The Kindle Chronicles

Author of Somebody’s Daughter Interview starts at 17:04 and ends at 43:26 “I think there’s nothing more terrifying than the realization that someone you thought you knew--whether it’s your spouse, your parent, your sibling, someone you thought you knew really well, someone in your family--has been keeping some kind of secret from you.” Photo by Glen Rose Photography News Kindle Paperwhite will be on sale for $80 ($40 off) on Prime Day. “Amazon is giving Prime members up to $30 in free cash for shopping at Whole Foods this week” by Hayley Peterson at Business Insider - July 10, 2018 “Watch out, retailers. This is just how big Amazon is becoming” by Lauren Thomas and Courtney Reagan at CNBC - July 13, 2018 “Amazon Go Means Goodby Status Quo” by Chris Walton at Forbes - July 6, 2018 Chris Walton’s Omni Talk blog Tech Tip First impressions of Amazon’s Show Mode Dock for Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Interview with David Bell Western Kentucky University MFA program Somebody’s Daughter by David Bell Other novels by David Bell at Amazon.com Next Week’s Guest Author A.G. Riddle 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.

  Founder & Chief Trailblazer of Retirepreneur Interview starts at 16:01 and ends at 40:10 “I went deep into Kindle and the electronic piece, and then I began pulling back some. I would tell you right now I am right down the middle. I’m a hybrid.” News Amazon’s Prime Day starts July 16th at 3 pm ET “How to Get Primed for Amazon Prime Day” at Wired - July 3, 2018 Delta Trinsic faucet with Alexa control (new product launch on Prime Day) Prime Day “Home Smart Home” sweepstakes “Why Amazon keeps making tablets when the market has been struggling” by Hayley Tsukayama at The Washington Post - July 5, 2018 Amazon’s 2nd Go Store Planned for Seattle (GeekWire) - July 3, 2018 Tech Tip A look back at print technology for annotations Interview with Donna Kastner Retirepreneur Retirepreneur Podcast AARP NextAvenue South By Southwest Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA) Ask More: The Power of Questions to Open Doors, Uncover Solutions, and Spark Change by Frank Sesno Content Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World by Eric Metaxas Mark Twain: A Life by Ron Powers “The Most Important Sci-Fi Show of the 90’s Hits Amazon Prime in June” by Ryan Britt at Inverse - May 17, 2018 Babylon 5 Season 1 (Prime Video) Next Week’s Guest David Bell, author of Somebody’s Daughter 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 Deadly Edits and Liss MacCrimmon Mysteries Interview starts at 16:16 and ends at 44:12 “What I try to do is after I get up and have my coffee and my toast, is to come into my office and sit down and write at least one scene, the next scene in the story. I do that usually seven days a week.” Tech Tip My comparison of Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant News Prime Wardrobe Alexa on iPhone and iPad (TechCrunch) Show Mode Dock for Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 10 Interview with Kathy Lynn Emerson Crime & Punctuation (first in the Deadly Edits Series) by Kaitlyn Dunnett The Liss MacCrimmon Mysteries by Kaitlyn Dunnett Murder in a Cornish Alehouse: An Elizabethan Thriller (A Mistress Jaffrey Mystery) by Kathy Lynn Emerson Sisters in Crime Mystery Writers of America “Lack of Oxford comma costs Maine company millions in overtime dispute” by Daniel Victor at The Boston Globe - March 16, 2017 A Who’s Who of Tudor Women Kathy Lynn Emerson’s four-book Diana Spaulding Mysteries series published by Belgrave House Next Week’s Guest Donna Kastner, founder and chief trailblazer of Retirepreneuer. 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.

Seattle Music and Arts Pioneer Interview starts at 9:38 and ends at 44:45 “There it was, the [Seattle] head tax. ‘We’re going to do it, this is what we’re going to do. It’s going to address homelessness. We’ll collect the money--we don’t know how we’re going to spend it yet, but we’re going to hit these businesses with this tax.’ That’s just not the way to govern, in my opinion.” News Atul Gawande to head Amazon-Berkshire-JP Morgan health organization, as covered in The New York Times and The Washington Post Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande Amazon Prime Day 2018 will begin July 16, according to a Techradar scoop. TechRadar’s Prime Day hub Supreme Court ruling allowing states to force online retailers to collect sales tax (Bloomberg and Recode) Alexa in hotels Google Home Hub by Amazon Tech Tip Fire TV Cube Interview with Ricardo Frazer Sir Mix-a-Lot (Wikipedia) Sir Mix-a-Lot web site Zaki-Rose Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) Seattle Theatre Group 4Culture “Amazon to Share New Building with Homeless Shelter in Seattle” by Nick Wingfield at The New York Times - May 10, 2017 Mary’s Place “Jeff Bezos Wants Ideas for Philanthropy, So He Asked Twitter” by Nick Wingfield at The New York Times - June 15, 2017 Next Week’s Guest Kathy Lynn Emerson, author of Crime & Punctuation (Deadly edits). 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.

