The Kindle Chronicles

               Author of the Joe Dillard and Darren Street series Scott Pratt author page at Amazon.com Jeff Bezos on the David Rubenstein Show - taped September 13, 2018 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 for Baptist International Outreach Interview starts at 12:12 and ends at 40:04 “If I’m getting a book that I’m independently loading on [to a Fire tablet] I tend to do it in the Google Play books and not the Kindle app, mainly because it’s easier to put it on there. ” News “U.S. Trends in Arts Attendance and Literary Reading: 2002-2017” (PDF) - report by the National Endowment for the Arts “NEA Study Finds Small Dip in Adult Reading” by Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly - September 13, 2018 “How to Earn Up to $300,000 Delivering Packages for Amazon” by Zack Friedman at Forbes - September 12, 2018 Tech Tip Humble Bundle Interview with David Peach Digital Book World Digital Book World Hall of Fame Inductees Baptist International Outreach Digital Book World in Nashville October 2-4, 2018 The Daisy Consortium My interview with Bradley Metrock in December, 2017, on TKC 487 OverDrive Humble Bundle O’Reilly Media How to get Google Play on your Fire tablet (Amy Oztan at Laptopmag.com) Unclaimed Baggage Center David Peach’s LearnSigns.com and Missionary Talks podcasts Content   Great on Kindle books Next Week’s Guest Scott Pratt, author of An Innocent Client and other books in the Joe Dillard 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.

Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group Interview starts at 5:19 and ends at 36:00 “With respect to blockchain, there’s an opportunity to--I wouldn’t necessarily say disrupt--but to create an alternative to the closed ecosystems that Amazon has with Kindle and that other online platforms have and to provide peer-to-peer trading as well as easier e-commerce networks for publishers. It might be a pipe dream, and it might be that Amazon beats us to the punch and creates something that works on blockchain but is more effective for the consumer.” News All-new Fire HD 8 tablet with hands-free Alexa Tech Tip Alexa and Cortana demo Here's How to Use Cortana with Alexa (and Vice Versa) To use Cortana on an Echo device: Open the Alexa app. You can log into your Amazon account here, or create one for free. Enable the Cortana Alexa skill. ... To Use Alexa on a Cortana device: Open Cortana. ... Say "Hey Cortana, open Alexa." Interview with Brian O’Leary Book Industry Study Group Author Earnings Digital Book World in Nashville October 2-4, 2018 Blockchain panel (YouTube) at BookNet Canada - March 23, 2018 Open Publication Distribution Service Len Vlahos of the Tattered Cover Bookstore on TKC 467 - July 14, 2017 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.

  CEO of Publica Interview starts at 7:05 and ends at 42:10 “So a book token in our eReader app is going to be used as part of the cryptographic protection of the book to authorize you to read it by proving that you bought it. There’s another token that we made called the Pebble (PBL). It’s a ticker on exchanges, and if you want to go looking for what the Pebble is doing in the world you would look for the PBL ticker. It’s a token, but it only works as money. It’s not specific to a single book.” News “E Ink starts shipping advanced color epaper” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - August 28, 2018 “Sears’ stock soars as ship-to-store tire deal with Amazon expanded nationwide” by Tomi Kilgore at MarketWatch - August 29, 2018 “New Amazon Go Store Shrinks In Size, A Sign of Hope for Competitors” by Chris Walton at Forbes - August 28, 2018 Tech Tip “Literary Clock Made from E-Reader” by tjaap at Instructables, reported on at Gizmodo Interview with Josef Marc Publica Ethereum Project Morgan James Publishing Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad at the Publica Store - available for PBL 9.29 Canoeing in the Wilderness by Henry David Thoreau at Publica Store - available for PBL 5.25 Publica Book Catalog Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling 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.

