The Kindle Chronicles

Author of The Deepest Grave (Fiona Griffiths Crime Thriller Series Book 6) Interview starts at 12:26 and ends at 42:13 “The Big 5 publishers do have a model of ‘We will buy your book for life plus 70 years. In other words, I will get my books back about the time Bernie Madoff gets out of jail.” News Amazon earnings release - July 27, 2017   Earnings coverage by Recode and Publishers Weekly Inside Edge Amazon Video original series in India “This is Amazon’s Next Big Target” by CNBC - July 26, 2017 “Books are back, and that’s a very bad thing” by Graham Cooke at finder.com.au “For 4 Seattle women called Alexa, it’s funny, frustrating to share name with Amazon’s device” by William Robert Ferrer at The Seattle Times - July 21, 2017 Scott Galloway: Amazon will be broken up (video) - July 13, 2017 “Trump Accuses Washington Post of being lobbyist weapon for Amazon” by Jacqueline Thomsen at USA Today - July 24, 2017 Tech Tip Standard Ebooks Interview with Harry Bingham The Deepest Grave by Harry Bingham Books by Harry Bingham at Amazon.com The Writers’ Workshop Harry Bingham interview in August, 2015, on TKC 367 An Interview with Fiona Griffiths Content Mermaid by Jody Picoult, a Kindle Single with Kindle in Motion animation The Miracle of Dunkirk by Walter Lord, e-book published by Open Road Media Next Week’s Guest Scott Parazynski, author of The Sky Below: A True Story of Summits, Space, and Speed, available for pre-order from Amazon Publishing with release on August 1, 2017 Outro Ellamy Tiller and The Twang High Strung Reunion 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!

Founder of StandardEbooks.org Interview starts at 11:43 and ends at 40:40 “One of the criteria for the books that we accept is that we very specifically don’t want to become a dumping ground for everything public domain. I think Project Gutenberg suffers from that to some extent. They are more of an archival website at this point. Anything and everything that was produced before 1923 gets on there, and a lot of stuff just wasn’t good. A lot of stuff didn’t survive for a reason.” News “Amazon launched 22 years ago this week--here’s what shopping on Amazon was like back in 1995” by Caroline Cakebread at Business Insider - July 20, 2017 “Here is the First Book Ever Ordered on Amazon” by Megan Garber at The Atlantic - October 31, 2012 Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas Hofstadter “Amazon possibly working on new stand-alone messaging app called Anytime” at AFTVnews - July 13, 2017 “PSA: here’s how to put your old Amazon shipping boxes to good use” by Natt Garun at The Verge - July 15, 2017 Give Back Box “Amazon’s next Echo will be more like Apple’s HomePod” by Devindra Hardawar at Engadget - July 12, 2017 Amazon Treasure Truck “The First Alexa Phone Gets Amazon Even Closer to Total Domination” by Brian Barrett and David Pierce at Wired - July 18, 2017 Interview with Alex Cabal Standard Ebooks Project Gutenberg “The $5 million ‘Blurred Lines’ legal fight over the song’s ‘vibe’ could permanently change the music industry” by Paul Schrodt at Business Insider - December 15, 2015 Calibre Books mentioned that are available at Standard Ebooks:   The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin   North of Boston by Robert Frost   Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, translated by George Long   A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay   Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling   The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington Content Amazon Rapids feature Signature Stories Next Week’s Guest Harry Bingham, author of The Deepest Grave, the sixth book in the Fiona Griffiths detective seri3s 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!

