The Kindle Chronicles

Bufo Calvin is the creator of the I Love My Kindle blog and The Measured Circle’s Geek Time Trip Interview starts at 9:49 and ends at 36:45  "If you want to watch 'Devil Girl from Mars' you can go and watch it on this site. What’s happening so far is that I’m having a great time with it. I’m adding stuff to it. Virtually no one else ever goes there. I kind of feel like I’m up in my attic, and I put all these things on the wall and that’s great and I’m sort of obsessed with the idea of that. But nobody is ever coming up the ladder into the attic at this point." News “Amazon Japan introduces ‘Manga Model’ Kindle Paperwhite with eight times more storage” at The Verge - October 18, 2016 Amazon press release in Japanese announcing “Manga Model” Kindle Paperwhite - October 18, 2016 Kindle Paperwhite "Amazon Music Unlimited” at The Lefsetz Newsletter - October 10, 2016 “Music Streaming Showdown: Amazon Music Unlimited vs. Spotify” by Alex Fitzpatrick at Time - October 18, 2016 “Apple lawsuit says 90 percent of ‘official’ chargers sold on Amazon are fake” by James Vincent at The Verge - October 20, 2016 “Amazon could be a lot bigger than we think” by Elizabeth Weise at USA Today - October 20, 2016   Interview with Bufo Calvin I Love My Kindle blog The Measured Circle’s Geek Time Trip at The History Project     TMCGTT links mentioned: H. P. Lovecraft, Devil Girl from Mars, Night of the Living Dead directed by George Romero, Piers Anthony, Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence, Strange Worlds comic debut on November 1, 1950, Batman radio show on September 5, 1950, Amazon Prime Reading Kindle Unlimited One Murder More by Kris Calvin   Content Ken Gunther’s list of free eBook sources: www.freebooksy.com has an amazing collection of free books. I am on their mailing list and every day get an email with links to free books available from Amazon. You can filter your list and only get notified about books available in your favorite genres (science fiction, legal thriller, etc)  www.bookbub.com - every day I get an email from the folks at Bookbub with a list of books available for free, 99 cents and $1.99. The above sites apparently carefully monitor amazon.com and when Amazon is having a free book promotion I get notified by email. I also use ebook.bike - This site used to be called TUEBL.ca which is an acronym for The Ultimate E-Book Library. You need to go to the web site and can search for the title or author you are interested in. You can download the books as Epub or text files and then use a tool like Calibre to convert them to azw files for the Kindle. You need to click on the download link and then "Download Epub" or "Download Text" to select the format you want. There are lots of other links on ebook.bike, I stay away from them. Calibre Amazon’s new “100 books for a lifetime of eating and drinking"   Next Week’s Guest: Robert Masello, author of The Jekyll Revelation 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! 

EVP and Publisher, Open Road Integrated Media Interview ‪starts at 15:33 and ends at 43:28 "We are not an agency publisher. So we don’t have any control over the consumer price. We set the digital list price, and we don’t have control over the consumer price. And Amazon is free to discount it to whatever price they want. And I would also point out that we are very aggressive in the number of and the frequency of which we promote our books in price promotions." News “Amazon Music Unlimited versus Prime Music: What’s the Difference?” by Jeff Gamet at The Mac Observer - October 12, 2016 Amazon press release on Music Unlimited service - October 12, 2016 “Amazon to Expand Grocery Business With New Convenience Stores” by Greg Bensinger and Laura Stevens at The Wall Street Journal - October 12, 2016 “If Amazon is really opening brick-and-mortar grocery stores, it’s a big deal” by Sarah Halzack at The Washington Post - October 11, 2016 Wall Street Journal Tech News Briefing podcast - October 13, 2016 Tech Tip “New! Collection management comes to MYCD (Manage Your Content and Devices)” by Bufo Calvin at I Love My Kindle - October 13, 2016 Interview with Tina Pohlman Open Road Integrated Media The Corfu Trilogy by Gerald Durrell: My Family and Other Animals (Book 1), Birds, Beasts, and Relatives (Book 2), and The Garden of the Gods (Book 3) The Durrells in Corfu Season 1 on PBS Masterpiece The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell Click here to sign up for the Open Road Early Bird Books email list Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street by John Brooks The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson with Afterword by David Foster Wallace Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) by Viet Thanh Nguyen Content “PBS’s ‘Durells in Corfu’ gets its glow from the Greek Island” by Matthew Gilbert at The Boston Globe - October 13, 2016 “‘The Durrells in Corfu’ Review: An Island of Charm” by John Anderson at The Wall Street Journal - October 13, 2016 Next Week’s Guest Bufo Calvin, creator of the I Love My Kindle 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! Please feel free to leave a review of my podcast at the iTunes Store. It will help spread the word to new listeners! 

