The Kindle Chronicles

Founder and CEO of IMDb Interview starts at 14:54 and ends at 52:50 “In 1990, if you’d have said to me ‘You know the service that you’ve just launched, one day you’ll be able to interact with that by voice with a device that’s this big in your kitchen.’ I’d be like, ‘Really?’ Now it’s kind of like an everyday experience.” News Fire HD 10 tablet on sale for $100 - a price cut of $50 Kindle Voyage - $130 on Amazon’s Woot site ($90 off) “Open road Integrated Media Shows 36% YoY Revenue Growth in January 2019” - press release March 26, 2019 Association of American Publishers stats for January 2019 Tech Tips reMarkable tablet ($599) versus Rocketbook ($30) versus MobiScribe ($214) Kindle for Mac update (1.25.2) Kindle sort by unread and read coming (Good E-Reader) Interview with Col Needham IMDb “Behind the Scenes at IMDb” by Elias Wolfberg at Amazon’s Day One blog - February 28, 2018 Next Week’s Guest Michael J. Sullivan, author of the Riyria fantasy series. 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: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad “When I first started out, if you had told me that my books were going to be shelved in Self Help, I would never have believed you. And when I first got started I had no idea there was such a thing as an illustrated gift book. I just didn’t know that those genres existed in publishing. The really fun thing for me about doing this kind of book is that it allows me to be as weird as I want to be in a mainstream format.  That is the great gift that these books have given to me.” Links related to my interview with Austin Kleon: Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad by Austin Kleon - Available for pre-order with release on April 2, 2019 Other books by Austin Kleon at Amazon.com “The Gulp” at Austin’s blog - March 18, 2019 My interview with Austin Kleon on TKC 295 - March 26, 2014 Austin’s book tour schedule starting April 2, 2019 Next Week’s Guest Col Needham, founder and CEO of Amazon’s IMDb, the number one movie website in the world, with more than 250 million unique monthly visitors. 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.

The Gaming Hall at South By Southwest On this last of my TKC updates from South By, I will tell you why I'm not going to sell my small stake in Bitcoin any time soon. Also, a tourist's view of the high-energy gaming track at SXSW.  Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.  

Len on the main escalator at the Austin Convention Center Neil Pasricha, director of the Institute for Global Happiness Neil Pasricha’s books at Amazon “Four Ways of Looking at South By Southwest” by Len Edgerly at Medium - March 14, 2019 The Texas Tribune John Hickenlooper and Pete Buttigieg websites CNN Town Hall with Pete Buttegieg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXD8uFU-xgM CNN Town Hall with John Delaney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HxWAL5RDMM “Nothing to Be Written” VR project by the BBC Next Week’s Guest Austin Kleon, author of Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad - available for pre-order with delivery April 2, 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.

This is the view from the big escalator at the Austin Convention Center, where I am attending a session about the Hope and Hype of Blockchain. Also in this TKC Extra I share an unusual experience I had yesterday while visiting senior living communities with my cousin Peter, who is blind. Thanks for listening! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

I plan to upload brief segments each day this week from Austin, where I am attending South By Southwest through Sunday. So much to learn! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of Winter World Interview starts at 17:30 and ends at 43:00 “My books almost always deal with an extinction-level event or the pushing of humanity to the brink at times.” Comments Mark Isero’s Kindle Classroom Project Kindle Direct Publishing eBook Quality Dashboard Interview with A G Riddle A G Riddle’s books at Amazon.com My interview with A G Riddle in July, 2018 on TKC 520 News Amazon to stop selling its Dash buttons - Fast Company and BBC Last-Ditch effort to save NYC Amazon Jobs - The Hill “How Amazon Taught the Echo Auto to Hear You In a Noisy Car” by Dhananjay Motwani at Wired - March 4, 2019 “How Amazon’s Algorithms Curated a Dystopian Bookstore” by Joel Saget at Wired - March 5, 2018 “Amazon to reportedly close all of its 87 pop-up stores in the US beginning in April” by Todd Haselton at CNBC - march 6, 2019 “Health Venture of Amazon, Berkshire, JP Morgan Has a Name: Haven” by Anna Wilde Mathews at The Wall Street Journal - March 6, 2019 (Note: My audio erroneously says the third partner is Chase instead of JPMorgan.) Next Week’s Show - Almost-Live from South By Southwest Interactive TKC 555 on March 22 - Bestselling author Michael J. Sullivan 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.