New co-owner of Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver Interview starts at 19:56 and ends at 43:00 “Bookstores have evolved over the years to become very much experiential retailing, and we’re no different.” News “Amazon Prime Day breaks record; sales grew by more than 60 percent” by Lauren Thomas at CNBC - July 12, 2017 (includes video of analyst Jan Kniffen) Amazon press release on Prime Day - July 12, 2017 Furbo Dog Camera Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine Tech Tip Libby by OverDrive CloudLibrary Interview with Len Vlahos Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver Books by Len Vlahos: The Scar Boys, Scar Girl, and Life in a Fishbowl Starred reviews of Life in a Fishbowl in Publishers Weekly and Booklist Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken - Audible and Kindle The Chaos of Standing Still by Jessica Brody - available for preorder, delivery on November 28, 2017 “SNL writer-turned-senator Al Franken talks Colorado politics ahead of Denver stop” by John Wenzel at The Denver Post - June 14, 2017 Tattered Cover Event Calendar 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 All our Waves Are Water: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment and the Perfect Ride Interview starts at 9:50 and ends at 35:52 “All memoirs build a container that’s something of a lie. (You can never say it all.) But this book gets a little closer to the truth in that surfing and Zen are just big characters among many.” (Photo by Peter Dawson) News Camino Island by John Grisham “Amazon bookstores to participate in Prime Day for the first time” by Tonya Garcia at MarketWatch - July 5, 2017 Prime Day in Amazon Books stores Echo Show Nintendo Switch (gray) Jeff Bezos’s tweet with link to New York Times column by The Haggler “The Secrets of Bezos: How Amazon Became the Everything Store” by Brad Stone at Bloomberg - October 10, 2013 Tech Tip Click here to find Audible upgrades on your Kindle books. Interview with Jaimal Yogis Jaimal Yogis on TKC 236 in February, 2013 Books by Jaimal Yogis:   All Our Waves Are Water: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment and the Perfect Ride (Published July 4, 2017)   The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Survival, Success, Surfing...and Love (2013)   Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer’s Quest to Find Zeon on the Sea (2009) Saltwater Buddha The Film Content Standard Ebooks Comments Caseable cover for Kindle Voyage “15 first-class Kindle Voyage cases and covers” by Piotr Kowalczyk at Ebook Friendly - February 19, 2017 Next Week’s Guest Alex Cabal, founder of Standard Ebooks 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 Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future Interview starts at 18:40 and ends at 43:00 “All the visions that most people have of the future are all dystopian, and they’re afraid. They’re worried. And yet the reality, the scientific evidence is that we are much better off today. Any of your listeners are 10 times better off than 10 or 20 years ago. ” News “Early data suggests Amazon’s Echo Show could be a hit with consumers” by Jonathan Camhi at Business Insider - May 24, 2017 Echo Show - $230 at Amazon.com. Buy two, save $100. Prime Day Insider Guide “The 5 best Amazon Prime Day deals you can actually get right now” by Samantha Gordon at USA Today - June 30, 2017 Interview with Kevin Kelly The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age by Sven Birkerts Samsung Gear VR and Controller Magic Leap Recomendo newsletter Next Week’s Guest Jaimal Yogis, author of All Our Waves Are Water: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment and the Perfect Ride, The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Survival, Success, Surfing...And Love, and Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer’s Quest to Find Zen on the Sea 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!

