a Device Family on the Way Out" by Darrell Etherington at Techcruch - June 5, 2013 Kindle DX - $299 at Amazon.com "B&N Mysteriously Removes Nook for PC and Nook for Mac for Download" at the eBook Reader - June 7, 2013 "Amazon starts selling Kindle Paperwhite and Fire HD in China" by Laura Hazard Owen at GigaOm - June 7, 2013 "Is Amazon Trying to Reach Out to Independent Booksellers?" by Paul Constant at Slog - May 31, 2013 Tech Tips Kindle for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch - update to 3.8 Interview with Nader Kabbani Johann Sebastian Bach's Invention Number 8, performed by Nader Kabbani - video Kindle Direct Publishing CreateSpace Audible ACX Content  Libby Johnson McKee at Amazon Jane Friedman C.J. Lyons Stephanie Bond Jane Litte's report on the KDP/CreateSpace roundtable - at Dear Author The Passive Voice by David Vandagriff Porter Anderson's post on the roundtable IndieReader Mercy Pilkington of GoodEReader Jason Boog, editor of GalleyCat 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. Next Week's Guest eReader tech savant Tom Semple Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Amazon's Vice President of Kindle Content Interview Starts at 22:38 One of the other things that we really love about Goodreads is it works great no matter how you read. And that's something that we really want to make sure that we don't change.  So if you happen to read print, or you happen to read on a different digital reading platform, Goodreads is a useful service to you, and we hope it stays that way. In fact, I hope it keeps getting better. If you happen to read on Kindle, our goal is to make sure that it's as good as we can make it, and obviously we have some more direct control over that, so we're already busy on product plans to figure out how to make that happen.  Sponsor: Try GotoMeeting with HD Faces Today Free for 30 Days! Other Interviews & Links from BookExpo America: Michael Kozlowski of Good E-Reader Joshua Tallent of Firebrand Technologies Otis Chandler, co-founder and CEO of Goodreads Hugh Howey, author of the Wool book series and the Molly Fyde series University Bookstore aka the The Scholars Bookshop at Appalachian State University Maureen Gately, director of production and design at Island Press in Washington, D.C. Liz Castro's blog Patrick Brown, director of author marketing at Goodreads 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!

President and Cofounder of Enthrill  Interview Starts at 19:27 Our system really will reward stores for doing what they do best, and that's getting customers interested in books. We're the only true answer for discovery for eBooks that doesn't deal with metadata. Our discovery tools are all physical, and right back to the reason that you hire a designer to do your cover art, because you want it to be picked up and looked at and get people interested. So we're very happy with that part of our business.  Sponsor: Try GotoMeeting with HD Faces Today Free for 30 Days! Show Notes and Links: News BookStats 2013 now available for purchase Amazon announces "Kindle Worlds" publishing platform for fan fiction - press release on May 22, 2013 "Amazon to Build a Market for Fan Fiction" by Megan McArdle at The Daily Beast - May 22, 2013 "Amazon Unlocks the Value of Fan Fiction with 'Kindle Worlds'"by Jeff Bercovici at Forbes - May 22, 2013 "Amazon: victim or agressor? Issue will frame Apple ebook trial" by Jeff John Roberts at PaidContent - May 23, 2013 Apple's letter urging US District Judge Denise Cote to force Amazon to reveal information (PDF) May 15, 2013 "Amazon execs set to testify in price-fixing case against Apple" by Jeff John Roberts at PaidContent - March 4, 2013 Tech Tips Fran Betlyon's web site and blog The Open-Focus Brain: Harnessing the Power of Attention to Heal Mind and Body by Les Fehmi - $9.99 for Kindle Kindle International support pages Videos d'aide Kindle Paperwhite Interview with Kevin Franco Enthrill web site Endpaper site for redeeming Enthrill cards Enthrill media Guy Kawasaki on Enthrill cards Content  Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award finalists Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award FAQ BookGorilla The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer - $11.04 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. Next Week's Guest Russ Grandinetti, VP Kindle Content at Amazon Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Director of "Out of Print" Interview Starts at 16:37 He [Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos] wanted to give me a half an hour--he gave me 45 minutes. And it was really an amazing interview. He was very bright, very warm, very gracious, and you got the sense that he really wanted to do good. That's the sense you got--of course, still being a brilliant businessman, and those are not mutually exclusive. Show Notes and Links: Intro Belmont Hill School News "Amazon is Going to Buy Liquavista" by Nate Hoffelder - January 21, 2013 "Confirmed: Amazon Bought Liquavista -- Color Kindle to Follow?" by Nate Hoffelder - May 13, 2013 The Electrowetting Display - January 2, 2013 video of Liquivista display Liquavista screen demonstrated outdoors - May 18, 2010 video of Liquivista display "Did Samsung Just Give Amazon a Way to Fight Apple?" by Haydn Shaughnessy at Forbes - May 15, 2013 "U.S. judge sets 2013 trial date for Apple e-book lawsuit" by Basil Katz at Reuters - June 22, 2012 "U.S. Now Paints Apple as 'Ringmaster' in Its Lawsuit on E-Book Price-Fixing" by Edward Wyatt and Nick Wingfield in The New York Times - May 14, 2013 Filings at Department of Justice web site related to U.S. v. Apple et al case Plaintiffs' Response to Apple's Pretrial Memorandum of Law (PDF) - filed May 14, 2003 at Department of Justice website Exhibit F - redacted emails in Apple case (PDF) filed May 15, 20013 "Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) Employee Says Barnes & Noble, Inc. (BKS) NOOK Deal 'Not Happening'"by David Woodburn at Insider Monkey - May 13, 2013 "Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion" by Erick Eldon and Ingrid Eldon at TechCrunch - May 8, 2013 Tech Tips AT&T Data plan Kindle Fire HD 8.9" with 4G LTE - 32GB with special offers - $399 Interview with Vivienne Roumani Out of Print web site The Last Jews of Libya web site Content  Suggestions for Spending your 500 Amazon Coins on your Kindle Fire: Mindmaps by Endare - $3.99 at Apps for Android store Insight Timer by Spotlight Six Sofware - $1.99 at Apps for Android Where's My Water? game by Disney - 99 cents at Apps for Android Osmos HD by Hemisphere Games - $2.99 at Apps for Android "Breaking news! Amazon launches Kindle Love Stories podcast" by Joyce Lamb in USA Today - May 12, 2013 Kindle Love Stories podcast web site 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. The Indy bag by Waterfield -Thanks, Eolake! Next Week's Guest Kevin Franco of Entrhill Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

