The Kindle Chronicles

Your Host beside the Blue Origin capsule Links Excerpts from Jeff Bezos’s fireside chat at re:MARS on June 6, 2019 AI Today podcast hosted by Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer of Cognilytica Next Week’s Guest Neal Thompson, director of the Amazon Literary Partnership 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 Think Like Amazon: 50 ½ Ideas To Become a Digital Leader Interview starts at 2:38 and ends at 35:46 “I don’t think that part of the story of Amazon and Bezos gets told enough, about how he bet on himself and on the idea of Amazon. They stuck with it when everybody was a naysayer. They stuck with it for a long period of time when the stock was flat and there was no wealth being created. I think it’s really the all-American dream, how Amazon has progressed. I don’t think that story gets told enough. ” News “Amazon debuts a new Echo Show amid Alexa privacy concerns” by Lauren Goode at Wired - May 29, 2019 Echo Show 5 available for pre-order at Amazon.com Interview with John Rossman Rossman Partners Think Like Amazon: 50 ½ Ideas to Become a Digital Leader by John Rossman Jeff Bezos’s 2018 Letter to Shareholders Comments Mark Isero’s Kindle Classroom Project War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, and The Mueller Report The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff Shoshana Zuboff interviewed by Recode’s Kara Swisher (via Vox) - February 20, 2019 Next Week’s Show My report from Amazon’s re:MARS conference to be hosted by Jeff Bezos in Las Vegas 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.

Amazon’s Head of Product for Kindle Reading Interview starts at 18:29 and ends at 47:37 News “How creepy is your smart speaker” in The Economist - May 11, 2019 Alexa Guard “Amazon Alexa’s New ‘Guard’ Can Help Keep Your Home Safe While You’re Away” by Emily Price at Fortune - May 15, 2019 Interview with Tracy Schultz Upcoming Shows Next Week: John Rossman, author of Think Like Amazon: 50 ½ Ideas to Become a Digital Leader TKC 566 on June 7, 2019: My report from Amazon’s re:MARS conference to be hosted by Jeff Bezos in Las Vegas 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.

Peter Tighe, my cousin who lives in Austin Interview starts at 11:09 and ends at 38:27 News Amazon updates the Fire 7 Tablet - press release on May 16, 2019 Tech Tip Nadene Laird’s review of the MobiScribe E Ink tablet Interview with Peter Tighe Aira web site “Aira at SXSW” - March 8, 2019 at Aira website 2019 Interactive Innovation Awards Winners at SXSW Aira Pricing Plans “Get Paid to Help the Blind from Home: Aira Seeks Part-Time Agents in San Francisco” at Lighthouse - May 16, 2019 Voice Dream Scanner app for iOS Comments Amazon’s information on eTextbooks Kindle eBooks for teams and groups Upcoming Shows Next week: Tracy Schultz, Senior Manager of Product Management - Kindle Reader TKC 564 on May 31, 2019: John Rossman, author of Think Like Amazon: 50 ½ Ideas to Become a Digital Leader TKC 565 on June 7, 2019: My report from Amazon’s re:MARS conference to be hosted by Jeff Bezos in Las Vegas 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.

Editor of The Amazon Chronicles newsletter Interview starts at 16:32 and ends at 49:27 “You can imagine an Amazon without Alexa that is still very successful, but Alexa is a huge key to Amazon’s future.” Intro Aira glasses for the blind News “Assisted Living Community Gives Every Resident ‘Alexa’ to Help Keep Their Independence” at CBS13 in Sacramento - May 7, 2019 Eskaton communities Echo Dot on sale for $29.99 Amazon.com (regular price $49.99) “Amazon Kindle Paperwhite is back on sale for $40 off” by David Carnoy at CNET - May 5, 2019 Kindle Paperwhite at Amazon.com (Using this link to buy one benefits TKC with Associates commission - thank you!) Kindle Paperwhite Essentials bundle (includes leather case and power adapter) on sale for $150 - $60 off Interview with Tim Carmody The Amazon Chronicles newsletter Articles by Tim Carmody published in Wired Magazine Noticing newsletter by Tim Carmody at kottke.org “Unlocking the Commons” by Tim Carmody at Nieman Lab Inside Amazon newsletter KUOW’s Primed Podcast 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 Keep Going at Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver Dialog starts at 5:33 and ends at 40:34 “So we all like to think that if we could just change our circumstances we’d be more creative. I could just move to Paris, rent a light-filled studio, maybe buy a beret, fall in with a gang of misfits.Then I could really paint my masterpiece. But we know this is wishful thinking, that everything we need to make our good work is here. We just have to pay more attention to it.” News “Amazon plans to create 400 tech jobs in Denver with new office expansion” by Lauren Feiner at CNBC - April 30, 2019 Amazon press release on Denver expansion Tech Tip Kindle firmware updates Links related to Austin Kleon’s presentation Tattered Cover Book Store, Denver Robert Creeley Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad by Austin Kleon Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things that Happened by Allie Brosh Content Think Like Amazon: 50 ½ Ideas to Become a Digital Leader by John Rossman Next Week’s Guest Tim Carmody, Editor of The Amazon Chronicles newsletter 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.