Reader’s Advisory Librarian at Seattle Public Library Interview starts at 12:20 and ends at 37:05 “The Seattle Library has seen an exponential growth in our e-book usage, which like elsewhere is not cutting into our print usage. It’s additive, which is really interesting to say. Same with audiobooks. These new formats just seem to bring new people into reading and literature, so that’s all to the good.” (Photo by John Lok, The Seattle Times) News “New findings suggest it might be better to read toddlers an e-book than a print book” by Emma Young at The British Psychological Society Research Digest - June 15, 2017 “Amazon’s New Customer” by Ben Thompson at Stratechery - June 19, 2017 “In Whole Foods, Bezos Gets a Sustainably Sourced Guinea Pig” by Farhad Manjoo at The New York Times - June 17, 2017 “Open Road Integrated Media Newsletters Reach One Million Subscribers” - press release on June 22, 2017 Tech Tips “Introducing Smart Home Camera Control with Alexa” by Jeff Blankenburg at Alexa Blogs - June 22, 2017 Interview with David Wright Seattle Public Library Nancy Pearl on TKC 268 Books by Jerome Charyn and James Sallis The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Books by Joanna Russ Selected Shorts podcast Books by Richard Matheson Amazon support for Mary’s Place - Seattle Times May 14, 2017 Internet Archive The Mysteries of Paris by Eugéne Sue The Collected Works of Jack London A Natural History of Hell: Stories by Jeffrey Ford (Includes “The Blameless”) Articles by and about David Wright: “Librarians of the 21st Century: Worst Story Time Ever? (Or Best?)” at LitHub - March 14, 2017 “Seattle library offers suspenseful story time just for grown-ups” by Nicole Einbinder at The Seattle Times - March 3, 2017 “Behind the Bookshelf: At home with a librarian” by Kelly Skahan at Seattle Refined Readings (mp3) by David Wright: Thrilling Tales events - a couple of ghost stories Jean-Ah Poquelin, an old New Orleans Horror story by George Washington Cabell - Some classic short-short stories: William Hope Hodgson's A Voice in the Night Nikolai Gogol's The Nose Love Poems, by Lon Otto (NPR) A pair of holiday tales (I read for NPR) Content The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly George and Lizzy: A Novel by Nancy Pearl (Available for pre-order) Comment “Here’s An Idea For Amazon Kindle Books” by Dan Barnett at Medium - June 21, 2017 Next Week’s Guest Kevin Kelly, author of The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future 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 and Co-founder of Book Riot Interview starts at 10:10 and ends at 43:25 “If publishers woke up tomorrow and sanely priced e-books, I think it would be different in degree not in kind. I don’t think we’d see 10x growth in e-books’ market share. Maybe there would be 5, 10 percent [growth in] market share. I don’t know.” News “Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7 billion” by Nick Turner at Bloomberg - June 16, 2071 Press Release announcing Whole Foods acquisition - June 16, 2017 “Cramer: Amazon could dominate food retail within two years” video at CNBC - June 16, 2017 “Amazon will be the first company worth $1 trillion” by Eric Johnson at Recode - June 12, 2017 Jeff Bezos tweet re: philanthropy The Case for a National Library Endowment via David Rothman   Tech Tips “How to install Google Play on Kindle Fire (without root) by Olga & Rachel at Love My Fire Yousician Interview with Jeff O’Neal The Reading Ape Book Riot Book Riot podcasts: Book Riot, All the Books, Get Booked, SFF Yeah! (science fiction/fantasy), and Read or Dead (mystery/thriller) Maud Newton’s blog The Elegant Variation Clinton Kabler, chief operating officer and co-founder of Riot New Media Group Rebecca Joines Schinsky, executive director of product and ecommerce at Riot New Media Group Amanda Nelson, managing editor of Book Riot The New York Times Book Review Goodreads Wattpad Scribd Audible Next Week’s Guest David Wright, readers advisory librarian at the Seattle Library 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 chief publishing officer of Unbound Interview starts at 8:56 and ends at 42:25 “It’s not so much the elephant in the room. We are the room inside the elephant, if you look at the size that Amazon is growing as an online retailer. That kind of troubles me, because I feel a little bit like when publishing does get round to direct-to-consumer it will already be too late. ” News “Amazon Will Be the Fifth Largest Bookstore Chain” by Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly - June 1, 2017 Amazon Fresh “Amazon is going after Walmart with a 45 percent discount on Prime