The Kindle Chronicles

Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research Interview starts at 9:06 and ends at 43:24 “I think Amazon feels pretty confident that they could attack any business they want, and the incumbents will spend four or five years resisting before they realize that they have no choice. Whereas a little proactive customer obsession on the part of any of those companies could probably make it so that Amazon decides to go elsewhere.” News “Kindle will evolve new forms of online literature: Sanjeev Jha, Director of Kindle Content India” by Rahul Sachitanand at The Economic times - December 10, 2017 Amazon announces expansion of Prime free same- and one-day shipping in time for Christmas (press release) - December 13, 2017 Click here to see if Amazon is offering free same-day and one-day Prime shipping to your city or town. Start a 30-day Prime Free Trial “Amazon to start selling Apple TV and Google Chromecast” by Ben Fox Rubin at CNET - December 14, 2017 Tech Tip “Amazon Alexa can now wake you up with music” by Sarah Perez at TechCrunch - December 11, 2017 Kindle Software update Interview with James McQuivey “Amazon Brings a Knife to a Mud Fight” at The Reading Edge - February 1, 2010 Echo Look Echo Show Echo Spot Persado The Stormlight Archive Book Series (including The Way of Kings) by Brandon Sanderson Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky Content “2017 This Year in Books” - Amazon’s information from Charts Next Week’s Guest Longtime London listener Mark Jarvis 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!

Esmeralda and Richard deTrafford of Geraldton, Australia Interview starts at 16:35 and ends at 40:26 “I don’t see any Amazon drones being launched here [in Australia], and I’m sure CASA [Civil Aviation Safety Authority] would have something to say about that. They're coming up with rules for drones and some of that stuff. So I don’t see that happening here any time soon.” News “Australian retailers rally as Amazon gets cool reception” by Byron Kaye at Reuters - December 4, 2017 “Amazon Australia has changed its webpage title to say it no longer just sells books” by Tony Yoo at Business Insider - December 4, 2017 “Amazon’s Weak Australia Launch is Great for eBay” by Wayne Duggan at U.S. News & World Report - December 7, 2017 “Don’t call it ‘Siri’: Why the wake word should be ‘computer’” by Stephen Harrison at Salon - November 26, 2017 Cozmo by Anki Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark “Amazon Alexa Prize Competition winner takes home $500,000 prize” at DayOne, the Amazon Blog - November 29, 2017 Interview with Richard and Esmeralda deTrafford Geraldton, Australia The Australian Accent (YouTube) Myer Market Shipster by Australia Post Aldi Content Kindle First is now Amazon First Reads “Bill Gates gives us his top 5 favorite books for winter reading” at Boing Boing Next Week's Guest James McQuivey, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research 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 Score Publishing, producer of Digital Book World 2018 Interview starts at 15:44 and ends at 43:43 “The Echo Show is an incredible glimpse into the future, because the future is going to be words come out of your mouth, and that’s how you engage the computer rather than typing on a QWERTY keyboard or moving a mouse.” News “Amid Takeover Talk, Barnes & Noble Posts $30 million Q2 Loss, Stock Sheds 10%” by Jonathan Ponciano at Forbes - November 30, 2017 “B&N Has Disappointing Second Quarter” by Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly - November 1, 2017 “Barnes & Noble’s sales hit by the curse of Harry Potter” by the AP - December 1, 2017 “To save itself, Barnes & Noble is pivoting to books” by Thu-Huong Ha at Quartz - November 30, 2017 “Why Barnes & Noble Wants Smaller Stores” by Phil Wahba at Fortune - November 30, 2017 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling “No takeover for Barnes and Noble after that earnings bomb” at Yahoo Finance - November 30, 2017 “4 Reasons Barnes and Noble Failed the Nook” by Jessie Nuez at Babble - 2013 “Amazon’s Alexa heads to the workplace” by Dave Lee at BBC - November 30, 2017 Interview with Bradley Metrock Score Publishing Digital Book World Alexa Conference - Keynote by Ahmed Bouzid, CEO Witlingo (and original head of product for Amazon's Alexa and Connected Homes initiative) Tellables, Earplay (TKC interview with CEO Jon Myers in November, 2016), and Novel Effect VoiceFirst.FM AWS Reinvent Tim O’Reilly’s Tools of Change conference Author Earnings (Hugh Howey and Data Guy) Apple’s iBooks Author WTF?: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up To Us by Tim O’Reilly Outro Music: “Happiness (in F major) by Bradley Metrock on Mountain Radio Silence, used with permission 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!

