The Kindle Chronicles TKC 418 AmazonCrossing's Gabriella Page-Fort
Senior Editor, AmazonCrossing
Interview starts at 17:02 and ends at 38:04
[Ayse Kulin] is one of many distinguished voices from diverse cultures that we’ve had the pleasure of publishing, and I think she’s actually a really great example of what it is that we’re trying to do here at AmazonCrossing
News
“Amazon Resumes Selling Amazon’s Gadgets Four Years After Rift” by Shannon Pettypiece at Bloomberg - August 4, 2016
“Amazon to test drone delivery in partnership with UK government” by Nicky Woolf and Samuel Gibbs at The Guardian - July 25, 2016
Dromida Kodo drone
Amazon Prime Air (YouTube video) - December 1, 2013
“Amazon’s ‘Prime Air’ Cargo Plane is Ready to Deliver Your Packages” at NBC - August 5, 2016
“See Amazon’s Massive New ‘Prime Air’ Cargo Jet Plane” at Time - August 5, 2016
“Amazon’s latest weapon in the e-commerce wars: Its own air force” by Sarah Halzack at The Washington Post - August 5, 2016
Holy Stone RC dump truck at Amazon.com
Tech Tips
Kindle Unlimited audiobooks
“7 Ways to Take Full Advantage of Your Kindle” by Joel Lee at MakeUseOf.com - August 4, 2016
Interview with Gabriella Page-Fort
“How Amazon came to dominate fiction in translation” by Alison Flood at The Guardian - December 9, 2015
Love in Exile by Ayse Kulin, translated into English by Kenneth Dakan
Other books translated from Turkish into English by Kenneth Dakan
Last Train to Istanbul: A Novel by Ayse Kulin, translated into English by John W. Baker
Books by Louise Erdrich
Escape by Perihan Magden, translated by Kenneth Dakan
Ali and Ramazan by Perihan Magden, translated by Ruth Whitehouse
Farewell: A Mansion in Occupied Istanbul by Ayse Kulin, translated into English by Kenneth Dakan
Content
Rage by Zygmunt Miloszewski, translated into English by Antonia Lloyd-Jones and available for free with a Kindle Unlimited subscription
Vellum - a Mac app for formatting eBooks
“Vellum Review: App offers a sleeker way to build ebooks” by Serenity Caldwell at Macworld - January 8, 2014
“Last Call for Summer Reading: 9 Books You’ll Kick Yourself for Not Picking Up” by Adrian Liang at Amazon’s Omnivoracious blog - July 28, 2016
Next Week’s Guest
Sara Nelson, Amazon’s editorial director who last month moved to HarperCollins as vice president, executive editor and special advisor to the publisher.
Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.
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