Author of Find Your Own Voice  Interview ‪starts at 16:18 and ends at 42:39 "I don’t think books are going to evolve, because I think other things are there to take that slack up. And I think that’s okay. The one thing I can tell you is I have a lot of print books in my life, even though I read mostly digital now. Every time I have a print book I always want to be clicking a link or something. I always want to be grabbing some text and dropping it into Evernote. There are a lot of moments where the technology of paper is frustrating to me. And yet, I write on paper every day. I have a paper notebook beside me at all times every day, and I like getting a physical book. I have the new David Eggers, and it’s beautiful. It looks beautiful. It smells nice, and there’s nothing like that. I don’t know. I don’t think the future of books is as cool as we thought it might be. There’s no jet pack." News Up to $50 off Kindle eReaders - limited time offer for Prime members “Amazon Prime Reading gives members even more e-books” by Ben Fox Rubin at CNET - October 5, 2016 “Amazon introduces Prime Reading…and hits a sweet spot for many customers” by Bufo Calvin at I Love My Kindle “Amazon’s Alexa group is on a massive hiring spree” by Jason Del Rey at Recode - October 1, 2016 Tech Tip IFTTT recipes for Amazon Alexa Interview with Chris Brogan Find Your Writing Voice: How to write more like your amazing self, for books, blog posts, and email by Chris Brogan Essential Zen Habits by Leo Babauta Trust Agents and The Impact Equation, by Chris Brogan and Julian Smith Canva free book covers Pressbooks The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth: Entrepreneurship for Weirdos, Misfits, and Word Dominators by Chris Brogan (2014) Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini How to Live a Good Life by Jonathan Fields The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know by Shawn Coyne with introduction by Steven Pressfield Assassin’s Creed videogames Heroes of the Frontier by David Eggers Next Week’s Guest Tina Pohlman, executive vice president and publisher at Open Road Integrated Media, which is releasing The Corfu Trilogy by Gerald Durrell on October 11, 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! 

Senior Writer and Features Editor at Publishers Weekly Interview ‪starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05 "The fact that we have rapidly declining eBook sales from major publishers and that we see for two years running now in the Pew surveys that eBook readership is not growing is stunning, considering the vast offerings that are now available in digital format. I just hope that the publishers haven’t, if not killed then wounded their golden reader, which is a reader that will read on any device, and certainly the data show they will read print and eBooks, toggle from one to the other. They’ll buy more books, they’ll check out more books. I think as reading becomes more pressured by other media, to hold back your power readers like that can’t be considered a wise strategy any more."  News Amazon introduces all-new Fire TV Stick (press release) - September 28, 2016 “Amazon’s Fire TV Stick gets a smart upgrade to work with Alexa” by Amelia Heathman at Wired - September 29, 2016 All-new Fire TV stick at Amazon.com Fire TV Variety review of Woody Allen’s Amazon comedy “Crisis in Six Scenes” - September 29, 2016. “Crisis in Six Scenes” at Amazon Prime instant video “Introducing the Alexa Prize” (press release) September 29, 2016 Twitch Prime Guide  Tech Tip All-new Fire HD 8 Interview with Andrew Richard Albanese “Print or Digital, It’s Reading That Matters” by Andrew Richard Albanese at Publishers Weekly - September 16, 2016 “Book Reading 2016” Pew Research Center study - September 1, 2016 Author Earnings Wattpad The Frankfurt Book Fair October 1-23, 2016 Next Week’s Guest Chris Brogan, author of Finding Your Writing Voice: How to write more like your amazing self, for books, blog posts, and email 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 and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research  Interview ‪starts at 14:34 and ends at 44:17 "It’ll happen in the cloud, and it will get propagated out to eight, 10, 15, 20 million households that will have the more rudimentary voice enabled [Alexa device], and then suddenly it will become like magic. Suddenly that device, that Trojan horse that Amazon has gotten into your home, will suddenly unleash itself and become a truly intelligent agent. Is that a year away? At least, but we’re going to start having the feeling that there’s a real person there pretty soon. There are already people who feel that way today." News “Print or Digital, It’s Reading that Matters” by Andrew Richard Albanese at Publishers Weekly - September 16, 2016 BookRiot podcast Episode 174 - September 12, 2016 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz “Amazon isn’t just online—it’s opening a real bookstore in Dedham” by Curt Woodward at The Boston Globe - September 19, 2016 “Amazon Says It Puts Customers First. But Its Pricing Algorithm Doesn’t” by Julia Angwin and Surya Mattu at ProPublica - September 20, 2016 Amazon statement related to ProPublica story and statement issued after the story was published The New Yorker Radio Hour Episode 48 (Jeff Bezos reference ‪at 11:40) Transparent on Amazon Video Kindle for Kids bundle Interview with James McQuivey “Quick Take: Amazon Extends Its Lead By Taking Alexa Intelligent Agent Global” at Forrester - September 14, 2016 “Print or Digital, It’s Reading That Matters” By Andrew Richard Albanese at Publishers Weekly - September 16, 2016 All-New Echo Dot (2nd Generation)  Amazon Echo “I’ve Got a Rant in Me” - Episode 174 of the BookRiot podcast Content Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World by Deirdre N. McCloskey Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World by Deirdre N. McCloskey Blog Nation list of book review blogs Next Week’s Guest Andrew Richard Albanese, author of “Print or Digital, It’s Reading that Matters” at Publishers Weekly 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!    