Editorial Director, AmazonCrossing Interview starts at 18:00 and ends at 43:42 “One of the magical things about publishing is that when you get together with other people who work in this industry and immediately we share a common bond, this passion for bringing books to readers. It’s not unique. It is really wonderful to stand in a room full of people who are putting everything on the line toward that effort every day and who are excited to hear about the work that we’re doing to bring more diversity to literature through translation.” (Photo by Dean Whitmore) News “How the Kindle was designed through 10 years and 16 generations” by Devin Coldewey at TechCrunch - November 20, 2017 Chris Green on The Kindle Chronicles in April, 2016 Firmware updates page for Amazon devices Tech Tips Fire HD 8 - $30 off for Black Friday/Cyber Monday Fire HD 10 - $50 off for Black Friday/Cyber Monday “YouTube is Back on Amazon Echo Show” by Bret Kinsella at Voicebot - November 21, 2017 Eddie Mikell’s Echo Dot setup for the car (YouTube) CoolStream Duo Bluetooth adapter ($29.99) at Amazon.com Interview with Gabriella Page-Fort Books published by AmazonCrossing Chad Post’s Three Percent blog at University of Rochester The Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch, translated by Lee Chadeayne The Glass Blower Trilogy by Petra Durst-Benning, translated by Samuel Willcocks The Great Passage by Shion Miura, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan, translated by Yuri Machkasov P.S. From Paris by Marc Levy, translated by Sam Taylor A number of titles from Petra Durst-Benning The House by the River by Lena Manta, translated by Gail Holst-Warhaft (discovered through the AmazonCrossing submissions portal) A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa, translated by Risa Kobayashi and Martin Brown The Honest Spy by Andreas Kollender, translated by Steve Anderson An American Princess by Annejet van der Zijl, translated by Michele Hutchison The Judgment of Richard Richter by Igor Štiks, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac (discovered through the submissions site) Go by Kazuki Kaneshiro, translated by Takami Nieda (discovered through the submissions site) The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett [Kindle in Motion] “AmazonCrossing Editorial Director Gabriella Page-Fort Named 2017 PW Star Watch ‘Super Star’” by Porter Anderson at Publishing Perspectives - September 6, 2017 Content Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle, illustrated by Jill McElmurry The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle 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!

Amazon Senior Vice President Interview starts at 20:45 and ends at 43.37 “It was the first time we were building a device, so we had a lot to learn. After that the team and as a company we got better each time. So our second Kindle was developed more quickly, and now as you know that team is launching Kindles and Fire TVs and Fire tablets and Echos and more every year.” News Amazon Key “Amazon will start delivering packages into the homes of Prime members” by Jason Del Rey at Recode - October 25, 2017 “Amazon Key Flaw Could Let Rogue Deliverymen Disable Your Camera” by Andy Greenberg at Wired - November 16, 2017 “Amazon’s Hall of Spinning Knives” by David Gaughran at Let’s Get Digital - October 20, 2017 “Alibaba Singles’ Day Racks Up $1 Billion in Sales in 2 Minutes” at Bloomberg - November 10, 2017 “Amazon’s Prime Day Generates Estimated $1 Billion in Sale” by Spencer Soper at Bloomberg - July 12, 2017 “Alibaba’s Singles Day Sales Hit New Record of $25.3 Billion” by Tiffany Hsu at The New York Times - November 10, 2017 Jeff Bezos 1997 interview by Richard Wiggins (YouTube) Amazon’s Black Friday deals Tech Tips All-New Kindle Oasis My video review of the new Kindle Oasis Fawlty Towers Echo Show Garmin Speak Interview with Steve Kessel “Amazon SVP Steve Kessel returns from sabbatical to work on ‘super secret’ project” by Tricia Duryee at GeekWire - February 4, 2015 “Meet the Guy Behind Amazon’s Secret Retail Store Plans” by Jason del Rey - February 3, 2016 Harry Bingham on TKC 469 - July, 2017 X-Ray for Authors Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann Best Books of 2017 selected by Amazon Books editors “Amazon just revealed the most popular Kindle books of all time” by MJ Franklin at Mashable - November 14, 2017 Content A Look Back at Kindle Bestsellers Next Week’s Guest Gabriella Page-Fort, editorial director for AmazonCrossing 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 I Wore My Blackest Hair Interview starts at 12:34 and ends at 39:39 “I’m not sure about the future of Amazon [Publishing] in the literary world at large. I do think that for my book it’s been really interesting working with them and being able to answer those questions [about audience] and also to challenge myself more about how do I see this book existing in the world and what kind of spaces do I want it to enter and what kind of people do I want it to encounter. I think that working with Amazon has been interesting in that way, because they do have a very broad reach, and a very established way of doing things that for me has given a lot of structure to thinking about the book being out in the world.” News Brad Stone interviewed on Wall Street Journal Moneybeat Book Club podcast - November 4, 2017 “Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos: “Told You I’m a Tech Buff” at TMZ - July 14, 2017 “Kindle with your kale? Amazon to sell electronic devices in Whole Foods stores” by Matt Day at The Seattle Times - November 9, 2017 Amazon Prime Now Tech Tip “Kindle e-readers to get Audible” - Michael Kozlowski Good E Reader video - November 2, 2017 Creating Alexa Voice Profiles - Amazon video “Alexa Adds the ability to recognize different speakers’ voices” by Kevin Murnane at Forbes - October 12, 2017 Interview with Carlina Duan I Wore My Blackest Hair by Carlina Duan - available for pre-order from Little a with delivery November 14, 2017 The Black Maria and Teeth by Aracelis Girmay The Dark Noise Collective Morgan Parker Goodreads book giveaway for I Wore My Blackest Hair (ends November 13, 2017) “Writing as Fuel” by Carlina Duan at The Michigan Daily - July 23, 2014 Day One, Amazon Publishing’s weekly digital literary journal Vanderbilt University MFA program Morgan Parker interview on TKC 391 - January 28, 2016 Content A Polish eBook subscription service Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann Best Books of 2017 as selected by Amazon’s book editors “The Internet Archive ‘Liberates’ Books Published Between 1923 and 1941, and Will Put 10,000 Digitized Books Online” at Open Culture - November 9, 2017 Next Week’s Guest Steve Kessel, Amazon Senior VP and head of the team that created the first 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!

