The Kindle Chronicles

Member of Amazon's original Kindle development team author of Burning the Page: The eBook revolution and the future of reading Interview Starts at 19:16 I love Amazon in the sense that it really understands building things in what I'll call an agile way. You start small, and you build and build and build and build. The Kindle doesn't have to be perfect in 2005 or 2006, but you keep making it more and more perfect over time. And when there's enough goodness accreted around it, then you say, "Wow, it's ready for prime time" and you launch.   Sponsor: Try GotoMeeting with HD Faces Today Free for 30 Days! Show Notes and Links: Intro Opening of RTD W Line from Denver to Golden - Denver Post story April 26, 2013 Tremont Street Subway at Wikipedia News "Amazon trims Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite Wi-Fi prices in Canada…" by Emil Protalinski in The Next Web - April 25, 2013 Kindle and Paperwhite at www.amazon.ca "Kobo Aura HD review: a high-end e-reader with 'niche' written all over it" by Brian Heater at engadget - April 23, 2013 Kobo Aura HD web site Items of Interest Not Mentioned in Podcast "Senate delays action on Internet sales tax bill" by AP's Stephen Ohlemacher in The Seattle Times - April 25, 2013 "Internet Sales Taxes Are Inevitable" by Matthew Yglesias in Slate - April 23, 2013 2012 Amazon press release supporting Internet Sales Tax legislation Amazon's first-quarter earnings release - April 26, 2013 Tech Tips How to find authors like other authors at Goodreads - Paul Bowles, for example Three books I'm currently reading Kindle for Android gets an update. Interview with Jason Merkoski Burning the Page: The eBook Revolution and the Future of Reading by Jason Merkoski - $7.69 on Kindle Content The Spider's House: A Novel by Paul Bowles - $9.78 on Kindle Bedfellows: A Novel by Bob Garfield - $3.99 on Kindle with Whispersync for Voice ($1.99). Also available as free borrow at Kindle Owners' Lending Library. Bob Garfield interviewed by Leonard Lopate on WNYC Radio - December 12, 2012 Where's the Water? - 99-cent game for Kindle Fire mentioned in Digital Disruption by James McQuivey 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 new Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard Librarian, and key visionary for Digital Public Library of America Interview Starts at 16:16 Now the strategy is not to have a five-year plan with an enormous budget of that sort but rather one that would involve beginning from a core of already digitized collections that we will make available on Thursday [April 18, 2013], and then growing and growing incrementally and then looking for funding as we need it. Show Notes and Links: News "Amazon Wants You to Talk to Your Next Kindle Fire" by Evan Niu at Motley Fool - April 18, 2013 The Motley Fool Money podcast at iTunes Engadget review of the new Kobo Aura HD dedicated eReader "Penguin to Drop Apple E-Book Deal to Settle EU Antitrust Probe" by John Paczkowski at All Things D - April 19, 2013 Tech Tips ReaderRocket site for comparing eReaders Targus stylus for $9.89 Luzme tracker of eBook price drops Atavist launches its content creator tool, Creativist, in beta Interview with Robert Darnton "Now, With No Further Ado, We Present…the Digital Public Library of America!" by Rebecca J. Rosen at TheAtlantic.com - April 16, 2013 "The National Digital Public Library Is Launched!" by Robert Darnton at The New York Review of Books Digital Public Library of America Content Music of Silence: A Sacred Journey Through the Hours of the Day by Brother David Steindl-Rast and Sharon Lebell; Introduction by Kathleen Norris - $8.69 on Kindle "Evan Williams' Medium acquires long-form journalism site Matter" by Laura Hazard Owen at paidContent - April 17, 2013 Digital Public Library of America Brian Mockenhaupt wins The Atlantic's $25,000 Michael Kelly award for his Byliner Original, The Living and the Dead, which he talked about on TKC 224 in November, 2012 To get you Free Offer for TKC listeners good through Wednesday April 24th for One Year Lived by Adam Shepard, go to Adam's website and log in as  slimshep12@gmail.com . Enter the password 123456 . Not mentioned on podcast but still of note: "Ray Bradbury, Finally Coming to an E-Reader Near You" by Lauren Indvik at Mashable - April 12, 2013; Ray Bradbury's books available 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. Upcoming Guests