The Kindle Chronicles

My Wife and Sophie on the upper deck in Maine Interview starts at 13:26 and ends at 51:35 Links “The Amazon Kindle is doomed, unless it uses color e-paper” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - May 18, 2020 PhoneSoap UV-C sanitizing devices Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir by Jennifer McGaha The Professional Book Nerds Podcast 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.

Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research Interview starts at 16:22 and ends at 53:61 Links Amazon press release on new HD 8 tablets - May 13, 2020 “Amazon upgrades its Fire HD 8 Tablet” by David Carnoy at CNET - May 13, 2020 Readwise “The Future of Work Starts Now” by James McQuivey at Forrester Research - April 20, 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.

Associate Director - instructional support and development Harvard Graduate School of Education Interview starts at 9:28 and ends at 50:27 Links DK Readers L2: Star Wars: The Adventures of BB-8 by David Fentiman Josh Bookin Harvard Graduate School of Education Harvard Graduate School of Education site on teaching remotely  Harvard-wide site on teaching remotely A site from University of Michigan about online teaching Zoom Canvas 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 King of Warsaw Interview starts at 10:30 and ends at 42:02 Links Amazon First Quarter Earnings press release - April 30, 2020 “Amazon Says It Will Forgo Billions in Profits to Invest into Worker Safety Measures” by Lauren Debter at Forbes - April 30, 2020 The King of Warsaw by Szczepan Twardoch translated by Sean Gasper Bye Male Fantasies, Vol. 2: Male Bodies - Psychoanalyzing the White Terror by Klaus Theweleitf 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 Pandemic and other science thrillers Interview starts at 18:39 and ends at 52:01 Links “Bezos Takes Back the Wheel at Amazon” by Karen Weise at The New York Times - April 22, 2020 Jay Carney interview with Brian Stelter - March 29, 2020 Jeff Bezos’s Letter to Shareholders - April 16, 2020 “Will you buy the Pocketbook Color?” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - April 23, 202 Books by A. G. Riddle 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.

Director of Brand Marketing and Communication at OverDrive Interview starts at 13:08 and ends at 55:48 Links “How Are Indie and SFF Bookstores Weathering the Coronavirus Outbreak?” By Andrew Liptak at Tor.com - April 15, 2020 “Survey of Independent Bookstores Shows Coronavirus Toll” by Alex Green at Publishers Weekly - April 8, 2020 The Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver “Audiobooks and literacy: a rapid review of the literature” at National Literacy Trust in London - February 17, 2020  Link to full report (PDF) by Emily Best OverDrive OverDrive’s Libby app Certified B Corporation Big Library Read Funny, You Don’t Look Autistic: A Comedian’s Guide to Life on the Spectrum by Michael McCreary Blog of Steve Potash, Founder and CEO of OverDrive Panorama Project #eBooksForAll Amazon Crossing’s nine free titles for World Book Day The King of Warsaw: A Novel by Szczepan Twardoch available for pre-order from Amazon Crossing with release on April 21, 2020 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson 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 Devoted, published March 31, 2020 by Thomas & Mercer Interview starts at 18:15 and ends at 49:40 Links Macmillan CEO John Sargent’s letter rescinding changes in eBook pricing to libraries - March 17, 2020 “Macmillan Abandons Library E-book Embargo” by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - March 17, 2020. “Macmillan lifts library ebook embargo; DBW ban ends” by Bradley Metrock at Digital Book World - March 17, 2020 Audible Captions demo (video) “Amazon extends its US and Canada returns window to May 31” by Ben Fox Rubin at CNET - April 3, 2020 “Amazon and Apple Strike Deal for Prime Video In-App Purchases and Subscriptions” by John Gruger at Daring Fireball - April 2, 2020 Dean Koontz on Twitter Devoted by Dean Koontz Other books by Dean Koontz mentioned in the interview: Watchers (1999); The Eyes of Darkness (1981); Innocence (2013); Elsewhere (available for pre-order, ships October 20, 2020); the Moonlight Bay series (2 books first published in 1997 and 1998); the Odd Thomas series (6 books, the first published in 2003); the Jane Hawk series (5 books, the first published in 2017) Canine Companions for Independence Archaea microbe (Wikipedia) A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog Named Trixie by Dean Koontz 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.

Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research Links “How Employees Feel About Coronavirus: Early Results from Forrester’s PandemicEX Survey” by James McQuivey at Forrester blog - March 11, 2020 Jeff Bezos’s letter to employees In-N-Out Burger’s Coronavirus statement - March 24, 2020 More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War by Kenneth C. Davis (not mentioned in interview, but of possible interest) “Forrester Future Fit”: How Fit Are You?” By James McQuivey - April 1, 2019 “Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World” By Michael Pollan (Audible) Man Runs Marathon on Balcony in France (YouTube) Devoted by Dean Koontz 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.

My Wife at Sunrise in Ocean Park, Maine Links Jeff Bezos’s letter to employees “Will Covid-19 change how Amazon-Haters See Amazon?” By David Enzel at Medium - March 24, 2020 “Amazon’s COVID-19 blog” at Day One - March 27, 2020 “What I Learned When My Husband Got Sick With Coronavirus” by Jessica Lustig at The New York Times - March 24, 2020 PSA Safe Grocery Shopping in COVID-19 Pandemic (YouTube) - March 24, 2020 “The new iPad Pro isn’t a laptop replacement. It’s better than that” by Jeremy White at Wired - March 24, 2020 “Ramblin’ Boy” by Tom Paxton (YouTube) Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems (YouTube) 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 A Drop of Midnight: A Memoir Links Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité on Facebook, Instagram, and Wikipedia and YouTube Jason’s performance at Harlem Sound Stage (rescheduled for October) 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.