Author of The Quantum Spy Interview starts at 12:12 and ends at 34:00 “Jeff Bezos has been a great owner for The Post. He invested in our business. He has generally stayed away and let the editors and our publisher, Fred Ryan, run the business. He intervenes only occasionally. The first meeting he had when he came to The Post, he said, ‘I don’t know what’s going to work, but I want to lengthen the runway, so you have more time to experiment and take off.’ And we have begun to take off. We’re not rolling in money, but The Post is profitable again. I wondered if I’d ever see that. Our web traffic keeps exploding.” News All-New Kindle Oasis ships on Halloween “All-New Kindle Oasis survives ocean dunking” by David Rothman at TeleRead - October 31, 2017 “Is the Kindle Oasis Really Worth It?” - my video review of the original Oasis in 2016 Interview with David Ignatius The Quantum Spy by David Ignatius Other novels by David Ignatius at Amazon.com Body of Lies, the 2008 movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, based on the novel by David Ignatius “Our Villains, Ourselves: A Thriller Roundup” by Marisha Pessel at The New York Times - October 25, 2017 Content PBS NewsHour profile of author Jesmyn Ward - October 27, 2017 Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward Comments Calibre My video review of the new Kindle Oasis - October 31, 2017 Outro Bufo Calvin’s “Because of the Kindle” project Next Week’s Guest Carlina Duan, author of I Wore My Blackest Hair, a debut poetry collection that will be published on November 14th by Little a, the literary imprint of Amazon Publishing. 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!

Kindle Creative Director Seth Micarelli, left, and Mike Torres, Kindle director of product management and design Amazon announces all-new Kindle app (press release) - October 24, 2017 All-New Kindle Oasis Kindle Select, Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) Kindle Unlimited and Prime Reading Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari Next Week’s Guest David Ignatius, Washington Post columnist and author of The Quantum Spy: A Thriller, available for pre-order with delivery November 7, 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!

Author of A Beautiful Work in Progress Interview starts at 18:20 and ends at 43:17 “Whatever kind of mindset they’re stuck in about whether it’s weight loss or about whether or not you should be out there running in your big body, because maybe you’re going to hurt your knees or your back. You don’t know. You don’t know me. I don’t know you. You do your run, I do my run. And then we’ll all be happy.” News “As Amazon’s deadline for HQ2 bids closes, speculation on winner heats up” by Matt Day at The Seattle Times - October 19, 2017 “Where Amazon’s Next Headquarters Should Go” by Mark Zandi and Adam Ozimek at Moody’s Analytics - October 12, 2017 “Amazon is Most Likely To Build Its Second Headquarters In One Of These Five Cities” by Marcia Layton Turner at Forbes - October 19, 2017 “Boston Pushes Talent and Education in Amazon HQ2 Bid” by Zeninjor Enwemeka at WBUR - October 20, 2017 The Quantum Spy: A Thriller by David Ignatius - available for pre-order, delivered November 7, 2017 Tech Tip New Kindle Oasis (8th Generation) software update 5.8.11 Interview with Mirna Valerio A Beautiful Work in Progress by Mirna Valerio Fat Girl Running Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan The Masters School at Dobbs Ferry A Cappella Books in Atlanta Content “(Not so scary) Books for Little Ghosts, Ghouls and Narwhals” by Seira Wilson at The Amazon Book Review - October 5, 2017 How Will You Measure Your Life? By Clayton M. Christensen 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!

Arthur van Rest, left, GM Kindle Device & Accessories at Amazon, and Hany Ghali, Senior Product Manager, Kindle at Amazon Lab126 Interviews Arthur van Rest and Hany Ghali at product demo October 5, 2017 in New York City: Starts at 7:22 and ends at 9:48 Hany Ghali phone/skype interview from Sunnyvale, California, on October 10, 2017: Starts at 20:26 and ends at 41:06 To purchase an all-new Kindle Oasis, please consider starting at The Kindle Chronicles home page and clicking on the Amazon ad at the upper right. That will generate an Amazon Associates commission that supports my show, and your cost will be the same. Thanks! 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!