The Kindle Chronicles

Author of Point and Shoot Nature Photography Interview starts at 10:55 and ends at 40:30 “Each of us sees the beauty around us and the meaning and the pathos and the feeling that happens around us. And the more we share it one person to another, the more we realize we’re really all the same. We really share an experience of life on the earth that is not just mine or yours but that belongs to us all.” News “Europe has ordered Amazon to pay nearly $300 million in back taxes” by Jason Del Rey and Tony Romm at recode - October 4, 2017 “Amazon is Testing Its Own Delivery Service to Rival FedEx and UPS” by Spencer Soper at Bloomberg - October 5, 2017 The Everything Store by Brad Stone Big savings on Kindles Tech Tip “Echo devices can now call US, Canada, and Mexico numbers for free--No extra hardware necessary” at AFTnews - September 30, 2017 Interview with Stephen Ingraham Point and Shoot Nature Photography by Stephen Ingraham Pic for Today by Stephen Ingraham Point and Shoot Nature Photographer blog Zeiss Kindle and Print publish options at Kindle Direct Publishing Stephen Ingraham on Google Plus, Instagram, and Twitter Content “Why Jeff Bezos was ecstatic over today’s Nobel Prize announcement” by Tom Teodorczuk at MarketWatch - October 5, 2017 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro “Amazon support forums to shut down. Big mistake! Write Jeff.”law by David Rothman Dedication This episode of the show is dedicated to my uncle, Bert Tighe, who passed away on October 5, 2017, at the age of 92. 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!

VP & Executive Editor at the Harper Division of HarperCollins Interview starts at 21:54 and ends at 44:14 “I think publishers have some ideas about how Amazon feels about books, and I think Amazon has ideas about how little publishers about the business of books. And I think that they’re both wrong.” News “Introducing the Next Generation of Echo” - Amazon press release September 27, 2017 All-new Echo - $100 Echo Plus - $150 Echo Spot - $130 Echo Connect - $35 All-new Fire TV - $70 Echo Buttons (click at Alexa Gadgets page to be notified) Interview with Sara Nelson “Sara Nelson Heading to HarperCollins” at Publishers Weekly - June 28, 2017 Sara Nelson on TKC 419 - August 12, 2016 Omnivoracious, The Amazon Book Review Mockingbird Songs: My Friendship with Harper Lee by Wayne Flynt A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick “Making the List” by Sara Nelson at Publishers Weekly - December 22, 2008 (Includes rave mention of A Reliable Wife) The Magnificent Esme Wells: A Novel by Adrienne Sharp - Available for pre-order with delivery on April 10, 2018 Review by Sara Nelson of The True Memoirs of Little K at Oprah.com (date unknown) HarperCollins 200th anniversary Next Week’s Guest Stephen Ingram, author of Point and Shoot Nature Photography 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!

CEO of The Jillian Group Interview starts at 12:16 and ends at 35:00 “When you build relationships for the sake of relationships, amazing things can happen. Your soil becomes so rich that what can grow and harvest is well beyond what you ever could have planted if you had known.” News Amazon press release announcing all-new Fire HD 10 - September 19, 2017 “Amazon is working on smart glasses to house Alexa AI, says FT” by Natasha Lomas at TechCrunch - September 20, 2017 “Why Alexa is on track to lose the Smart Home Assistant War” by Phil Hawthorne - September 16, 2017 “Amazon has 76% smart home speaker U.S. market share as Echo unit sales reach 15M, new study finds” by Taylor Soper at GeekWire - September 18, 2017 “Amazon Isn’t Just Spending Big Bucks on Groceries” by Justin Fox at Bloomberg - June 16, 2017 Tech Tip “You can now search your library’s e-book collection straight from Google” by Sasha Lekach at Mashable - September 19, 2017 Interview with Jillian Vorce The Jillian Group 20/20 Mind Sight: Refocus, Reignite & Reinvent Your Life from the Inside Out by Jillian Vorce and Phil Fragasso Marketing for Rainmakers: 52 Rules of Engagement to Attract and Retain Customers for Life by Phil Fragasso Other books by Phil Fragasso Oprah Winfrey interviews Robert Kiyosaki (YouTube) Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money - That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! By Robert Kiyosaki The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley Hitch the movie “The Lens of Creativity” presentation by Jillian Vorce at TEDxWaldenPond (video) - November 13, 2012 “Natick Rotary Club gathers to induct new members” by Peter Golden at WickedLocal - July 5, 2012 The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls Content PBS Video app for Fire tablets The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick Outro “A Week on the Wrist: The Apple Watch Series 3 Edition” by Benjamin Clymer at Hodinkee - September 20, 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!