for lower-income shoppers” by Jason Del Rey at Recode - June 6, 2017 Tech Tips “Amazon Unveils New Kindle Highlight and Note System” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - June 6, 2017 Interview with John Mitchinson John Mitchinson on TKC 213 in 2012 Unbound Unbound co-founders Justin Pollard and Dan Kiernan QI (Quite Interesting), the BBC quiz show Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts Kickstarter and Indiegogo Unbound books by Jonathan Meades and Jonathan Coe Morgan Entrekin, president and publisher of Grove/Atlantic Books, cofounder of the Literary Hub website (Click here for Morgan’s appearance on The Kindle Chronicles in May of 2016 at BookExpo America.) Unbound’s Backlisted podcast hosted by John Mitchinson and Andy Miller (author of The Year of Reading Dangerously) at SoundCloud and iTunes Unbound Digital books at Amazon.com A Murder of Crows by Ian Skewis The Elegant Art of Falling Apart by Jessica Jones - $10.99 on Kindle, or $7.00 at Unbound (.mobi file download) A Box of Birds by Charles Fernyhough - $7.00 at Unbound Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience compiled by Shaun Usher - $15.39 on Kindle or $22.97 in hardcover at Amazon.com; $15 eBook or $35 special hardback edition at Unbound The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla (Unbound) Tatterdemalion by Sylvia Linsteadt, illustrated by Rima Staines (Unbound) I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon Content “5 Good Summer Reads” by Bill Gates at Gates Notes - May 22, 2017 Book Riot podcast with mention of Gates’s 5 Summer reads Next Week’s Guest Jeff O’Neal, executive editor and co-founder of Book Riot 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!  

Inventor of the Hashtag Interview starts at 12:30 and ends at 44:11 “Your pocket is now your garage, right. If one time you used to buy a car to sort of have in the garage to be like, ‘Wow. Look at this. I’m just going to go out and look at my baby.’ I think that in a similar way Apple thinks very similarly about computer products. And Amazon, meanwhile, is striking a much more ordinary context, like ‘Don’t think too hard about technology.’ But it should be there to enable your life to be easier, be simpler. ” News “Amazon’s stock price crosses $1,000 amid Wall Street love fest” by Ángel González at The Seattle Times - May 30, 2017 “The most bullish Amazon analyst on Wall Street thinks the stock will soar another 47% from here” by Akin Oyedele at Business Insider - May 10, 2016 Echo Look - $200 at Amazon.com Tech Tips “Now you can read your Kindle books in Virtual Reality” by Bufo Calvin at I Love My Kindle Interview with Chris Messina “Why Silicon Valley is all wrong about Amazon’s Echo Show” by Chris Messina at Medium - May 11, 2017 “Seeing Genius in Negative Space” by Chris Messina at Medium - May 19, 2015 “Introducing Echo Show” video at YouTube - May 9, 2017 Echo Show product page at Amazon Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Flickr “Groups for Twitter; or A Proposal for Twitter Tag Channels” by Chris Messina at FactoryJoe.com - August 25, 2007 Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2017 Steve Jobs in 1980 comparing computers to car models (YouTube) 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 Beneath a Scarlet Sky Interview starts at 3:32 and ends at 42:21 “Not only does the guy [Pino Lella] deserve to be noted for what he did, his story is the story of faith, and the ability to endure, and the ability to go on, and the ability to the best and the worst of life in life. And yet still understand that it’s a miracle every day. ” News Amazon Fresh delivery in Denver Tech Tips “Amazon’s Alexa Calling is Like a Jetsons Version of the Home Phone” by David Pogue (includes video) at Yahoo! Tech - May 19, 2017 Interview with Mark Sullivan Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel The Assisi Underground: The Priests Who Rescued Jews by Alexander Ramati (not available on Kindle) Valchiavenna Ski Area Alberto Ascari Con smania Content Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan (Audible) Guadacanal Diary and Invasion Diary, A Dramatic Firsthand Account of the Allied Invasion of Italy by Richard Tregaskis. The Liberation Trilogy by Rick Atkinson. 1. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy2. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (The Liberation Trilogy Book 2)*3. The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (The Liberation Trilogy Book 3)   Next Week’s Guest Chris Messina, author of “Why Silicon Valley is all wrong about Amazon’s Echo Show” 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!