Author of the Making Book blog
Interview starts at 14:03 and ends at 44:31
"The idea that Barnes & Noble can make it by sort of becoming a small specialist, cozy bookstore is kind of delusional. It’s a big organization!"
News
Jeff Bezos’s tweet announcing first Prime Air delivery - December 14, 2016
Jeremy Clarkson Prime Air video - November, 2015
Amazon White Papers on recommended drone access policy and revised air space model
WSJ Tech News Briefing podcast on Prime Air
More coverage of Prime Air at Wired, BBC, PC Magazine, and ABC
BBC http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38320067
Tech Tip
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“Amazon Fire TV Interface gets a makeover with new 5.2.4.0 firmware” by Alejandro at htpc Beginner - December 2, 2016
Software update 5.8.7 for Kindle Oasis
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Interview with Richard Hollick
Making Book blog
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) by George R. R. Martin
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with More Ways) by Eliot Weinberger
“Dylan’s Nobel” at Making Book - December 13, 2016
“Bob Dylan: The Music Travels, the Poetry Stays Home” by Tim Parks at The New York Review of Books - October 16, 2016
The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World by Brad Stone - available on Kindle at $15.99 for pre-order with delivery January 31, 2017
“B&N’s Misunderstanding” at Making Book - November 16, 2016
“Google Deletes Artist’s Blog: He Has No Backup, and Only Himself to Blame” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - July 14, 2016
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Matthew Rubery, author of The Untold Story of the Talking Book, published last month by Harvard University Press. Click here for the Audible version.
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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