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Founder of Alltop,  author of APE: Author Publisher Entrepreneur - How to Publish a Book Interview Starts at 13:55 People say, "Well, Guy, if you're successful and more people become self-publishers there's going to be more crap out there." That's true…. You could make the case that the cave-in started when Gutenberg had a printing press. Up till then you only had scribes working for the Pharaohs and the Pope and rich people. Let's just face it: that horse is out of the barn, and that horse is procreating already, so you ain't going to put it back in the barn. So now more people will write, and at least now rather than six editorial committees in New York deciding what's worth reading, now the crowd decides what's worth reading. Show Notes and Links: Intro Susan Carlson's quilts The Harpswell Inn, founded in 1761 News Kindle for iOS update - more on accessibility improvements from Peter Tighe in Austin, Texas "Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase for $1 Billion" by Eric Eldon and Ingred Lunden at Techcrunch - May 8, 2013 "Robbie Bach's four startup lessons from Xbox and Zune" by Todd Bishop at Geekwire - May 11, 2012 "Amazon Making Smartphone with 3D Screen, Dedicated Audio Streaming Device, WSJ Reports" by Darrell Etherington at TechCrunch - May 9, 2013 Tech Tips Goodreads blog The Kindle Chronicles group's tech support thread at Goodreads Interview with Guy Kawaski APE: Author Publisher Entrepreneur - How to Publish a Book by Guy Kawasaki - $9.99 on Kindle Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions by Guy Kawasaki - $9.99 on Kindle What the Plus! Google+ for the Rest of Us by Guy Kawasaki - .99 on Kindle Web site for APE Entrhill book-sale cards CreateSpace print on demand by Amazon If You Want to Write: A Book About Art, Independence, and Spirit by Brenda Ueland - $3.99 on Kindle Content Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon - $7.55 on Kindle Saints Preserve Us! Everything You Need to Know About Every Saint You'll Ever Need by Sean kelly and Roesmary Rogers - $12.99 on Kindle Living Dangerously: American Women Who Risked Their Lives for Adventure by Doreen Rappaport - $6.99 on Kindle Give Her This Day: A Daybook of Women's Words edited and compiled by Lois Stiles Edgerly - $14.38 at the Google Play store 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. Next Week's Guest Vivienne Roumani, producer-director of the new documentary Out of Print Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

New York Times writer at large, former editor of The Times' Sunday Book Review, and longtime host of The Book Review podcast Interview Starts at 16:29 When I say, "Well, Mr. Amis, it seems to me this is what your novel does," and he says, "Well no. That's exactly what it doesn't do"--part of me cringes, but I know as a listener I'm thinking, "Now Martin Amis is going to set me straight." The listener I think empathizes with the host a little bit. One is the surrogate for the listener, not the debating rival of the guest. And so to keep the questions short and simple…let the listener open up whatever direction they want to get. If they say something that makes me sound silly, I probably am silly, and if the listener is deriving something from it, all the better.  Sponsor: Try GotoMeeting with HD Faces Today Free for 30 Days! Show Notes and Links: Intro My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor - $12.99 on Kindle Emily Bazelon's review of My Beloved World in the New York Times Sunday Book Review News Jeff Bezos: Boy Billionaire 2000 History Channel documentary (41 minutes) "Long Live the Book: An Interview with Vivienne Roumani, Director of the Indie Film, 'Out of Print'" by Loren Kleinman at IndieReader - April 24, 2013 Out of Print trailer and background Kindle Kids TV Commercial Tech Tips Tom Semple's help with the updated Kindle for iOS app for text to speech George from Tulsa's tip on using an iPad charger for Kindle devices Interview with Sam Tanenhaus Book Review Podcast "Pamela Paul Named New York Times Book Review Editor" by David Freedlander in The Daily Beast - April 9, 2013 Whittaker Chambers: A Biography (1997) by Sam Tanenhaus - $15.99 on Kindle The Death of Conservatism: The Movement and its Consequences (2009) by Sam Tanenhaus - $9.99 on Kindle Content The Banks of Certain Rivers: A Novel by Jon Harrison - $2.99 on Kindle (Also available in the Kindle Owners' Lending Library if you have an Amazon Prime Membership) Option to Kill: A Nathan McBride Novel by Andrew Peterson (Kindle Serial & Kindle Owners' Lending Library) - $3.99 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. Next Week's Guest Guy Kawasaki, co-author of APE: Author Publisher Entrepreneur-How to Publish a Book Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!