New Owner of Digital Book World Interview starts at 12:01 and ends at 43:50 “Everything with books orbits  discoverability. That’s the billion-dollar problem. That’s the problem that Apple has never figured out yet. That’s the problem that Amazon has sort of figured out.” News Target dazzles me with service Rebranding Prime Mayday! Mayday! The end of a great customer help service. Tech Tip Alexa on your Apple Watch How to read PDF’s on your Kindle Try “Alexa, play the podcast The Kindle Chronicles” Interview with Bradley Metrock Digital Book World VoiceFirst.FM and This Week in Voice “What to expect from the new Digital Book World” by PG at The Passive Voice - October 19, 2018 Alexa Skill Blueprints and Storyline SoundHound “Walt Mossberg to keynote Digital Book World 2018” - November 26, 2017 WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us by Tim O’Reilly Outro Thanks to Preston Edmands and Lindsay Babayan of Flyte New Media for the all-new design for my show notes page. And to Rich Brooks, Flyte’s founder and president, who is helping me consider initiatives to grow the TKC audience. His excellent digital marketing podcast, Agents of Change, is a must if you are looking to expand your own reach via the Internet. Rich also convenes an annual Agents of Change conference in Portland, Maine, which I have attended regularly and I ways learn lots when I go. I think of it as a mini South By Southwest by the Sea, and this year it will be held on September 20th and 21st. 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 to download this episode as an mp3 file.

Author of “The List” in Amazon’s The Real Thing Collection Interview starts at 13:23 and ends at 39:21 “I think we look at the Big Five publishers as being kind of set in their ways and really traditional, but I actually think that everyone is looking to try new things. I think everyone is realizing that just putting out a hardcover in the exact same way isn’t going to always work in a way that they would hope. It’s more that I’m just excited about different ways of approaching storytelling.” (Photo credit: Teresa Flowers) News Echo Look ($199.99) is now available to all U.S. customers (press release) - June 6, 2018 “Want to Read Michael Lewis’s Next Work? You’ll Be Able to Listen to It First” by Alexandra Alter at The New York Times - June 2, 2018 Amazon Fire TV Cube “Amazon’s Fire TV Cube is an Echo, streamking box, and universal remote in one” by Chris Welch at The Verge - June 7, 2018 Interview with Jade Chang “The List” by Jade Chang in the Amazon Original Stories collection, The Real Thing The Wangs Vs. the World by Jade Chang “The Deceptively Simple Work of an Artist Who Hallucinated as a Child” by Tasos Gaintatzis and Marina Legaki at The Hundreds - December 19, 2014 “Love and Estrogen” by Samantha Allen in The Real Thing collection Content “What Books are Highlighted the Most Densely?” By Daniel Doyon at Readwise - May 10, 2018 Next Week’s Guest Bradley Metrock, CEO of Score Publishing, which is the new owner of Digital Book World, scheduled for October 2nd through 4th in Nashville, Tennessee. 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!

Senior Editor, The Information Interview starts at 11:36 and ends at 43:50 “[Amazon’s HQ2 decision] will be before the end of the year, unless something radical changes. I don’t think it’s imminent. It’s probably--I’m guessing here--but it’s probably months away. I would guess like towards the end of the summer, early fall. That’s really not based on hard facts but kind of reading between the lines.” News Data Guy’s presentation to the 2018 Science Fiction Writers of America conference “Amazon Publishing Has Signed with Patricia Cornwell for an Exclusive New Series” by Adam Rowe at Forbes - May 29, 2018 “Where Will Amazon HQ2 Go? Ranking Puts Raleigh on Top, Boston at Bottom” by Alexandre Tanzi at Bloomberg - May 30, 2018 Tech Tip My current stylus for Kindle and tablet reading Interview with Nick Wingfield “‘The Information’ hires NY Times’ Wingfield” by Chris Rouh at Taking Biz News - May 15, 2018 The Information Next Week’s Guest Jade Chang, a contributor to the first Amazon Original Stories collection, titled The Real Thing: A Bundle of Love Stories. 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!

