The Kindle Chronicles

Author of Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert Interview starts at 10:27 and ends at 41:38 “Billie Jean King is very aware of my Ripper book, and we talked about it when I began all this investigation in 2001, because Billie Jean had been a friend of mine for many years. We talked about this, and she said, ‘You need to talk to the people at Amazon about this, because this is a really unusual project.’” (Photo Credit: Ecclesine) News Author Earnings report for February 2017 “Amazon could hammer the final nail into the iPad’s coffin” by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes at ZDENet -n March 6, 2017 Interview with Patricia Cornwell Patricia Cornwell’s books at Amazon.com Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert by Patricia Cornwell Next Week’s Show Interviews and new ideas from South By Southwest Interactive in Austin. Click here for a link to the events I have favorited and may attend. 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 Kutherian Gambit series Interview starts at 10:15 and ends at 43:51 "When I originally put out Book 1 I had no idea if anyone cared about my stories. I didn’t want to invest a lot of time, money, and effort if nobody wanted to read it." News “Site of Amazon’s Cloud glitch made it especially disruptive” by Angel Gonzalez at The Seattle Times - February 28, 2017 “The embarrassing reason behind Amazon’s huge cloud computing outage this week” by Brian Fung at The Washington Post - March 2, 2017 “Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region” - Amazon Web Services statement “Amazon Cloud Snafu Snarls Web Traffic” at WSJ What’s News podcast - March 1, 2017 “Amazon Unveils First East Coast Bricks and Mortar” by Alex Green at Publishers Weekly - February 28, 2017 “Amazon plans to release new Alexa devices that can make phone calls and work as intercoms” by Jason Del Rey at Recode - March 3, 2017 Tech Tip Lazy-Hands grip for tablet and e-readers Interview with Michael Anderle The Kutherian Gambit series by Michael Anderle Stephen Campbell’s interviews with Michael Anderle at The Author Biz on November 15, 2016 and January 25, 2016 Trader’s Tales from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper series by Nathan Lowell Her Royal Runner (The Courier Chronicles Book 0) by Joey Anderle Next Week’s Guest Patricia Cornwell, author of Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert 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 Four Seasons of Reno Hart and Creator of The Author Biz podcast Interview starts at 10:33 and ends at 42:30 "The power of Amazon Publishing--if you’ve written a good book and the people at Amazon support the book--there are so many levers and knobs that they can turn to put it in front of the people who will like it. It is astonishing. There’s nothing like it." News Amazon discount to celebrate Harris Poll ranking - press release on February 22, 2017 “With Amazon Books, Jeff Bezos Is Solving Digital Retail’s Biggest Design Flaw” by Noah Robischon at Fast Company - February 13, 2017 “9 Statistics Writers Should Know About Amazon” by Jane Friedman at JaneFriedman.com - February 16, 2017 Tech Tip Wool Omnibus Edition (Wool 1-5) by Hugh Howie with Kindle in Motion update Interview with Stephen Campbell The Author Biz website and podcast Four Seasons of Reno Hart by Stephen R. Campbell The Hardy Boys Starter Set (5 Volumes) by Franklin W. Dixon Cozy Mysteries (new releases in 2016) at Amazon.com Mysteries by Agatha Christie The Taylor Stevens Show podcast Books by Taylor Stevens Books by Paul Levine Mysteries by Harry Bingham (99-cent sale ends February 24, 2017) Books by Barbara Nickless, and her website The World’s Best Cat Litter Content Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert [Kindle in Motion] by Patricia Cornwell “Jack the Ripper: Patricia Cornwell ‘Proves’ Walter Sickert Was the Killer in Second Book” by Sara C Nelson at Huffington Post - February 21, 2017 Next Week’s Guest Michael Anderle, author of The Kurtherian Gambit series Outro My talented niece Fran Betlyon sings my father’s favorite song on his 90th birthday on February 18. 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!