Jason Merkoski, author of Burning the Page  Sam Tanenhaus, writer-at-large and former Book Review editor at The New York Times Please Join the new Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Founder and CEO of Goodreads.com Interview Starts at 9:43 Goodreads is a place today for readers of all platforms, no matter how they read the book--whether it be a Kindle or Nook or a physical book, etc., to share what they thought of the book and find new books. And that's not going to change. I think a lot of people have been having the misconception that that would change. That's something that's just fundamental to Goodreads, and if we changed it, it would just be so negative that we're not even considering that.  Sponsor: Try GotoMeeting with HD Faces Today Free for 30 Days! Show Notes and Links: News Goodreads Tech Tip ReDigi update AmazonBasics stylus for $9.89 Interview with Otis Chandler Tools of Change interview with Chandler (video) - February 13, 2013 BiblioStar.TV interview with Chandler (video) - November 13, 2012 Wikipedia entry for Otis Chandler's grandfather Content Book Review podcast with Sam Tanenhaus and Leslie Kaufman - April 7, 2013 "Thin Reads Wants to Be Like 'Publishers Weekly' for E-Book Singles" by Seth Fiegerman at Mashable - April 8, 2013 Thin Reads Kindle Singles Byliner The Atavist Matter Comments Amazon forum thread: Price Dropped Kindle eBooks II Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories by Charles Bukowski - $2.99 on Kindle Jon Stewart: Beyond the Moments of Zen by Bruce Watson - $2.99 on Kindle Price discount on Kindle Fire at amazon.co.uk Weston Super Mare Pier Fire 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 Robert Darnton, key visionary for the National Digital Public Library, which is scheduled to go live on April 18th. Please Join the new Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Author of Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now Interview Starts at 17:33 Remember we were going to write in our underwear from our homes and do what we wanted and and slack? And then it slowly but surely turned into this kind of poster child for the NASDAQ stock exchange, this way of monitoring people's employees, making sure--instead of us working in our own time--we're always on, all the time in real-time availability. Which is the opposite, right? So instead of being smarter online because we've gone offline to write stuff and post it, we're stupid online, because we're trying to keep up with things in the moment. "Oh, there's this post at 8:20; I've got to post by 8:31 or the Twitter feed's going to be gone without me." And that's just not taking advantage of what this digital age could be about. Sponsor: Try GotoMeeting with HD Faces Today Free for 30 Days!  Show Notes and Links: News "The deal Goodreads should've struck (hint: it wasn't with Amazon)" by Craig Mod at PaidContent - March 30, 2013 "BusinessWeek's billion-dollar boo-boo" by Ryan Chittum at Columbia Journalism Review - March 29, 2013 "Why Didn't Someone Else Buy Goodreads Before Amazon?" by James McQuivey of Forrester Research - March 29, 2013 Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation by James McQuivey - $5.35 on Kindle "Amazon purchase of Goodreads stuns book industry" by Alison Flood at The Guardian - April 2, 2013 "The National Digital Public Library Is Launched!" by Robert Darnton at The New York Review of Books Digital Public Library of America Tech Tip Beware of ReDigi! Kindle Direct Publishing Interview with Douglas Rushkoff recorded on April 1, 2013 Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now by Douglas Rushkoff - $12.99 on Kindle Brian Lehrer's interview with Rushkoff - March 20, 2013 Proceedings (PDF download) of the Unified Field Summit on Art, Science and Spirituality (2002) moderated by Douglas Rushkoff and hosted by the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) at the Aspen Institute Content Clutter Rehab: 101 Tips and Tricks to Become an Organization Junkie and Love It! By Laura Wittman - $9.39 on Kindle Home Organization For Stress Free Living: How To Organize Your Home One Day At A Time And Keep It That Way By Karen Pettine - $2.99 on Kindle The Busy Mom's Guide To Stress Free Organization: How To Organize, Clean, And Keep Your Home Stress Free By Brian Night - $2.99 on Kindle Free "Spring Cleaning apps" for Kindle Fire: Evernote, BillMinder, Grocery IQ, and Remember The