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.

Author of Pandemic and other thrillers Interview starts at 1:05 and ends at 39:20 Links A G Riddle’s website My father’s poem, “Transition” (video) Next week’s guest: Jason Diakité, author of A Drop of Midnight: A Memoir 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 Facebook: The Inside Story Links Facebook: The Inside Story by Steven Levy In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy (2011) “‘Facebook: The Inside Story’ author Steven Levy on how the company compares to Apple and Google” by Casey Newton at The Verge - February 26, 2020 “The Social Network” - 2010 movie on Prime Video “The Alternate Universe Where Facebook Bought Twitter” by Steven Levy at Wired - March 6, 2020 Click here to for access to Steven Levy’s Plaintext weekly newsletter, bundled with a great price for Print + Digital Access to Wired: 1 year for $5. Lawrence Lessig “South By Southwest Has Been Canceled Because of the Coronavirus” by Aaron Mak at Slate - March 6, 2020 Statement by SXSW 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.

Executive Director of Digital Book World Links “Amazon’s top spokesman: We want to question Trump over ‘blatant political interference’ in Pentagon cloud contract decision” by Annie Palmer at CNBC - February 12, 2020 “Why Bernie Sanders Praised Amazon” by Jay Carney at The New York Times - February 10, 2010 “Amazon Kindle to include more options in the font menu” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - February 19, 2020 Kindle software updates Bradley Metrock This Week in Voice podcast Digital Book World - September 14-15, 2020, in Nashville American Library Association #eBooksForAll petition campaign “Digital Book World Bans Macmillan Employees in Response to Library Embargo” by Bradley Metrock at Digital Book World blog - January 28, 2020 “ALA Midwinter 2020: Macmillan CEO John Sargent, Librarians Spar Over E-Book Embargo” by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - January 26, 2020 “Book Club” column by Ron Charles mentioning DBW ban on Macmillan employees at The Washington Post  Jennifer N. Baker Vooks Scribd Alexa Flash Briefings   Facebook: The Inside Story by Steven Levy 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?” For my political podcast, please check out Edge Cast. 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 A G Riddle’s books at Amazon.com Next Week’s Guest Bradley Metrock, director of Digital Book World 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?” For my political podcast, please check out Edge Cast. Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Technical Editor at Microwave Journal Interview begins at 5:40 and ends at 47:00 Links Readwise app for Kindle highlights   Articles by Gary Lerude at Microwave Journal “Introducing Amazon Sidewalk” at The Amazon Blog - September 27, 2020 Gary’s Podcast Recommendations: The Daily, Post Reports, The Daily 202, On Being, Secular Buddhism, Timber Hawkeye My Asynchronous Dialog with Austin Kleon at The Kindle Chronicles - May 4, 2019 The Pomodoro Technique Mobile World Congress 2020 canceled Pandemic (The Extinction Files Book 1) by A. G. Riddle My most recent interview with A. G. Riddle - March 7, 2019 Next Week’s Guest 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?” For my political podcast, please check out Edge Cast. Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.