The Kindle Chronicles

Director, Kids and Family at Amazon Interview starts at 13:20 and ends at 40:57 Links Amazon Go store locations “Report of Amazon Go Coming to Airports Is a Sign of Far Greater Change to Come” by Chris Walton at Forbes - October 10, 2-019 Amazon’s Leadership Principles Kindle Kids Edition Rick Riordan author’s page at Amazon.com Primed Podcast from KUOW in Seattle Land of the Giants podcast from Vox “Introducing the News app on Fire TV” by Puneet Puri at the Fire TV blog - October 22, 2019 The Daily Recount Instagram photos of our Yorkie Claire, RIP 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.  Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! This episode is dedicated to the memory of our Yorkie Claire, peacefully departed from this world here in Maine yesterday.  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.

Retired Elementary School Teacher in Upton, Wyoming Interview starts at 5:31 and ends at 33:07 Links “Millions of Amazon Echo and Kindle Devices Affected by WiFi Bug” by Lawrence Abrams at Bleeping Computer - October 17, 2019 Christi Ross Crain interviewed as Teacher of the Year in 2012 (YouTube) Upton, Wyoming Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence by Bill O’Reilly Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel and Reamde: A Novel by Neal Stephenson Neal Stephenson’s author page at Amazon.comMusic 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.  Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! 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 Interview starts at 13:04 and ends at 51:49 “We don’t want to be constantly wired. We don’t want brain implants. We just want the ability to get information and communication when we need it and the way we need it. Amazon is essentially saying, ‘in your car, on your ear, in your pocket? Sure. In your environment, your home. We’re just going to thread all this together, so that you can use it when you need it, and it just disappears in the background when you don’t.’” Links “Is Amazon Unstoppable?” by Charles Duhigg at The New Yorker - October 10, 2019 “Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan” by Franklin Foer at The Atlantic - November, 2019 Amazon Fire HD 10 (2019) vs. Fire HD 10 (2017) by Simon Hill at Digital Trends - October 7, 2019 All-new Kindle Kids Edition ($110) at Amazon.com - Available October 30, 2019 Kindle with Audible Narration books List of 10,000+ Whispersync for Voice-enabled books for children ages 9-12 IndieWire review of “Jexi” - October 11, 2019 Oura heartrate monitor ring LOOMO personal robot - $1,799 at Amazon.com Neal Stephenson’s author page at Amazon.com Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel and Reamde: A Novel by Neal Stephenson The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe Apollo by Catherine Bly Cox and Charles Murray 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.  Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! 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 Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know Interview starts at 15:54 and ends at 49:25 Links LEGOLAND in Boston “Why You should Remove All Color on Your iPhone” (YouTube) by All I Talk Is Tech - October 27, 2018 Echo Glow - $30 “Why you may have to wait longer to check out an e-book from your local library” by Jenny McGrath at Digital Trends - September 13, 2019 Macmillan CEO John Sargent’s letter announcing change in eBook sales to public libraries - July 25, 2019 “Why Angry Librarians Are Going to War with Publishers over E-Books” by Heather Schwedel at Slate - September 11, 2019 The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know by Mike Shatzkin and Robert Paris Riger The Shatzkin Files Mike Shatzkin’s essays about climate change and other topics at Medium “Cheap Words: Amazon is good for customers. But is it good for books?” by George Packer at The New Yorker - February 4, 2014 Books recommended by Mike Shatzkin: Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee Serious Eater: A Food Lover’s Perilous Quest for Pizza and Redemption by Ed Levine The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts by Jill Abramson Echo Flex - $25 Next Week’s Show James McQuivey, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research 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.  Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Your Host in front of the Spheres at Amazon in Seattle Amazon press releases related to media briefing on September 26, 2019: 8 New Echo Devices Devices and Services for Smart Home My Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa - Enable it, then ask "Alexa, what's new?" to hear my daily audio journal on your Echo devices. Next week's guest: Mike Shatzkin 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.  Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.  

Host of the Solopreneur Hour Podcast Links Solopreneur Hour Podcast The Art of the Interview Course Agents of Change conference in Portland, Maine Flyte New Media, founded by Rich Brooks Jen Lehner Media Jen Lehner’s Alexa Flash Briefing course Soundup Next Week’s Show Mike Shatzkin, creator of The Shatzkin Files 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.  Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Director of Deaf Ministries, Baptist International Outreach Note: I am very grateful to David Peach for covering Digital Book World on his own for The Kindle Chronicles this year, which enabled me to spend important time with my family.  Links Baptist International Outreach Joshua Tallent of Firebrand Technologies Eda Gimenez of Buncee Paul Frank of The Bloom Library American Library Association’s take on the Macmillan issue:  Buncee Dave Gunn of the DAISY Consortium Bloom Library National Book Foundation Next Week’s Show Agents of Change conference in Portland, Maine 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.  Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of The Everything Store Interview starts at 16:31 and ends at 28:37 “I’m resuming the story. It’s the story of Alexa and the Amazon Go project, their international expansion, and AWS and the explosion in the Amazon Marketplace and then of course society coming to grips with this technology giant in its midst.” News “E Ink is working on new color e-paper solutions” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - August 31,2019 Digital Book World 2019 tickets sold out in Nashville Tech Tips Fintie Slimshell Case for All-New Kindle Oasis - $10 at Amazon.com Prime Reload “Alexa Can Help You Find Lost Items Around Your House” by Brendan Hesse at Lifehacker 0- August 30, 2019 Interview with Brad Stone Books by Brad Stone: The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon and The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World Comments Sticky Notes podcast Next Week’s Show David Peach will be covering for me at Digital Book World 2019 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.  Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Outro Music for this episode is performed by my niece Fran Betlyon.  Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Director, Adoption at Khoros in London Interview starts at 16:20 and ends at 49:09 “I find the Kindle good for highlighting, not as good for note taking. Even though I think that functionality has improved over the years, typing on the keypad on the Kindle doesn’t work great for me. So depending on what I want to do and the type of book determines whether I want to go print version or read it on the Kindle.” News “Aggressive Amazon tactic pushes you to consider its own brand before you click ‘buy’” by Jay Greene at The Washington Post - August 28, 2019 Tech Tip read.amazon.com/notebook “External drive support in iOS 13 makes it possible to easily share files with a Kindle” by Chance Miller at 9To5Mac - June 18, 2019 Interview with Bryan Person My conversation with Bryan Person on TKC 89 - April 2, 2010 Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad by Austin Kleon Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight (Audiobook) TKC 534: My interview with Power Reader Simon Eskioldsen - October 26, 2018 Audible Captions Audible Immersion Reading Football Hackers: The Science and Art of a Data Revolution by Christoph Biermann Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David J. Epstein Blinkist  Next Week’s Guest Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon 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.  Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Outro Music for this episode is performed by my niece Fran Betlyon.  Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of Heavenly Body, with her grandson Beau Interview starts at 21:06 and ends at 48:59 Installation and Test of Echo Auto Interview with Stephanie Edgerly   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.  Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Outro Music for this episode is performed by my niece Fran Betlyon.  Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.