Milk Wait for You by J. Lynn - $2.99 on Kindle Lesterland:The corruption of Congress and How to End It by Lawrence Lessig - $2.99 on Kindle Lessig's TED talk on Lesterland Rootstrikers.org 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 Otis Chandler, founder and CEO of Goodreads Please Join the new Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Business Manager at New York University Press  Interview Starts at 23:21 In terms of what we're projecting for the end of '13, we think we're going to come in at about 14 percent all-electronic, and the vast majority of that is currently Kindle. Fifty percent of eBook sales are going through Kindle…Nook is actually way down our ladder. Nook is our fifth-best performing ePlatform. This is a lot to do with the nature of the books where we have a lot of library market, and they want PDF or they want straight ePub. I guess Nook just can't compete with that. Sponsor: Try GotoMeeting with HD Faces Today Free for 30 Days! Show Notes and Links: News News release announcing Amazon's acquisition of Goodreads - March 28, 2013 Otis Chandler's post about the acquisition "'First do no harm': My interview with Amazon and Goodreads on the future of Goodreads" by Laura Hazard Owen - March 28, 2013 My exchange of Goodreads messages with Otis Chandler in August, 2010 "Amazon Buys Goodreads. Take That, Bookish!" by Jeff Bercovici in Forbes - March 28, 2013 "Rampant Speculation: How Much Did Amazon Pay for Goodreads?" by Kyle Stock at Bloomberg Businessweek" - March 29, 2013 Note: After I recorded the episode, numerous reports appeared sharply challenging Stock's estimate of a sales price for Goodreads of "somewhere close to, but not quite, $1 billion." To wit: Business Insider and Kara Swisher, whose sources put the purchase price at between $150 million and $200 million.  Patrick Brown of Vroman's Bookstore interviews Otis Chandler in 2009 (?) - audio file. LibraryThing founder Tim Spalding's post titled "How to succeed in an Amazon/Goodreads world" - March 28, 2013 Free Goodreads app at Amazon's Appstore for Android Tech Tips Kindle Touch software update to version 5.3.2.1 Kindle Fire (2nd generation) software update to version 10.3.0 Kindle Fire HD 7" software update to version 7.3.0 Kindle Fire HD 8.9" software update to version 8.3.0 Worldwide Kindle Support portal Interview with Tom Helleberg "Record-Breaking Kickstarter Turns Hamlet Into a Choose-Your-Adventure Epic" by Laura Hudson in Wired - December 20, 2012 "To Be or Not To Be: That is the Adventure" Kickstarter page Ryan North Signet Classic Shakespeare Hamlet by William Shakespeare - $4.99 on Kindle Decision Points by George W. Bush - $13.99 on Kindle Association of Research Libraries (Tom's reference to "ARLs" in the interview was to members of this association) University Press Content Consortium EBSCO eBooks (formerly netLibrary) ebrary Nook Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide by Henry Jenkins - $9.99 on Kindle Boulder (CO) Public Library eBrary case study OverDrive Content Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now by Douglas Rushkoff - $12.99 on Kindle Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture by Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford and Joshua Green - $12.10 on Kindle Longform Podcast with Joel Lovell, deputy editor of The New York Times Magazine, discussing his profile of the short story writer George Saunders. (If paywall blocks you, try Googling "George Saunders New York Times Magazine.") Tenth of December: Stories by George Saunders - $12.99 on Kindle Amazon expands X-Ray to TV shows Justified on Amazon Instant Video (free for Prime Members) 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 Douglas Rushkoff, author of Present Shock

This episode is sponsored by GoToMeeting Author of Asperger Love: Searching for Romance When You're Not Wired to Connect Interview Starts at 22:42 I was so impressed by Jack and Kirsten's perseverance in trying to explain themselves to each other. Here they have this condition that makes it hard to put yourself in somebody else's shoes. It makes it hard just to understand in a kind of intuitive way what someone else is thinking. It made me think about my own relationships and how hard it is for all of us to do that. Even those of us who have neurological tools to do that, it's kind of the quintessential challenge of all relationships, to explain yourself to somebody else and to understand someone else.  