  Editorial Director at Thomas & Mercer Interview starts at 16:49 and ends at 43:56 “It’s interesting to think about readers around the world being able to find these books about a chemistry teacher turned homicide detective in Seattle, Washington. And I think that’s the global power of stories. Great stories are something that appeals to everyone. Figuring out the best ways that we can make it that anyone who wants to can pick up these books is really something we’re working toward.” News Good deals on Echo Show, Echo Dot, Echo Plus, Fire TV, and Fire TV Cube Walmart teams up with Kobo eReaders at Markets Insider - August 22, 2018 Rakuten Kobo Walmart announces Walmart eBooks by Rakuten Kobo “Amazon in Running to Acquire Landmark Movie Chain” by Anousha Sakoui et al at Bloomberg - August 15, 2018 “Can Blockchain Disrupt the E-Book Market?” by Bill Rosenblatt at Forbes - August 18, 2018 Publica website “Alexa is Losing Her Edge” by Will Oremus at Slate - August 23, 2018 Tech Tip How Long to Read website (found at Recomendo) Patrick Melrose: The Novels by Edward St. Aubyn Patrick Melrose series on Showtime Mark Twain: A Life by Ron Powers Interview with Grace Doyle Thomas & Mercer titles at Amazon.com My interview last week with Robert Dugoni What She Gave Away: A Thriller by Catharine Riggs (available for pre-order, delivery on September 4, 2018) What Have You Done by Matthew Farrell (available for pre-order, delivery October 1, 2018) Debris Line (Gibson Vaughn Book 4) by Matthew FitzSimmons (available for pre-order, delivery November 13, 2018) Quantum: A Thriller by Patricia Cornwell (available for pre-order, delivery December 3, 2019) Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert [Kindle in Motion] by Patricia Cornwell The Sky Below: A True Story of Summits, Space, and Speed [Kindle in Motion] by Scott Parazynski, interviewed on TKC 470 in August, 2017 Graveyard of Memories [Kindle in Motion] (A John Rain Novel Book 8) by Barry Eisler Good Behavior [Kindle in Motion] by Blake Crouch Chateau Ste Michelle winery Leo Waterman mysteries by G. M. Ford The Alienist: A Novel (Dr. Lazlo Kreizler Book 1) by Caleb Carr Edinburgh Twilight (Ian Hamilton Mysteries Book 1) by Carole Lawrence Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard Warlight: A Novel by Michael Ondaatje The Killer Collective by Barry Eisler Killer Thriller (Ian Ludlow Thrillers Book 2) by Lee Goldberg (Available for pre-order, delivery February 12, 2019) Bone Music (The Burning Girl Book 1) and Blood Echo (The Burning Girl Book 2) by Christopher Rice (Available for pre-order, delivery February 19, 2019) Content Amazon ends submissions for Kindle Scout Books published via Kindle Scout Next Week’s Guest Josef Marc, CEO of Publica, which is publishing books using tokens on the blockchain. 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 Tracy Crosswhite and David Sloane mysteries Interview starts at 1:30 and ends at 35:00 “I’d say the primary difference between Thomas & Mercer and my experience with Big 5 publishing is that Thomas & Mercer never stops selling my books. When I’m with a Big 5 publisher, my book would come out and there would be publicity leading up to the book’s release and then there would be publicity for about three weeks after the book’s release.” Robert Dugoni website Robert Dugoni’s author page at Amazon.com A Steep Price Amazon’s First Reads program, formerly known as Kindle First Books published by Thomas & Mercer and Lake Union The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell Tracy Crosswhite and David Sloan 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.

Partnerships Manager for the Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator at Boston Children’s Hospital Interview starts at 7:44 and ends at 28:24 “One of the barriers with voice in general is you don’t know what’s out there. You don’t really know like you do with a phone what app options you have, so it’s a little bit harder for people to find new things. Amazon in general is pretty concerned about that, because they don’t just want people to use it for their three basic cases, being an alarm, music, and maybe re-ordering something.” News AI Deep-Speare project NBC visits with top Alexa exec in Seattle Amazon’s share of U.S. retail spending considered Amazon plans to open its own health clinic for employees Amazon’s support for literary nonprofitrs Tech Tip Fire HD 10 with Show Mode Dock at Amazon - $190 MyScript Nebo note-taking app for Apple Pencil forScore music reader for iPad Interview with Devin Nadar at the Voice of Healthcare Summit Devin Nadar interviewed on the Voice of Healthcare podcast - July 3, 2018 Boston Children’s Hospital KidsMD skill for Alexa “Amazon Echo gets its first healthcare skill -- KidsMD” at MHealthSpot - April 17, 2016 Amazon Web Services and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) CIGNA VoiceFirst FM network of podcasts Interview with Nathan Treloar (Starts at 29:02 and ends at 48:20) Orbita Memory Lane Alexa Skill Next Week’s Guest Robert Dugoni, author of the Tracy Crosswhite 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.