Author of the Frank Adversego Thriller Series Interview starts at 11:14 and ends at 35:51 “Alexa’s pretty primitive. I think it’s very concerning from a cybersecurity point of view, because people have already learned how to spoof Alexa. Just a few days ago they came up with the equivalent of a dog whistle-type command that you couldn't hear, but Alexa could. Someone could turn it on and off.” News “An Amazon Echo recorded a family’s conversation, then sent it to a random person in their contacts, report says” by Hamza Shaban at The Washington Post - May 24, 2018 “Don’t Freak Out About That Amazon Alexa Eavesdropping Situation” by Lily Hay Newman at Wired - May 24, 2018 “HBG, Amazon Partner on Narrative Content for Echo Device” by Calvin Reid at Publishers Weekly - May 22, 2018 “Are ebooks dying or thriving? The answer is yes” by Thu-Huong Ha at Quartz - May 13, 2018 Tech Tip Use Household Profiles to Share Your Fire Tablet - Amazon.com Interview with Andrew Updegrove The Frank Adversego Thrillers by Andrew Updegrove at Amazon.com The Blockchain Affair (chapter by chapter, beginning with Prologue and Chapter 1) Andrew-Updegrove.com Content Books on Artificial Intelligence recommended by Andy Updegrove: Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies 1st Edition by Nick Bostrom Thinking Machines: The Quest for Artificial Intelligence--and Where It’s Taking Us Next by Luke Dormehi The Quest for Artificial Intelligence by Nils J. Nilsson Podcast interviews with James and Deborah Fallows, authors of Our Towns: A 100,000 Mile Journey into the Heart of America: Max Linsky of the Longform Podcast, Ezra Klein of The Ezra Klein Show, John Dickerson of the CBS This Morning Podcast, Sam Wang of the WooCast Politics & Polls podcast, and Chuck Todd of Meet the Press podcast. Next Week’s Guest Nick Wingfield, former tech reporter at The New York Times, currently senior editor at The Information Outro Thanks to Stephen Campbell of The Author Biz podcast for generously helping me meet the deadline for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that went into effect in Europe today. I modeled my new Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy on Stephen’s website. 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!

Editor-in-Chief of Good E-Reader Interview starts at 3:45 and ends at 33:51 News “Amazon Go cashier-free store could be headed to SF’s Union Square” by Matier & Ross at The San Francisco Chronicle - May 13, 2018 “The Information hires NY Times’s Wingfield” by Chris Roush at Talking Biz News - May 15, 2018 The Information “Trump personally pushed postmaster general to double rates on Amazon, other firms” by Damian Paletta and Josh Dawsey at The Washington Post  - May 18, 2018 “You’ll soon hear 8 new voices in Amazon Alexa skills” by Michelle Fitzsimmons at Techradar - May 16, 2018 Tech Tip “How to Tag Your Highlights While You Read” by Daniel Doyon at Readwise - May 16, 2018 Readwise.io Interview with Michael Kozlowski Good e-Reader Good e-Reader app store and YouTube channel Good e-Reader store “Storytel e-Reader will launch this summer” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E-Reader - May 16, 2018 Storytel Kobo “How CLEARink technology is going to change e-readers for the better” by Markus Reily at Good E-Reader - August 1, 2017 CLEARink Interview with Dr. Jeanne Tifts, English teacher at Belmont Hill School (Interview begins at 33:52 and ends at 43:50) Loom Next Week’s Guest Andrew Updegrove, author of  The Turing Test: A Tale of Artificial Intelligence and Malevolence (Frank Adversego Thrillers Book 4) Outro music by the Belmont Hill School B-flats Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Authors of Our Towns: A 100,000-mile Journey Into the Heart of America Interview starts at 9:43 and ends at 39:14 “James Fallows: ‘Through my reportorial lifetime I’ve seen a number crises for the American system, which the U.S. has so far managed to muddle its way through. That does not guarantee continued muddling, but I personally am more heartened than I thought I would be by all this resilience around the country. So Deb, will we make it?’ Deborah Fallows: ‘I’m going to say we’ll make it. It’s the generations that are coming up--it’s their turn to help make this right now.” News “Bezos: A CEO Who Can Write” by Jean-Louis Gassée at Monday Note (Medium) - April 29, 2018 Jeff Bezos’s Letters to Shareholders “Warren Buffett Says He Was Wrong About Google and Amazon” by David Z. Morris at Fortune - May 6, 2018 “Amazon is starting to scan customers’ bodies in the name of online shopping” by Lulu Chang at Fox News - May 7, 2018 Interview with James Fallows and Deborah Fallows Our Towns: A 100,000-mile Journey Into the Heart of America “Where History is Being Made” by David Brooks at The New York Times - February 7, 2018 Books by James Fallows Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language by Deborah Fallows 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!