Vice President, Amazon Books stores Interview starts at 10:48 and ends at 42:54 “We would like people who want physical books to walk out with a book, but if you walk out of our store, and you found three things to put on your wish list and two books that you want to buy for your Kindle, then we’re very, very happy.” Intro Agents of Change conference in Portland, Maine September 15, 2017 hosted by Rich Brooks, founder of Flyte New Media News “Dear Amazon, We Picked Your New Headquarters for You” by Emily Badger, Quoctrung Bui and Claire Cain Miller at The New York Times - September 9, 2017 “Amazon Weighs Boston in Search for Second Headquarters” by Spencer Soper at Bloomberg - September 12, 2017 “Amazon Music Focusing on Alexa, Echo to Stand Out Amid Streaming Competition” by Andrew Wallenstein at Variety - September 7, 2017 “Amazon’s ‘1-Click’ patent expires today…” by Monica Nickelsburg at GeekWire - September 11, 2017 “Amazon’s 1-Click Patent is About to Expire. What’s the Big Deal?” By Julia Dewitt at NPR - September 6, 2017 Tech Tip Setting up an Echo Show remotely for my sister Interview with Jennifer Cast “Amazon’s new Belleview bookstore shows brick-and-mortar ramp-up” by Ángel Gonzáles Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel by Mark Sullivan Outro Apple Keynote including demo of Apple Watch Series 3 (at 32:20) Next Week’s Guest Jillian Vorce, author of 20/20 Mind Sight: Refocus, Reignite & Reinvent Your Life from the Inside Out 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!

Executive Editor at Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group Interview starts at13:18 and ends at 42:00 “Books these days as they are produced are pretty nice little objects. And then there are so many different ways that can work. You can read a book on your phone--a ton of people read books on their phones. They read them on the web, they read them on an eReader of choice--they can read E Ink, they can read on something like a tablet with the iPad. None of that process seems messed up to me. There’s a lot of consumer choice, and there are a lot of different ways to read the same book.” News Amazon seeks proposals for its second headquarters - September 7, 2017 “Amazon Wants A Second HQ--and Walsh Says Boston Will be ‘Laser Focused’ On Bidding” by Zeninjor Enwemeka at WBUR - September 7, 2017 “Few Cities Could Accommodate Amazon’s New Headquarters” by Conor Sen at Bloomberg - September 7, 2017 “Amazon’s second headquarters: These cities are contenders” by Irina Ivanova at CBS Moneywatch - September 7, 2017 Amazon Prime Instant Pickup “Amazon removes the Fire TV box from the ‘Fire TV Family’” at AFTVnews - September 7, 2017 Tech Tip “Amazon Customers: Beware This Scam” by Joseph Steinberg at Inc. - September 5, 2017 Interview with John Morgan Imprint, the Children’s Publishing Group at Macmillan Mr. Robot: Red Wheelbarrow “Snowfall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek” by John Branch at The New York Times - 2012 The Witcher 3 - Wild Hunt (Playstation 4) based on The Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski Tom Clancy’s The Division: New York Collapse (paperback only) Tom Clancy’s The Division (videogame) Melchor Media The Future of Storytelling Tilt Brush by Google Kesler Woodward’s Painting in the North website “Book Deal: The Wild Lands” at Paul Greci’s blog - July 14, 2017 Surviving Bear Island by Paul Greci House of Stairs and Interstellar Pig and by John Sleator (paper only) The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin Content Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: Illustrated [Kindle in Motion] Comments Next Week’s Guest Jennifer Cast, Vice President of Amazon Books, the brick-and-mortar stores unit of Amazon 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 George & Lizzie Interview starts at 14:30 and ends at 44:06 “Because of their childhoods I think they approach the world in such different ways--George the pathological optimist and Lizzie the person who knows the glass is totally empty and that you’re just imagining any water. I don’t know what keeps any two people together in a marriage, and I’ve been married 51 years!” News “‘Cortana, Open Alexa,’ Amazon Says. And Microsoft Agrees.” by Nick Wingfield at The New York Times - August 30, 2017 Amazon press release - August 30, 2017 Amazon announces Alexa Prize Finalists “Alexa, Play My Music Everywhere” - Amazon release August 29, 2017 Interview with Nancy Pearl George & Lizzie: A Novel by Nancy Pearl (available for pre-order with release on September 5, 2017) Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Reason (2003) by Nancy Pearl “‘I Want the Pages to Turn’: Librarian Nancy Pearl’s Summer Reading List” at National Public Radio’s Morning Edition - June 29, 2017 The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver Birds of America: Stories by Lorrie Moore Standard Deviation: A Novel by Katherine Heiny Books by Laurie Colwin and Anne Tyler Searching for Caleb by Anne Tyler Heart, You Bully, You Punk by Leah Hager Cohen (not available in eBook) Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust Rediscoveries series The Cowboy and the Cossack by Clair Huffaker Books by Georgette Heyer Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart by Scott Anderson Next Week’s Guest John Morgan, Executive Editor at Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group and editor for the forthcoming Young Adult novel The Wild Lands by Paul Greci 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!

