The Kindle Chronicles

Curator of a free poem-of-the-week email list Interview starts at 20:34 and ends at 51:52 Links Jeff Bezos’s opening statement to Congress (YouTube) - July 29, 2020 “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox” by Lina M. Khan at The Yale Law Review - January 2017 “Amazon confirms Prime Day delay in the US” by Jon Porter at The Verge - July 21, 2020 reMarkable 2 tablet - available for pre-order at $399 iPad Pro - starting at $749 To request inclusion on Richard Bruno’s free email list for weekly poems, please email him at richardgbruno AT gmail DOT com “The familiarity of a poem: Connie Schultz” at Cleveland.com - April 13, 2011 Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” or “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Photo by Ryan Lash Host of Live On Lockdown and We’re Having a Moment Interview starts at 10:59 and ends at 51:49 Links “Antitrust hearing indefinitely postponed” by Rachel Kraus at Mashable - July 24,2020 “How to convert a PDF file for your Kindle” at The Verge Baratunde Thurston’s website Live On Lockdown "We're Having a Moment" podcast Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay Baratunde’s Patreon Page and TED talk (2019) Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” or “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.  

Author of Pandemic and other thrillers Links “Amazon pilots opening health care centers near its fulfillment centers” at Day One Blog - July 14, 2020 “What’s Ailing an Amazon Health Venture” By Paris Martineau at The Information (paywall) - July 16, 2020 Click here to subscribe to The Information Instapaper A.G. Riddle’s website A. G. Riddle’s store at Amazon.com Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” or “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Founder and CEO of @Skilltype Links Skilltype Tony Zanders at Boston University Libraries The Quantified Self movement “Why the Amazon Kindle is a bibliophile’s digital must-have” by Whitson Gordon at NBC News - July 9, 2020 Pocket to Amazon Kindle (P2k) Len’s “How to Choose a Kindle” YouTube video - June 2019 Amazon adds hands-free activation to Alexa app via GeekWire - July 7, 2020 “How to use Alexa on the Apple Watch” by Conor Allison at Wareable - January 8, 2020 Echo Frames at Amazon.com Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Senior Editor-Trade Books at Amazon.com Links Erin Kodicek’s links at The Amazon Book Review Amazon Book Review Podcast Amazon’s 2020 Best Books of the Year So Far Next Week’s Guest Tony Zanders, Founder & CEO of Skilltype Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of Mop Rides the Waves of Life: A Story of Mindfulness and Surfing Interview starts at 0:59 and ends at 33:44 Links Mop Rides the Waves of Life: A Story of Mindfulness and Surfing by Jaimal Yogis and Matt Allen - available for pre-order, with release on June 30, 2020 Jaimal Yogis’s web site, including these videos: How to Surf Your Emotions, 1-Minute Meditation For Kids (And Kids at Heart), Guided Ocean Meditation for Sleep and Relaxation Previous books by Jaimal Yogis: Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer’s Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (2009), The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Survival, Success, Surfing...and Love (2013), and All Our Waves Are Water: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment and the Perfect Ride (2017) Pacific Primary Amazon announces acquisition of Zoox at Day One Blog - June 26, 2020 “Amazon Shakes Up the Race for Self-Driving--and Ride-Hailing” by Aarian Marshall at Wired - June 26, 2020 Zoox demo drive (YouTube) - April 17, 2020 Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Ryan and Jake learning Beach Buggy 2 in the Tesla Interview starts at 50:01 and ends at 45:04 Links “Amazon plans summer sale for June 22 to ‘jumpstart sales’ after coronavirus crunch” by Annie Palmer at CNBC - June 2, 2020 “Amazon introduces ‘Distance Assistant’” by Brad Porter at Day One blog - June 16, 2020 LEGO NINJAGO Ninja Tuner Car kit (419 pieces) - $32 at Amazon.com Wonder Workshop Dash robot for Kids 6+ ($150 at Amazon.com) Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French Pete the Cat: Snow Daze by James Dean Radio Garden Mop Rides the Waves of Life: A Story of Mindfulness and Surfing by Jaimal Yogis and Matt Allen - available for pre-order, with release on June 30, 2020 Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.    

Photo Credit: Fortune Magazine Author of Bezonomics: How Amazon is Changing Our Lives  and What the World’s Best Companies Are Learning from It Interview starts at 14:21 and ends at 49:03 Links “Jeff Bezos’s Instagram Posts Are a Lesson in How to Respond to a Crisis” by Minda Zetlin at Inc. - June 10, 2020 Echo Frames Echo Buds “Amazon launches two new Kindle Paperwhite colors” by Jay Peters at The Verge - June 10, 2020 Kindle Paperwhite “Amazon Fire HD 8 has one tiny feature I’d love to see in new iPad Pros” by Tom Bedford at techradar - June 5, 2020 Brian Dumaine at Linkedin “The cost of keeping schools closed will be dreadful” by Tim Harford at Financial Times - June 12, 2020.  Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of The Voter File (Photo © Claire Salzman) Interview starts at 16:23 and ends at 43:41 Links Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 8 Plus Fire HD Plus bundled with Wireless Charging Dock “You can Now Permanently Delete Kindle eBooks on Kindle Devices” by Nathan at theebbookreader.com - July 2, 2020 OverDrive app for Fire tables Books in the Jack Sharpe series by David Pepper: The People’s House (Book 1), The Wingman (Book 2), and The Voter File (Book 3) David Pepper at Linkedin, Twitter, and Facebook Next Week’s Guest Brian Dumaine, author of Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives, and What the World’s Companies Are Learning From It Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Manager, Amazon Literary Partnership Interview starts at 12:49 and ends at 46:59 Links “Amazon Echo Look No More - Another Alexa Device Discontinued” by Bret Kinsella at voicebot.ai - May 29, 2020 Alexandra Woodworth at Linkedin Amazon Literary Partnership Artist Relief Deep Vellum Publishing City of Asylum LitNet Amazon Book Review Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City by Fang Fang Academy of American Poets How to suspend a Hold on OverDrive My Must Reads app Libro.fm Next Week’s Guest David Pepper, author of The Voter File, available for pre-order with delivery June 2, 2020 Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.