Graduating senior in mechanical engineering at Saint Louis University Interview starts at 5:57 and ends at 28:32 News “Elizabeth Warren’s really simple case for breaking up big tech” by Zack Beauchamp at Vox - April 22, 2019 “Amazon says its private labels are only 1% of its business, but new data shows some are seeing huge growth” by Dennis Green at Business Insider Amazon earnings report at The Washington Post - April 25, 2019 Interview with Sarah Rock Saint Louis University Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) Go Baby Go Arduino Kaitlin Gallatin, Luke Vest, and Paul Richard (starts at 25:35 and ends at 35:47) Matthew O’Brien (starts at 35:49 and ends at 42:55) 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.

Amazon’s Director of Sales & Marketing for Kindle eReaders & Fire Tablets Interview starts at 15:36 and ends at 46:17 “We find that customers--whether it’s our entry Kindle, our Paperwhite, our Oasis program--you can find voracious readers on any of those devices, reading many, many books a month and really enjoying their devices and consistently using them every day. ” News “The Inner Bezos” by Chip Bayers at Wired Magazine - March 1, 1999 Jeff Bezos 2018 Letter to Shareholders Interview with Allen Hughes Harry Potter: The Complete Collection (1-7) on Kindle by J. K. Rowling Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport 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.

Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research Interview starts at 12:02 and ends at 52:12 “We used Future Fitness to describe this concept, because we wanted to make it clear that it is not measuring a fixed attribute. This is not a personality trait. In fact, we avoid the word ‘trait’ deliberately, because although there are traits obviously related here, almost everything that we’re measuring is something that you can change--if you want to. If you want to become more future fit you can.” News Press release announcing all-new entry-level Kindle - March 20, 2019 All-New Kindle at Amazon.com 2018 Letter to Shareholders from Jeff Bezos Interview with James McQuivey “Introducing Forrester Future Fit: Are You Fit Enough to Share in a World of Intelligent Technologies?” by James McQuivey at Forrester.com - April 1, 2019 My previous conversation with James on TKC 538 in November, 2019 The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress by Virginia Postrel To take the Forrester Future Fit diagnostic survey, click here: http://forr.com/futurefit James McQuivey’s blog and Future Fitness next steps Click here to contribute to Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children, the organization that is sponsoring James McQuivey’s run in the Boston Marathon on April 15th. Next Week’s Guest A member of Amazon’s Kindle team will talk with us about the all-new basic Kindle 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 Legends of the First Empire and Riyria series Interview starts at 10:01 and ends at 43:57 On writing fantasy: “The world should just build in the background. You should get to know it by experience, not by having to be told in page after page and getting a whole world history, because that’s boring. People tend to skim that kind of stuff. I like to try and write so if people skim they’ll totally ruin the book, and I try to make everything entertaining enough that they won’t want to.” News “Amazon is Making a Rival to Apple’s AirPods as Its First Alexa Wearable” by Mark Gurman at Bloomberg - April 4, 2019 “Jeff Bezos, in divorce settlement, retains 75 percent of the Amazon stock he held with his now ex-wife MacKenzie” by Craig Timberg and Greg Bensinger at The Washington Post - April 4, 2019 Interview with Michael J. Sullivan Age of Legend Kickstarter project Books by Michael J. Sullivan at Amazon.com Next Week’s Guest James McQuivey, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester, who will present a webinar April 23, 2019 at 11 - 11:45 am ET titled “Are You Fit for the Future? You Can’t Shape the Future with Tools You Don’t Have” 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.