Show Notes and Links: News "Ebook Growth Slows for Adult Trade to 21% in Nov." by Jeremy Greenfield at Digital Book World - March 20, 2013 "Amazon Kindle Shipments expected to drop in March and April" by Sammi Huang at DigiTimes - March 21, 2013 Kindle App available for Blackberry Z10 "Amazon Rumored To Be Working on a $99 7-Inch Kindle Fire HD" by Sarah Perez at TechCrunch - March 20, 2013 Amazon announces "Send to Kindle Button" now in use at The Washington Post, Time, BoingBoing, A Kindle World, and The Kindle Chronicles Tech Tip How to use the Send to Kindle Button Send to Kindle button general information for bloggers WordPress plug-in for Send to Kindle button Interview with Amy Harmon "Asperger Love" by Amy Harmon at Byliner and Amazon Amy Harmon's New York Times page "The DNA Age" 2008 series for which Amy Harmon won a Pulitzer Prize in 2008 Autism Speaks home page "Navigating Love and Autism" by Amy Harmon in The New York Times (with video clips) - December 26, 2011 New York Times e-singles published with Byliner Content "What is the Business of Literature?" by Richard Nash in The Virginia Quarterly Review - Spring, 2013 Douglas Rushkoff interview in The Verge - March 21, 2013 Other Rushkoff interviews during his book tour Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now by Douglas Rushkoff - $12.99 on Kindle The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control by Ted Striphas - $11.39 on Kindle Marginalia survey 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 Tom Helleberg, finance manager at NYU Press.

Interview Starts at 16:01 Mark: We hear that grandfather clock chime from time to time when you are in Denver. Can you tell me a little bit more about that clock? Len: It's actually my great-grandfather's clock. It's my father's mother's father, Col. William B. Skelton, who lived in Lewiston, Maine. It's a seven-day chiming clock I have to wind up each Sunday. So it bongs the hour, and sometimes it makes its way onto the podcast. It keeps pretty good time. It only loses five or 10 minutes a week. Show Notes and Links: News Jeff Bezos interview with Charlie Rose (video) on November 16, 2012 "Amazon much-fanfared smartphone may be delayed, say sources" by Sammi Huang and Steve Shen in DigiTimes - March 11, 2013 "What Happens to Publishers and Authors If a Used Ebook Market Becomes Legal?" by Jeremy Greenfield in Forbes - March 11, 2013 "Judge Refuses to Shut Down Online Market for Used MP3s" by David Kravets in Wired - February 7, 2013 ReDigi web site Barnes & Noble comment on generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) names application by Amazon Author's Guild (Scott Turow) comment on closed generic TLDs Amazon's comments on closed generic TLDs Tech Tips How to navigate home page on Kindle Touch and Kindle Paperwhite My "How to Touch a Kindle Paperwhite" tutorial - October 28, 2012 Len Edgerly Interview by Mark Roberts Westside church of Christ in Irving, Texas Pressing On: The Magazine for Growing Christians, available for Kindle subscription for $10 a year Wayland, Mass. Belmont Hill School The Harvard Crimson The Woonsocket Call The Providence Journal The Casper Star-Tribune Content "Self-Published Title Hits No. 1 on EBook Best-Seller List for First Time" by Jeremy Greenfield at Digital Book World - March 12, 2013 Wait for You by Jennifer L. Armentrout writing as J. Lynn - $2.99 for Kindle The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach - $7.99 for Kindle The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins - $5.00 for Kindle Asperger Love: Searching for Romance When You're Not Wired to Connect by Amy Harmon - $2.99 for Kindle Comments Books by Frederick Forsyth at the Kindle Store Jawbone JAMBOX Wireless Bluetooth Speaker - $159.24 at Amazon.com 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. Thanks to enzo_the_baker and cyberbiker2 for your recent reviews of my podcast at the iTunes Store. You can help spread the word about The Kindle Chronicles by leaving a review at iTunes. Click here and then click the blue “View in iTunes” button. From there, click on “Ratings and Reviews.” Thanks! Dedication: I would like to dedicate this episode to Kes Woodward and Dorli McWayne as they prepare to exchange vows on Saturday, March 16th, in the studio in Fairbanks, Alaska, where Kes creates his stunning paintings of birches, landscapes and people.