Len teaching a creative writing class at Belmont Hill School Audio starts at 12:59 and ends at 54:39 News “Amazon Alexa and the Search for the One Perfect Answer” by James Vlahos at Wired - February 18, 2019 Tech Tip “How to hear (and delete) every conversation your Amazon Alexa has recorded” by Natt Garun at The Verge - February 28, 2019 Audio from my presentation at Belmont Hill School Blue Yeti microphone - $103 at Amazon.com Libsyn.com Wattpad Medium MailChimp Tech Tonic podcast with John Thornhill Evil Genius podcast with Dave Slusher Pardon My Take podcast The Joe Rogen Experience podcast Next Week’s Guest AG Riddle, author of Winter World, released February 26, 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.

Executive Director of Two Lions and Amazon Crossing Kids Interview starts at 23:18 and ends at 43:02 “We would really love to discover books from all over the globe, especially from diverse regions that may not be as well-known to a young English readership. We want the list to be dynamic and really showcase every possible language and culture that we’re able to.” News “How New York Lost Amazon” on The Daily podcast - February 21, 2019 “Amazon’s grave HQ2 mistake: The political landscape changed but the company’s playbook didn’t” by Jason Del Rey at Recode - February 15, 2019 “Amazon Go and Scan-&-Go Detractors Need to Stop Burying Their Heads in the Sand Like Ostriches” by Chris Walton at Forbes - February 15, 2019 “Amazon’s Echo Wall Clock is back on sale after connectivity fix” byAJ Dellinger at Engadget - February 18, 2019 Echo Wall Clock at Amazon.com - $29.99 Tech Tips AmazonBasics Microwave with Alexa - $59.99 at Amazon.com Wait Wait Quiz skill for Alexa Vintage Radio skill for Alexa “Alexa Cast Sends Music from the Amazon Music App to Alexa Devices” at Love My Echo Amazon Music streaming with Alexa Cast - Amazon.com Interview with Kelsey Skea Amazon press release announcing Amazon Crossing Kids - January 25, 2019 “Amazon Publishing Launches Amazon Crossing Kids” by John Maher at Publishers Weekly - January 25, 2019 Amazon Crossing Kids, Two Lions and Amazon Crossing imprints Corduroy by Don Freeman, Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell and Lillian Hoban, Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey, and the Babar books by Jean De Brunhoff and Isabel Alonso Gomes To be published in 2019 by Amazon Crossing Kids: Spiky by Ilaria Guarducci translated by Laura Watkinson (July 1), A Tiger Like Me by Michael Engler translated by Laura Watkinson (September 1), and Along the Tapajós by Fernando Vilela translated by Daniel Hahn (October 1, 2019) Click here to propose a book for translation by Amazon Crossing Next Week’s Guest A. G. Riddle, author of Winter World, available for pre-order, to be released February 26, 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. Click here if you’d like to play the “Ocean Park Blues” YouTube video I created for my father’s 92nd birthday this week 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 Early Riser: A Novel Interview starts at 11:47 and ends at 39:00 News Amazon to buy Eero - in Wired and Yahoo Finance Amazon drops plans for HQ2 in New York (Washington Post) Tech Tips VoiceBrew podcast on Alexa tips (via Bradley Metrock’s This Week in Voice podcast) Interview with Jasper Fforde Early Riser: A Novel at Amazon.com Early Riser web site and “What’s the book about?” Shades of Grey: A Novel Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker Three episodes of the Bonanza TV series - free on Prime Video The Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde Comments Classical music list from listener John Aga: Leonard Bernstein's Young People’s Guide to Classical Music available through YouTube: They are broken into 95 easily digestible clips over many public concerts. Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (Ode To Joy portion) as done by a musical flash mob. George Gershwin’s Rhapsody In Blue. https://youtu.be/cH2PH0auTUU Edvard Grieg, Peer Gynt Suite Number 1. https://youtu.be/dyM2AnA96yE P.Dukas. The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Appalachian Spring - Aaron Copland LIVE. Pictures at an exhibition - Suite in 10 movements – Moussorgski. Rimsky-Korsakov. Scheherazade. Movement 1. Eine kleine Nachtmusik. Mozart. Simple Gifts as performed by Cantus. Puccini: “O mio babbino caro” / Performed by Renee Fleming. John: Cantus is a particular favorite of mine and their home is here in Minnesota.  This Tiny Desk Concert is courtesy of NPR.  NPR has been doing a series of these Tiny Desk concerts for a long time. Next Week’s Guest Kelsey Skea, head of the new Amazon Crossing Kids imprint 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.