

The Kindle Chronicles
Len Edgerly
A weekly podcast about the Kindle and eBooks with in-depth conversations with guests--authors, technology experts, book industry analysts, Amazon execs, educators, agents, readers, and more.
Episodes
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Aug 24, 2019 • 53min
TKC 577 Stephanie Edgerly
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.

Aug 17, 2019 • 46min
TKC 576 Julia Sommerfeld
Editorial Director of Amazon Original Stories Interview starts at 17:46 and ends at 36:41 "We are a publisher within the context of a technology company. And so we're really eager to work with authors who are world builders who are really interested in applying that type of imagination and creativity beyond the page." News Land of the Giants podcast with Jason del Rey "Dean Koontz's Jump to Amazon Publishing: Will Other Authors Follow?" by Porter Anderson at Publishing Perspectives - July 22, 2019 Interview with Julia Sommerfeld Amazon Original Stories Ricochet Joe by Dean Koontz My interview with Dean Koontz for TKC 493 on January 13, 2018 "Dean Koontz Signs New Five-Book Deal with Amazon Publishing" - Amazon press release July 22, 2019 Dean Koontz's author page at Amazon.com Beautiful Ruins: A Novel by Jess Walter The One Collection including "Parable" by Jess Walter and "Speed Grieving" by Allison Ellis Daisy Jones & The Six: A Novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid - an Amazon Original Story Disorder Collection including "The Best Girls" by Min Jin Lee Inventions: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era collection Exposure Collection including "Bad Therapist" by Evan Wright Dark Corners Halloween collection (2018) The Forward Collection (SciFi) - to be released on September 17, 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.

Aug 10, 2019 • 39min
TKC 575 Lois Stiles Edgerly
April 29, 1929 - August 6, 2019 This week's show is about the passing of my mother and includes a conversation I had with her eight years ago. We titled the interview "Love in a Model A" and you'll hear why in the episode. RIP, Mom. 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.

Aug 2, 2019 • 51min
TKC 574 Author Cassie Dandridge Selleck
Author of The Pecan Man Cassie's web site Amphibian Press YouTube interview with Cassie Selleck- August 6, 2018 The Pecan Man and The Truth About Grace by Cassie Dandridge Selleck 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.

Jul 27, 2019 • 48min
TKC 573 11th Anniversary w/ A. G. Riddle
Author of The Solar War Interview starts at 15:38 and ends at 46:05 "In The Solar War, in the dark moments of the book, it really becomes about tribes of humans against other tribes of humans, and you wonder who's going to triumph. And then what happens on the other side?" News All-New Kindle Oasis and leather cover Interview with A. G. Riddle The Long Winter trilogy by A. G. Riddle: Winter World, The Solar War, and The Lost Colony (available for pre-order, to be released on November 5, 2019) Recursion: A Novel and Dark Matter by Blake Crouch A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World: A Novel by C. A. Fletcher The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel by Jodie Archer and Matthew L. Jockers Hit Lit: Cracking the Code of the Twentieth Century's Biggest Bestsellers by James W. Hall Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Herman Melville My previous interviews with A. G. Riddle on July 21, 2018 and March 7, 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! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Jul 19, 2019 • 48min
TKC 572 Kindles on the Beach!
Stacey Lamberti, left, and Amy Stevens Interviews start at 15:05 and end at 45:57 News "Amazon Prime Day Topped $7 Billion: Internet Retailer" by Annie Gaus at TheStreet - July 18, 2019 Amazon press release on Prime Day results Interviews with beachgoers at Old Orchard Beach, Maine Kim Pilon from Ottawa, Canada: The Islanders: A Novel by Meg Mitchell Moore Alan Crowell from The Villages in Florida and Old Orchard Beach, Maine Books by Paul Doiron Robert Parker's Author Page at Amazon.com Robert Parker's Jesse Stone series Kindle Unlimited J. Box's Author Page at Amazon.com Amy Stevens of Barre, VT: Only One Life: A Novel by Ashley Farley Stacey Lamberti of Barre, VT: Christian romance authors Karen Kingsbury and Kimberly Rae Jordan Debbie from Montreal: Kobo Aura Edition 2 Books by Vince Flynn, Daniel Silva, Alex Berenson, Brad Thor, Brad Taylor, and James Patterson Becoming by Michelle Obama Adam from Oxford, MA: The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle Book 1) by Patrick Rothfuss Nicole from Oxford, MA: The Witches of St. Petersberg: A Novel by Imogen Edwards-Jones Comments 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.