Technology Reporter at Observer.com Interview starts at 10:30 and ends at 42:19 "That’s why I call this whole printed book thing fetishism. What’s more important? Is literature and writing important or is this object more important? I think literature is more important, and writing is important. I don’t really care how people read it. I just really want to push back on this idea that there’s something sad that we’ve lost because print books are fading, when what I care about is not print or first editions. I care about people reading and the act of writing and that creative work." News “Amazon Alexa Voice Service Coming to DTS Play-Fi” - September 28, 2017 “Why Amazon is the World’s Most Innovative Company of 2017” by Noah Robischon at Fast Company - February 13, 2017 “Amazon.com Takes Aim at Victoria’s Secret With Its Own $10 Bras” by Khadeeja Safdar and Laura Stevens at The Wall Street Journal - February 10, 2017 “AWS Announces Amazon Chime” - press release February 14, 2017 Amazon Chime Tech Tip “Owners of first and second generation Kindles can’t register them” by Andrew Liptak at The Verge - February 11, 2017 “Amazon Tap’s new hands-free Alexa update means it’s actually useful” by Lauren Goode at The Verge - February 9, 2017 Interview with Brady Dale “Despite What You Heard, The E-Book Market Never Stopped Growing” by Brady Dale at Observer.com - January 18, 2017 “Titans of Kindle” series by Brady Dale Podiobooks “How to reach me secretly and securely” by Brady Dale at Medium - February 12, 2017 Google Authenticator Mailbox.org Sync.com ProtonMail “On Twitter, Users Shouldn’t Need a Name” by Brady Dale at Observer.com - February 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!

Historian at the Sanibel Public Library Interview starts at 3:01 and ends at 34:30 [On Anne Morrow Lindbergh:] “Going up and learning how to fly--I mean, in that era was pretty impressive. I’m kind of struck by the fact that a lot of times when we look back and say ‘Gee, in the 50s it was kind of daring of a woman to do that.” It may have been as a wide generality, but there have always been daring women. You can go back to Cleopatra, and there’s plenty of them around.” News “Amazon hunts for London shops” by Aimee Donnellan and Simon Duke at The Sunday Times - February 5, 2017 Tech Tip “Amazon’s Tap Speaker gets a hands-free update in defiance of its name” by Brian Heater at TechCrunch - February 9, 2017 Interview with Betty Anholt Sanibel Public Library Sanibel’s Story: Voices and Images from Calusa to Incorporation by Betty Anholt Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum Poetry by Anne Morrow Lindbergh Listen! The Wind by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, winner of the 1939 National Book Award N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge Sanibel Island Light House Next Week’s Guest Brady Dale, of Observer.com, author of “Despite What You Heard, the E-Book Market Never Stopped Growing” on January 18, 2017 Outro The Author Biz hosted by Stephen Campbell 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.

President of The Future of Publishing Interview starts at 8:19 and ends at 44:04 "I’m convinced that if you want to retain your job in publishing moving forward, unless you’re demonstrably technology adept, you’re going to lose your job. Yeah, there’s room for 100 amazing editors who can’t even use a computer, but that’s not the run-of-the-mill worker in publishing today. They need to be imbued with a knowledge of technology." News Amazon’s earnings (Forbes) - February 2, 2017 Amazon press release on earnings Walmart going after Amazon Prime (Recode) - January 31, 2017 David Frum in The Atlantic’s March issue   Jeff Bezos statement on immigration executive order Give Trump a Chance debate Interview with Thad McIlroy The Future of Publishing website “An Authoritative Look at Book Publishing Startups” by Thad McIlroy Shelfie “Shelfie Closes” by Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly - January 31, 2017 John LeCarré: The Biography by Adam Sisman BookBub PerfectIt The Bestseller Code by Jodi Archer and Matthew L. Jockers “Leisure time on an average day” - chart from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Data Guy’s presentation at 2017 Digital Book World Next Week’s Guest Betty Anholt, historian at the Sanibel Public Library For Updates on our Florida Sojourn: Click here for my essays on Medium  Click here for my Instagram photos 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-Authors of Evelyn’s Lighthouse Interview starts at 14:58 and ends at 44:35 Patience: "It was really meant to inspire other younger girls or the readers to read more, because I’ve always loved reading, and Evelyn loves reading. We really hope that it causes others to want to read just as much as Evelyn does." News Author Earnings Book stats presented at Digital Book World “Despite What You Heard, The E-Book Market Never Stopped Growing” by Brady Dale at Obvserver.com Amazon movie nominated for Best Picture Oscar “Amazon to close Kindle ‘Write On’ author community, pulling the plug on story lab” by Todd Bishop at GeekWire - January 26, 2017 Tech Tip Knotes Kindle clippings manager Interview with Patience Clevenger and Mark Roberts Evelyn’s Lighthouse by Patience Clevenger and Mark Roberts Split Rock Lighthouse American Girl dolls and books Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery The Black Stallion by Walter Farley Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen United States Lighthouse Society Out of My Mind by Karen M. Draper Wonder by R. J. Palacio Mark Roberts’s interview of me in March, 2013 My interview of Mark Roberts in January, 2014 Resources Mark Roberts used for Evelyn’s Lighthouse: cover by Rick Holland, Kindle formatting by Rachel Greene Next Week’s Show Darlene, her sister Deb and I will head to Sanibel Island next, so you will probably be hearing the sounds of wildlife and quiet days looking for shells next week. Happy reading! 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! You can follow along on  our Florida sojourn via my travel essays at Medium and photos at Instagram. I am also posting the occasional 360 video at Periscope. Enjoy!

Our supper aboard the Silver Meteor en route to Kissimmee, Florida News “How Netflix Lost Big to Amazon in India” by Abhishek Madhaven at Backchannel - January 12, 2017 Tech Tip “Is Amazon’s Newest 5% Credit Card Worth the Hype?” by Nick Clements at Forbes - January 13, 2017 Interview with Kindle Owner Robert Millonig (Starts at 17:51 and ends at 27:35) The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauf   Next Week’s Guests Mark Roberts and Patience Clevenger, co-authors of Eveylyn’s Lighthouse 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 Open Road Integrated Media Interview starts at 14:22 and ends at 41:41   Links for Interview with Paul Slavin: Open Road Integrated Media website Paul Slavin’s 2016 year-end letter to employees Early Bird Books newsletter BookBub BookGorilla Upstairs at the White House by J. B. West Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T. J. Stiles The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself by Sean Carroll Selected Poems of Ezra Pound   Next Week’s Show I plan to record the next TKC episode aboard Amtrak’s Silver Meteor from Penn Station in New York City to Kissimmee, Florida. If I am able to upload 360 videos from the train you will see them at Periscope.tv/lenedgerly. 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 Books for Living Interview starts at 19:07 and ends at 43:15 "One of the reasons I come back to Lin Yutang is a marvelous story he tells, in 1937, about being in the most famous tea house in China. And the tourists there are so busy taking photographs of themselves drinking tea that they don’t enjoy the tea. And I thought to myself, ‘We blame too much on the machines.’ Constant connectivity is our fault. It’s not the fault of the little items we hold in our hands. And it’s been a problem—distraction and impatience have been with us since the dawn of time. So my first thing is to blame myself and not the machine. News “How Alexa Won CES” (video) by Geoffrey A. Fowler at The Wall Street Journal - January 6, 2017 “Amazon’s Alexa is everywhere at CES 2017” by Jacob Kastrenakes at The Verge - January 6, 2017 LG press release on Smart Instaview refrigerator - January 4, 2017 “Mattel’s $300 Echo clone will read your children bedtime stories” by James Vincent at The Verge - January 3, 2017 “Lynx Robot is Alexa’s best disguise at CES 2017” by Andrew Gebhart at CNET - January 5, 2017 “Get Ready, Your Robotic Roomate is Moving in” by Aki Ito at Bloomberg - January 6, 2016 “Murder Suspect’s Amazon Echo device could help solve the case” by Chris Graham at The Telegraph - December 28, 2016 “Bentonville PD Says Man Strangled, Drowned Former Georgia Officer” at 5News - February 23, 2016 “Police ask: “Alexa, did you witness a murder?” by Sean Gallagher at Ars Technica - December 28, 2016 Bentonville Police search warrants in Bates case Amazon Books page at Amazon.com Tech Tip ereaderiq.com Interview with Will Schwalbe Books for Living by Will Schwalbe “The Need to Read” by Will Schwalbe at The Wall Street Journal - November 25, 2016 (Behind a paywall; try Googling “The Need to Read by Will Schwalbe”) Wonder by R. J. Palacio The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang “Cabdriver’s Book Club” by Ryder Ziebarth at The New York Times - March 11, 2013 The Golden Age: A Novel by Joan London Three Lives & Company bookstore in New York City Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine by Jane E. Smith (not available on Kindle) Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo “Lessons on How to Live, in 26 Books” by A. J. Jacobs at The New York Times - December 23, 2016 Next Week’s Guest Paul Slavin, CEO of Open Road Integrated Media 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!