President of Nelson Literary Agency, LLC Literary agent for Hugh Howey, author of Wool Interview Starts at 11:35 The reader is having a lot of power, which technically they always have had, because anybody that they love and follow and make big--be it Nora Roberts or John Grisham or Nicholas Sparks or Debbie Macomber--obviously that's sending a signal to publishers that they want to see more material along those lines. But what's happening now is it's consolidating into more real time and that a lot of indie authors are having success self-publishing, because for whatever reason--maybe their project didn't seem mainstream enough or wasn't filling X, Y, and Z slot or what have you--but then the readers decided, "I really like this; I want more of it."   Show Notes and Links: News "After a Roller-Coaster Ride, Ebook Prices Have Stabilized Somewhat in 2013" by Jeremy Greenfield at Digital Book World - March 5, 2013 "Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9 Pre-Orders Now Being Accepted in Japan" by Ken Mildenhall at Gadget Insiders - March 5, 2013 March 3, 2013 Self-Published Authors Helping Other Authors blog report of Jamie McGuire's problem with her Beautiful Disaster novel. And the resolution. Tech Tips An enhancement to the Send to Kindle extension for Google Chrome (thanks, Tom Semple) Amazon's page on the Chrome extension "Kindle Fire HD Problems: What Users Complain About Most" by Simon Hill in Digital Trends - March 6, 2013 Simon Hill's suggestions for alternate third-party email apps for Fire:  K-9 Mail (free), Kaiten Mail (free) or  Enhanced Email ($9.99). Amazon Appstore for Android Kristin Nelson Interview Wall Street Journal story and video on Hugh Howie's deal with Simon & Schuster - March 7, 2013 Kristin Nelson's literary agency web site and her blog,  Pub Rants Wool Omnibus Edition (Wool 1-5) by Hugh Howey - $5.99 on Kindle Amazon author page for Hugh Howey Hugh Howey's guest column in IndieReader about Ridley Scott's decision to make Wool into a movie Fifty Shades Trilogy by E L James - $28.99 on Kindle Bared to You: A Crossfire Novel by Sylvia Day - $9.99 on Kindle Hugh Howey's scheduled reading at The Tattered Cover Book Store March 15 at 7:30 p.m. Content Wool - Part One by Hugh Howey - free on Kindle Wool Omnibus Edition by Hugh Howey - $5.99 on Kindle Works of L.M. Montgomery - Complete Anne of Green Gables (Illustrated)- $2.99 at U.S. Kindle Store Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life by Gretchen Rubin - $12.99 on Kindle Gretchn Rubin's The Happiness Project "Bookish's Dirty Little Secret" by Peter Winkler at Huffington Post - February 20, 2013 Bookish website Comments "Closing the Book" CBC Ideas podcast on January 31, 2011 "Opening the Book" CBC Ideas podcast on February 25, 2011 dealnews site The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach - $7.99 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 Interview Guest:  I will be on the other end of the microphone next week, having agreed to a suggestion by long-time listener Mark Roberts of Bedford, Texas, that I use an interview to answer questions about my own experience and perspectives on the Kindle and eBooks instead of the normal interview setup. So Mark, who is the preacher at Westside church of Christ in Irving, Texas, will be asking the questions for TKC 241, and I will do my best to answer them. Mark's ministry includes an innovative all-digital monthly publication titled Pressing On: The Magazine for Growing Christians, available for Kindle subscription for $10 a year. You can help spread the word about The Kindle Chronicles by leaving a review at iTunes!