Links Wyoming Eclipse Festival Vertical Horizons, co-founded by Howard Wishnow Celestron EclipSmart binoculars NASA’s Eclipse web site My 360 video of the eclipse - Part 1 and Part 2 Next Week’s Guest Nancy Pearl, author of George & Lizzie, her debut novel scheduled for release on September 5, 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!

Co-founder and CEO of ComiXology Interview starts at 9:40 and ends at 38:47 “When we made the business plan 10 years ago--it’s hard to remember this, but iPhones didn’t exist. None of us had any idea we were going to be heading into this world of carrying big pieces of glass around in our pockets or in our bags that would be so amazing for image-based reading.” News “L.L. Bean Beats Amazon.com, Once Again, For Best Customer Service” by Pam Goodfellow at Forbes - August 3, 2017 “Amazon Echo multiroom audio not far off, report says” by Megan Wollerton at CNET - August 8, 2017 “Need Something Extra Fast? Amazon Instant Pickup Launches This Week” - Amazon press release August 15, 2017 “Amazon’s Instant Pickup Service Shows Clearly Who Jeff Bezos is Targeting Next” by Eric Jhonsa at TheStreet - August 15, 2017 “Kindle Oasis in Short Supply, New Model Coming Soon?” at The eBook Reader - August 10, 2017 Tech Tip Fire HD 8 - $80 at Amazon.com Interview with David Steinberger ComiXology Guided View Native comics Box 13: The Collected Graphic Novel ComiXology Submit Xkcd John Lewis’s March series The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story ComiXology Unlimited Star Trek on ComiXology Content Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal - August 17, 2017 episode includes James Patterson speaking about Amazon and his new book, The Store The Store at Goodreads “National security advisor attempts to reconcile Trump’s competing impulses on Afghanistan” by Greg Jaffe and Philip Rucker at The Washington Post - August 4, 2017 Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Lies that Led to Vietnam by H. R. McMaster Next Week’s Show Next week’s show will originate mainly in Casper, Wyoming, where I will travel to see the total eclipse of the sun on August 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!

Amazon’s former Director of Author and Publishing Relations Interview starts at 0:22 and ends at 44:20 “I do think that there is an incredible level of smart, energetic, ambitious people at Amazon working in books. That’s an incredible asset. I’m optimistic that Amazon will continue to be able to hold its own. I also see great opportunity for others. I have a very optimistic view of the future of storytelling. I think it’s a great time to be a storyteller. You just have to be smart about the different ways you reach an audience.” Interview with Jon P. Fine OptiQly, where Jon Fine serves as General Counsel Brilliance Audio Amazon Literary Partnership E.F. Hutton ad from the late 1970s Audible Creation Exchange (ACX) “Seattle’s Finest: Jon Fine is Leaving Amazon” by Porter Anderson at Thought Catalog - October 2, 2014 Next Week’s Guest David Steinberger, co-founder and CEO of ComiXology, the digital comics and graphic novel retailer purchased three years ago by Amazon. 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 Sky Below Interview starts at 14:15 and ends at 41:36 “My goal with this book is to show people that it’s important to have high, lofty dreams, but it’s even more important to then have the vision and the resolve to make them come true.” News “Is Amazon getting too big?” by Steven Pearlstein at The Washington Post - July 28, 2017 “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox” by Lina M. Khan at the Yale Law Journal - January, 2017 “Amazon’s Jobs Fair Sends Clear Message: Now Hiring Thousands” by Noam Scheiber and Nick Wingfield at The New York Times - August 2, 2017 Tech Tip Amazon instructions for using your Alexa device to control your Fire TV Interview with Scott Parazynski The Sky Below: A True Story of Summits, Space, and Speed by Scott Parazynski Scott Parazynski on CBS This Morning - July 31, 2017 Upcoming Guests Jon Fine, strategist for digital and traditional media organizations David Steinberger, co-founder and CEO of ComiXology 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!