Jul 13, 2019 • 55min
TKC 571 Bradley Metrock
Presenter of Digital Book World Sept. 10-12 in Nashville Interview starts at 17:04 and ends at 54:36 "This is a very unique conference. There's nothing quite like it. It's time well spent for anybody who touches in any way publishing or technology." News Chris Walton's speculations on Prime Day of the future Amazon's big new employee training program announced Peter Kafka interview with Vimeo CEO Anjali Sud Tech Tip Interview with Bradley Metrock Digital Book World 2019 in Nashville September 10-12, 2019 at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel Collaborative Knowledge Foundation Bloom Library Simon & Schuster's Stephen King Library Mike Shatzkin's blog Samsung's Bixby 2.0 This Week in Voice podcast Amazon's Alexa Conversations The Voice of Healthcare Summit August 5-6 at Harvard Medical School, Boston Lifepod Project Voice January 13-20, 2020 in Chattanooga 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! Three new episodes are up of my Edge Cast podcast. Check it out! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Jul 6, 2019 • 47min
TKC 570 Author Lauren Mechling
Author of How Could She: A Novel Interview starts at 17:29 and ends at 45:54 "This book is about female friendship and how devastating and wonderful it can be." (Photo Copyright by Nina Subin) News "50 Million Americans Are Queuing Up For Amazon Prime Day 2019: What to Expect" by Pamela N. Danziger at Forbes - June 28, 2019 "This is your secret weapon for Amazon Prime Day deals" by Clifford Colby at CNET - July 5, 2019 Amazon Prime Day is July 15 and 16! Interview with Lauren Mechling How Could She: A Novel Slate Political Gabfest WTF Podcast with Marc Maron 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.

Jun 29, 2019 • 47min
TKC 569 Chris Schluep & Erin Kodicek
Just a few of Amazon's Best Books of the Year So Far Interview starts at 12:58 and ends at 45:20 "(Erin Kodicek:) So June is the halfway marker for the year, and it's also a time when a lot of people are going on vacation. So they're going to want to leave filling their bags and filling their Kindles with books. If you're having trouble filling those things with, we are happy to help you. Just visit Amazon.com/bestbookssofar. " Interview with Chris Schluep and Erin Kodicek Amazon's Best Books of the Year So Far Press release announcing best books of the year so far - June 18, 2019 Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover (Amazon's best book of the year for 2018) Erin Kodicek's Amazon Book Review podcast interview with Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls, the best book of the year so far for 2019 The Signature of All Things: A Novel by Elizabeth Gilbert The Parisian by Isabella Hammad - 576 pages! Next Week's Guest Lauren Mechling, author of How Could She? 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.

Jun 22, 2019 • 49min
TKC 568 Noah Magel in Munich
Co-founder of N2Kindle Interview starts at 19:21 and ends at 49:24 "The thing that we're doing is we're changing the newsletter into a Kindle-friendly format, and then we forward them automatically. It would be a huge hassle to do that by yourself and to do that every morning or for every edition that you want to receive, so that's the thing that we're doing in the background." News Information on Amazon fulfillment center tours Forbes review of all-new Kindle Oasis Comments on new Oasis at redditKindle Amazon announces a new Off To College Store Anjali Sud, former Amazon exec now CEO of Vimeo, interviewed on Recode Media by Peter Kafka Tech Tip "External drive support in iOS makes it possible to easily share files with a Kindle" by Chance Miller at 9TO5Mac - June 18, 2019 "How to share files between iPhone and Kindle with iOS 13" by napabar at YouTube - June 18, 2019 Apple Lightning to USB3 Camera Adapter at Amazon.com - $31 Interview with Noah Magel Technical University of Munich N2Kindle website The Highlighter Newsletter by Mark Isero Substack and Revue Axios and Skim newsletters Readwise My interview with Tracy Schultz, Amazon's head of product for Kindle reading Next Week's Guest Chris Schluep and Erin Kodicek, members of the Amazon Books team who will discuss their recently released Best Books of the Year So Far list. 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.