Author of Homeland Interview Starts at 18:13 You could imagine a million conceptual ways that you could design that feature (eBook updates) so that it doesn't put people at risk. Such as, having the device poll a server to find out if there are any updates for its files and then notifying the owner of the device when there are updates and allowing the owner to choose and also, for example, saving the old version so the owner could revert if the update turned out to be faulty in some way. If you wanted to maximize the utility of the Kindle to owners instead of maximize the ability to do creepy, Orwellian junk with it that's how you'd do it. Show Notes and Links: News "Barnes & Noble Rethinks Its Strategy for the Nook" - New York Times article by Leslie Kaufman on February 28, 2013 "Kindle App Updates Demonstrate iOS App Store Flaw" by Jeff Carlson at TidBITS - February 27, 2013 Kindle Paperwhite ad "Perfect at the Beach" Amazon Customer Discussion comments about the ad Tech Tips How to donate a Kindle to E-Books for Troops Eolake Stobblehouse's blog post on adding fonts to your Kindle Paperwhite More info on fonts procedure at eBook Reader E-Books for Troops "On a roll: why E Ink is still the leader in e-paper"by Dr. Guillaume Chansin at Printed Electronics World - Feb 20, 2013 Cory Doctorow Interview Cory Doctorow's home page Cory Doctorow's listing at Wikipedia Aaron Swartz's obituary in The New York Times - January 12, 2013 Boing Boing blog Homeland by Cory Doctorow - $9.99 on Kindle Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - $9.99 on Kindle Lawful interception listing at Wikipedia Zero-Day exploits - Wikipedia Barnaby Jack report of vulnerability of implanted heart defibrillators - via The Register. New York Times account of Amazon's deletion of Orwell books in 2009 Doctorow video by Steve Davidson of Amazing Stories Magazine at Gibson's Bookstore in Concord, NH on 2/24/13 Doctorow interviews at the O'Reilly Tools of Change conference in NYC Content Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation by James McQuivey - $7.99 on Kindle Video blurb for Digital Disruption "Justified" and "The Shield" available at Prime Instant Video - Amazon press release on February 26, 2013 "Justified" Season 1 Pilot episode at Amazon Prime Instant Video Salon article on January 7, 2013 by Kristopher Jansma on interconnections between Elmore Leonard's fiction and the "Justified" TV series New York Times added to Flipboard Kindle Fire app Wool Omnibus Edition (Wool 1-5) by Hugh Howey - $5.99 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 Interview Guest:  Denver literary agent Kristin Nelson, whose clients include Hugh Howey.

Editorial Director, Digital Book World Interview Starts at 18:15 QED stands for Quality, Excellence, Design and essentially it's the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval for eBooks and digital book production … Not all eBooks are created the same. Obviously the words are different, and the stories are different, but the formatting is also different. Some of them are formatted beautifully, and they create a great experience for the reader, almost a transparent experience. You don't think about the formatting, because you're just reading the book. And then let's just say some are less than great. Show Notes and Links: News "DRM Lawsuit Filed by Independent Bookstores Against Amazon, 'Big Six' Publishers" - Huffington Post 2/20/13 Cory Doctorow's comment on DRM lawsuit Average eBook Bestseller prices hit new low - Digital Book World 2/19/13 "Your next Kindle could be embedded in your car"- Gigaom 2/20/13 Tech Tips Newsweek app at Amazon's Appstore for Android - $2.99 a month or $29.99 a year Newsweek Kindle subscription - $2.99 a month Newsweek digital subscription at Newsweek's website - $2.99 a month or $24.99 a year New York Review of Books Kindle/Fire/iPad subscription - $3.49 a month Jeremy Greenfield Interview Articles by Jeremy Greenfield at Digital Book World QED page at Digital Book World eBook Architects/Firebrand Technologies Digital Book World home page Bookish Finding the Future of Digital Book Publishing: "Interviews With 19 Innovative Ebook Business Leaders Edited by Jeremy Greenfield - $4.61 on Kindle Content Sesame Street: Divorce app for Kindle Fire - free Accessorize Portable Bluetooth Wireless Mini Speaker - $28.99 at Amazon.com "It's Beyoncé's World and We're Just Living in it" by ZZ Packer in Newsweek - 2/15/13 Decoded by Jay-Z - $14.99 at Kindle Store  (Available for free borrowing at Denver Public Library) HBO GO app at Appstore for Android Homeland by Cory Doctorow - $9.99 at the Kindle Store "Unfriending Big Brother," by Tom Shippey, a glowing Wall Street Journal review of Homeland - 2/19/13 Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - $9.99 at the Kindle Store

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