  Jim Jones, right, Associate Professor of Management at University of Nebraska at Omaha Interview starts at 9:03 and ends at 40:50 “In the classroom, I really do strongly feel that attention is so critical to actual understanding that the more that you can remove the electronic connection and the focus on inputting electronically or--even worse sometimes I think, is passively taking pictures of the screen--the better.” News Is Amazon working on another phone? https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/7/29/17627314/amazon-phone-studios-jen-salke-rumor How wealthy are Jeff Bezos’s parents? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-31/a-hidden-amazon-fortune-bezos-parents-could-be-worth-billions How Amazon dominates online retail: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-01/amazon-s-the-biggest-in-online-shopping-but-not-always-the-best Demise of the Kindle Voyage: https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/the-kindle-voyage-is-now-discontinued Tech Tip Update for Kindle app for iPhone and iPad: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amazon-kindle/id302584613?mt=8 Interview with Jim Jones Gallup and its StrengthsFinder assessment tool University of Nebraska Omaha Microsoft Surface Pro Bloom’s Taxonomy of educational goals reMarkable tablet Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman Clifton Strengths assessment 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.

  Links to items mentioned in this 10th Anniversary episode First episode of The Kindle Chronicles (TKC 1) with Baratunde Thurston on July 26, 2008 My interviews with Jeff Bezos in 2012 and 2016 Transcript of my 2012 Bezos interview (via Kindle Nation Daily) Kindle Oasis Interview with Russ Grandinetti, VP Kindle Content, in 2010 TKC 338 with Andy Weir, author of The Martian - January 23, 2015 The Martian (movie) at Prime Video Artemis by Andy Weir TKC 287 with Hugh Howey - January 31, 2014 TKC 191 with Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu First in Line for an iPhone in 2007 (YouTube video) TKC 502 - South by Southwest Interactive 2018 The Colorado Sun at Civil TKC 336 with poet John Ashbery - January 20, 2015 TKC 382 with poet Donald Hall - November 28, 2015 TKC 457 with James McQuivey - May 6, 2017 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 and like the Kindle Chronicles Facebook page. Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of Departure, The Extinction Files and The Origin Mystery Interview starts at 13:07 and ends at 43:36 “I feel very lucky about the timing. The Kindle had just come out. I would go home from work and read my Kindle every night, and I thought, ‘There’s got to be a bunch of people like me that are doing this that I could write a story for.’ And that’s kinda what I got to.” News “Amazon reportedly had a 300-person conference call to deal with Prime Day glitches” by Rachel Sandler at Business Insider - July 20, 2018 Tech Tip reMarkable website reMarkable tablet at Amazon.com Neo Smart Pen “How to Buy a Kindle as a Gift for More Than One Person” by Saikat Basu at Make Use of - July 12, 2018 “Why You Should Read a Book with a Stranger” by Nick Douglas at Lifehacker - July 19, 2018 Audrey “Monitor Amazon Prices on Your Mac With This Menu Bar App” by Emily Price at Lifehacker4 - July 7, 2018 “How to install a new launcher on Amazon’s Fire tablet” by Chris Meadows at TeleRead - July 7, 2018 PriceAlert for Amazon app for Macintosh ($2.99) Interview with A G Riddle Books by A G Riddle The Origin Mystery series: The Atlantis Gene, The Atlantis Plague, and The Atlantis World Departure The Extinction Files series: Pandemic and Genome On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne and Dave King Wool Omnibus Edition [Kindle in Motion] (Silo series Book 1) by Hugh Howey David Gatewood, freelance editor Content “Amazon Publishing’s Abigail Strom, author of Tell Me, Wins Romance Writers of America 2018 RITA Award” press release July 20, 2018 “Amazon Publishing Author Christine Bell Wins International Thriller Writers’ 2018 Thriller Award for Grievance” press release July 14, 2018 Next Week’s Show A 10th anniversary look back at the first episode of The Kindle Chronicles on July 26, 2018, and what we've been talking about since then, with excerpts from interviews with Jeff Bezos and others.  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.