Rowing medalist, challenged reader trying a Kindle Interview ‪starts ‪at 14:43 and ends at 42:48 I remember walking home from third grade and throwing a workbook away, it was a book that I had made out of paper and was keeping notes in. I threw it in the bushes, because my teacher said, “You’re supposed to take this home and get your parents to sign off on your assignments, that you’ve done them all.” I threw it away, and I said I’d lost it. because I didn’t want to show that I’d not done the reading, because I hated it so much. I just didn’t like it. I can do the reading; I just don’t like it. And I still have that feeling today.   News “Amazon Alexa, Echo, and the All-New Echo Dot Coming to the UK” - press release September 14, 2016 Amazon Echo - Wikipedia “The Best thing about Amazon’s $50 Echo Dot? It’s available to all” by Devindra Hardawar at Engadget - September 14, 2016 “Brief: The Future of Voice Control Goes Far Beyond Dictation” by James McQuivey with David M. Cooperstein, Alexandra Hayes at Forrester Research - April 14, 2014 “Alexa—turn on my local Heart radio station” by Roy Martin at Radio Today Industry News  “Amazon Books opens in San Diego” by Jennifer Van Grove at The San Diego Union-Tribune - September 14, 2016 Kobo Aura One “Amazon Prime tunes into Audible” by Ben Fox Rubin at CNET = September 13, 2016   Tech Tip More specs on the next generation Fire HD 8 tablet   Interview with John Biglow Craftsbury Sculling Center Mind over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing by Craig Lambert (published in September, 1999) The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel ‪James Brown Head of the Charles Regatta The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal by David Halberstam My Brilliant Friend by Elana Ferrante FULL audio books for everyone channel at YouTube Kindle Oasis OpenDyslexic font Kindle ($80) at Amazon.com My interview with Temple Grandin in TKC 196 - April 30, 2012      Video - Part 1      Video - Part 2 Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day by Craig Lambert  Craig Lambert on TKC 354 - May 2015   Comments Kindle Paperwhite handmade in India at Snapdeal, Flipkart and Shopclues Kindle Oasis skins at DecalGirl   Next Week’s Guest: James McQuivey, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research   Outro “Dock Talk: The Essence of Sculling” - my 360 YouTube video from Craftsbury Sculling Center   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 Substitute: Going to School With a Thousand Kids   Interview starts at 8:44 and ends at 41:26 The thing that really hit me was, this is compulsory. None of these kids have a choice. Whatever the cutoff age is, they have a choice, but all of those earlier years they cannot just decide, “I don’t want to go to school today” unless they had a very understanding set of parents or something. They have to go. And they have to get up really early. