The Kindle Chronicles

My Wife Darlene, Claire and a new quilt  Interview ‪starts at 12:28 and ends at44:58 "What’s great about Audible is you still get to hear a story. You’re not reading it, but you’re still getting a story. And for me sometimes when I get stuck on stuff in my studio, it’s just keeping me in the room long enough to get past it. And Audible does that." News “Alexa Devices Top Amazon Best-Seller List This Holiday - Millions of Alexa Devices Sold Worldwide” - press release December 27, 2016 “Amazon Has ‘Best Ever’ Holiday” at Forbes - December 27, 2016 “Not Everyone Shops on Amazon. Who Knew?” at WSJ What’s News podcast - December 30, 2016 “Amazon workers sleep in tents near firm’s Scottish depot to avoid travel costs” by Tom Mendelsohn at Ars Technica - December 12, 2016 “Here’s How Amazon is Flexing Its Muscle in Air Cargo” by Reuters at Fortune - December 23, 2016 “Amazon looks to the sky to store products” by Reuters at Yahoo Finance - December 29, 2016 “As We Leave More Digital Tracks, Amazon Echo Factors in Murder Investigation” at NPR - December 28, 2016 “Can Alexa help solve a murder? Police think so—but Amazon won’t give up her data.” by Amy B. Wang at The Washington Post - December 28, 2016   Interview with My Wife Darlene “Is the Kindle Oasis Really Worth It?” - My YouTube review of the Oasis featuring “The Wife Test,” Darlene’s first impressions - April 27, 2016 Audible Web page of Darlene’s quilting teacher, Susan Carlson Amazon Echo and Dot Pentatonix “These Ford Cars Will Soon Be Able to Talk to Amazon’s Alexa” by Reuters at Fortune.com - October 3, 2016 Spire breath tracker 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 Untold Story of the Talking Book Interview ‪starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05 “There’s often a false division between audiobook listeners and print book readers, because in my experience the two are almost always the same. They’re people like me who just love reading and want to do as much of it as possible, and audiobooks are a way to do that."  News Jeff Bezos interviewed by Walter Isaacson at The Aspen Institute (YouTube) - October, 2016  “There’s a great new way to reuse your old Amazon shipping boxes” by Kif Leswing at Business Insider - September 23, 2016 “Give Your Amazon Box New Life” at Amazon.com GiveBackBox.com Amazon Echo, Dot, and Tap “Amazon bets big on Las Vegas, rolling out nearly 5,000 Echo unites to hotel rooms” by Teena Maddox at TechRepublic - December 16, 2016 “Voice is the Next Big Platform, and Alexa Will Own It” by Jessi Hempel at Backchannel - December 19, 2016 Tech Tip Audible Channels available on Fire tablets Fire TV software updates Interview with Matthew Rubery The Untold Story of The Talking Book by Matthew Rubery Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX) “Audiobooks were set to destroy books—but instead, they opened a new world” by Kevin Canfield at The Washington Post - December 8, 2016 Content Link to free audible audiobook of Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime (US only) 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 Making Book blog  Interview ‪starts at 14:03 and ends at 44:31 "The idea that Barnes & Noble can make it by sort of becoming a small specialist, cozy bookstore is kind of delusional. It’s a big organization!" News Amazon Prime Air Jeff Bezos’s tweet announcing first Prime Air delivery - December 14, 2016 Jeremy Clarkson Prime Air video - November, 2015 Amazon White Papers on recommended drone access policy and revised air space model WSJ Tech News Briefing podcast on Prime Air  More coverage of Prime Air at Wired, BBC, PC Magazine, and ABC BBC http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38320067 Tech Tip To have Alexa play this podcast, say “Alexa, on Tune-in Radio, play The Kindle Chronicles podcast.” You might also try this: “Alexa, sing O Christmas Tree” “Amazon Fire TV Interface gets a makeover with new 5.2.4.0 firmware” by Alejandro at htpc Beginner - December 2, 2016 Software update 5.8.7 for Kindle Oasis Good deals on Kindle covers via TKC listener Marc:   Inateck Kindle Cases Starting from $6.59 + Free Shipping via Slickdeals Hot Deals Forum   Inateck Online via Amazon is discounting the following cases:   Kindle Paperwhite Microfibril PU Leather Case [amazon.com] code: KPCOFF40   Mint Green $6.59  Pink $7.19  Blue $7.19  Black $7.79   Kindle Paperwhite Premium PU Leather Case [amazon.com] Now $8.39 code: KPLOFF44   Brown Blue Red    Kindle Voyage Premium PU Leather Case [amazon.com] Now $7 code: KVLOFF56 Interview with Richard Hollick Making Book blog A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) by George R. R. Martin Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with More Ways) by Eliot Weinberger “Dylan’s Nobel” at Making Book - December 13, 2016 “Bob Dylan: The Music Travels, the Poetry Stays Home” by Tim Parks at The New York Review of Books - October 16, 2016 The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World by Brad Stone - available on Kindle at $15.99 for pre-order with delivery ‪January 31, 2017 “B&N’s Misunderstanding” at Making Book - November 16, 2016 Medium.com “Google Deletes Artist’s Blog: He Has No Backup, and Only Himself to Blame” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - July 14, 2016 Call Recorder for FaceTime Note on Last Week’s Bluehost outage Next Week’s Guest Matthew Rubery, author of The Untold Story of the Talking Book, published last month by Harvard University Press. Click here for the Audible version. 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 Pastor of New Covenant Church, Indianapolis Interview ‪starts at 7:20 and ends at 33:36 I think it’s a matter of accepting the change that God has provided with these tools, learning how to use the tools. For example, we could try to tell people, “Well, don’t go to the movies.” Well, they’re going to the movies. Teach them how to go to movies. With social media and all the rest, I believe we need to just focus on making it useful, making it fruitful, trying to remove distraction. In other words, let’s not throw it out because some people abuse it. Let’s be disciplined with it. Let’s have purpose for it. Let’s use it in a way that is productive. So I believe that rather than complain about it, let’s harness it like one may harness a wild horse. Break the horse, you know? Learn to ride it! Let’s ride this, and let’s make the best use of it. News AmazonGo introduction video - December 5, 2016 A look back - Amazon Unveils Futuristic Plan: Delivery by Drone at CBS - December 1, 2013 “Can You Buy a Grain of Salt at Amazon Go?” by Ryan Mac at Forbes - December 5, 2016 “Amazon Working on Several Grocery-Store Formats, Could Open More than 2,000 Locations” by Laura Stevens and Khadeeja Safdar at The Wall Street Journal (paywall)- December 5, 20126 “Amazon’s ‘Just Walk Out’ Technology Isn’t Revolutionary” (video) - James Corden on the Late Late Show December 7, 2016 “From Fire House to School Halls, Mark Bezos Advocates Volunteering” by Ryan Deffenbaugh at WAG Magazine - December 1, 2016 Mark Bezos’s TED talk - March 2011   Interview with Pastor Bryan Hudson Herron School of Art + Design  New Covenant Church’s 2016 Kenya Mission video Books by Bryan Hudson including Romans Road: Inspiration & Insights from the Book of Romans  Media consulting and production: http://visioncomsolutions.com New Covenant Church: http://www.newcovenant.org Vision Books and Media. My publishing company: http://www.visionbooksmedia.com Firm Foundation Conversations: http://www.firmfoundationtv.net Multimedia in Focus media camp: http://www.visionmultimedia.org Lightning Source by Ingram   Content Audible offers Invisible Man free till December 31 - a message from Audible founder Don Katz   Next Week’s Guest Richard Hollick, author of the Making Book blog 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! If you would like to read my posts at Medium on everything from grandchildren to old friends and lost laptops, you will find them at Medium.com/@lenedgerly . 

Head of Cynthia Manson Literary Agency Interview ‪starts at 14:30 and ends at 41:06 "The trick is that if you have an author that is struggling to find that audience, to find that readership--Alan [Russell] is a perfect example, because he always got wonderful reviews, is a fantastic writer, still has a great relationship with his former editor at St. Martins, but there was always a struggle to find that readership. Amazon [Publishing] was able to do that through their own algorithms and their own customized ways of doing e-mails and finding those readers. I do think it’s just a different technique. Probably authors like Lee Child wouldn’t necessarily benefit from that, because we know that Lee Child is a major bestseller with Random House. He knows who his readers are." News “Reducing Friction on Mobile,” a Manifesto 2016 talk by Kintan Brahmbhatt, Director of Prodcut & Program Management for Amazon Prime Music” (video) - April 8, 2016 “Amazon Plans Premium Alexa Speaker With Large Screen” by Mark Gurman at Bloomberg - November 29, 2016 “Amazon Wants Alexa to Take Control of Your Smart Home” by Greg Bensinger at The Wall Street Journal - May 17, 2016 “Alexa, Tell Me Where You’re Going Next” by Steven Levy at Backchannel - November 30, 2016 Amazon press release on holiday shopping weekend record - November 29, 2016 Tech Tip Check here for all Kindle and Fire software updates Software Update 5.8.7 for Kindle Oasis (8th Generation), Kindle (8th Generation), Kindle (7th Generation), Kindle Voyage (7th Generation), and Kindle Paperwhite (7th Generation), Paperwhite (6th Generation) “Kindles finally get all-text bold” by David Rothman at TeleRead - December 1, 2016 Interview with Cynthia Manson Sterling Lord  Books by Naomi Novik Kindle Direct Publishing Thomas & Mercer books at Amazon.com Arctic Fire by Stephen Frey Red Cell (3 Book Series) by Stephen Frey Books by Alan Russell Books by Robert Masello Content Aubrey/Maturin Novels (21 Book Series) by Patrick O’Brien, beginning with Master and Commander -  $199.27 on Kindle Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brien - $1.99 on Kindle Comments “Author Ian McEwan: ‘Very few novels earn their length’” by Keith Perry at The Telegraph - September 1, 2014 Next Week’s Guest Bryan Hudson, senior pastor of New Covenant Church in Indianapolis 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 Books Editor at Amazon.com Interview ‪starts at 12:41 and ends at 43:35 "[The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis] is one that I personally wanted to see as high on the list as possible. It’s a fictional story set in a post-apocalyptic world. It’s as if we’re living again in the Old West, so there’s vigilante justice, there are small pockets of people living in the wilderness. Searching for gold is kind of back in the day-to-day play, and people are heading north. This young girl, whose parents had taken off to go and search for gold themselves, is taken in by this man who she later finds out is not at all who she thinks he is. So she goes on the run from him in search of her parents. She has this amazing voice. We have been calling her a female Huckleberry Finn. It’s just that kind of a story and a narration where you just fall in love with her immediately. You want to keep reading and re-reading." News “What the Big 5’s Financial Reports Reveal About the State of Traditional Book Publishing” by Thad McIlroy at BookBusiness - August 5, 2016 “Publishing in the Pacific Northwest: Amazon Becomes a Publishing Force” by Anisse Gross at BookBusiness - November 18, 2016 “Amazon in Talks with Simon & Schuster - Acquisition?” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - July 15, 2016 “Amazon’s Next Frontier: Live Sports?” at WSJ Free For All Podcast with Jason Gay “Amazon has big plans to expand its online tickets business” by Jason Del Rey at ReCode - November 22, 2016 “ How Jeff Bezos Used ‘The New York Times’ Expose to Make Amazon Better” by Justin Bariso at Inc - November 16, 2016 Tech Tip “Control Neato’s robot vacuum with Amazon Alexa voice commands” by Sean Buckley at Engadget - November 22, 2016 Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet with improved keyboard entry - Black Friday sale price is $30 off at $60.   Interview with Seira Wilson Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them screenplay Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J. K. Rowling and Newt Scamander (Kindle pre-order, to be delivered on March 14, 2017) Amazon editors’ picks for Best Books of 2016 The Underground Railroad: A Novel by Colson Whitehead “Colson Whitehead Wins National Book Award for ‘The Underground Railroad’” by Alexandra Alter at The New York Times - November 17, 2016 The Wolf Road: A Novel by Beth Lewis Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance The Nix: A Novel by Nathan Hill Pumpkin Flowers: A Soldier’s Story by Matti Friedman Mincemeat: The Education of an Italian Chef by Leonardo Lucarelli The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis - available for pre-order with delivery on December 6, 2016 Comment From Mark in Oslo: “Man hacks Alexa into singing fish robot, terror ensues” at The Verge - November 4, 2016 Next Week’s Guest Cynthia Manson, New York literary agent 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.  

Deputy Editor, Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard  Interview ‪starts at 16:02 and ends at 40:51 "I think it’s become very clear that there’s going to be a devoted subset of people who do read on eReaders, and there’s going to be a lot more reading on phones." News “Amazon App for iPhone Now Has X-Ray Vision to See Inside Your Packages” by Andy Orin at Lifehacker - November 16, 2016 “Alexa, What Are Your Deals?” - Amazon press release on November 18, 2016 The Grand Tour one-day deal on Amazon Prime - November 18, 2018. “Amazon Starts Selling Certified Refurbished Kindle e-Readers” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E-Reader - November 15, 2016 Certified Refurbished items at Amazon.com “Amazon looks to clean house—literally” by Angel Gonzalez at The Seattle Times - November 7, 2016 “Jeff Bezos Invests Billions to Make Amazon a Top E-Commerce Player in India” by Newley Purnell at The Wall Street Journal - November 18, 2016 “Amazon is going to sell cars online” by Eugene Kim at Business Insider - November 18, 2016 New Amazon Prime TV commercial featuring a priest and an imam “Amazon TV ad features imam and vicar exchanging gifts” by Mark Sweney at The Guardian - November 15, 2016 “Jeff Bezos tweets his love for touching Amazon ad showing friendship between priest and imam” by Kurt Schlosser at GeekWire - November 17, 2016 Tech Tip Two mistakes to avoid with Amazon Prime Fresh Interview with Laura Hazard Owen Nieman Foundation at Harvard Nieman Journalism Lab The Nieman Fellowships Amazon Prime Reading Six months free of digital access to The Washington Post for Amazon Prime members New York Times podcasts New York Times The Daily 360 virtual reality news clips VR experience of solitary confinement by The Guardian I’ll Be Right Back Laura Hazard Owen’s parenting newsletter Publishing Trends “Why We Are Buying PaidContent” by Om Malik - February 8, 2012 Om Malik on Leo Laporte’s This Week in Tech - November 8, 2015 Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids by Nicholson Baker Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance Content Amazon editors pick The Best Books of 2016 “Amazon rolls out Rapids, a chat style reading app for kids” by Sarah Buhr at Techcrunch - November 2, 1016 Amazon Rapids Next Week’s Guest Seira Wilson, senior books editor at Amazon.com 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! 

Captain of Sea Dragon, Author of Loss at Sea: A Solo Circumnavigation Interview ‪starts at 13:19 and ends at 36:18 "It’s less difficult than it will seem at times. There will be hard points, but as long as you can power through those or endure through those, you just have to keep going." News “Donald Trump threatens Amazon as payback for Washington Post articles he doesn’t like” by Matthew Yglesias at Vox - May 13, 2016 “The Donald, documented: The Washington Post open-sources much of its Trump reporting” by Joshua Benton at Nieman Lab - August 30, 2016 Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power by Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher “Amazon’s Stock May Be Suffering from the Trump Effect” by Jaewon Kang at The Street - November 10, 2016 “Amazon Announces Black Friday Deals on Echo, Fire Tablets, Kindle Paperwhite and Fire TV Stick” by David Carnoy at CNET - November 10, 2016 “Amazon to Reimburse Customers for In-App Purchases by Kids, Judge Says” by the Associated Press at The Wall Street Journal -  November 10, 2016 (Behind paywall; try copying the headline and pasting it into a Google search to see full story.) Interview with Eric Loss Pangaea Exploration Sea Dragon The Long Way by Bernard Moitessier Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery Loss at Sea: A Solo Circumnavigation by Eric Loss Sweetland: A Novel by Michael Crummey Content “Amazon Prime Reading Comes to the US Kindle App” at MacStories - November 9, 2016 Next Week’s Guest Laura Hazard Owen, deputy editor at Nieman Lab 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 Team at Earplay  Interview ‪starts at 10:28 and ends at 44:37  Left to right: Dave Grossman, Chief Creative Officer; Bruno Batarelo, Chief Technology Officer; and Jonathan Myers, Chief Executive Officer   News Charlie Rose interview of Jeff Bezos (video) - October 27, 2016   Interview with Jonathan Myers Earplay site Western Dramatic Literature: A Micro-Anthology by Jonathan Myers & Jennifer Bean Codename Cygnus Blackstone audiobooks Audible Codename Cygnus Kickstarter campaign "Virtual Worlds Invite Visitors Into the Story" by Chris Suellentrop at The New York Times - November 23, 2014 “Earplay: An Interactive, Audio-Only Storyteller, Made Even Better by Alexa” by Zoey Collier at Amazon’s developer site - November 3, 2016 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 Jekyll Revelation published by Amazon Publishing’s 47North Imprint   Interview ‪starts at 10:00 and ends at 43:22 "I used to joke around that I could walk up to a table at any bookstore, and any book that wasn’t published by the major houses—I could smell it a mile away. There was something wrong about the typography. The cover was somehow cheap looking. I didn’t feel quite right. The margins weren’t right when you looked at the text inside, that sort of thing. They have corrected that now. And The Jekyll Revelation, which they just recently sent me a box of is an absolutely beautiful book that I am proud to put on my shelves. The cover art is spectacular. It wraps around from the front all the way to the back. It’s indistinguishable from anybody else’s books. In fact, in many ways its better."   News Earplay skill on Alexa “Earplay: Alexa Hosts a Transformative New Way to Tell Stories” by Len Edgerly at Medium - October 28, 2016 Earplay website Eastgate Systems, creator of the Storyspace hypertext tool   Tech Tip Prime Photos   Interview with Robert Masello The Jekyll Revelation by Robert Masello The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Dracula by Bram Stoker Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley The Romanov Cross: A Novel by Robert Masello The Medusa Amulet: A Novel of Suspense and Adventure by Robert Masello Blood and Ice by Robert Masello   Content New York Times 2016 Bestseller List at the Kindle Store   Next Week’s Guest Jonathan Myers, co-founder and chief executive officer of Earplay. A tool for sharing Kindle Chronicles episodes: Overcast.fm 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!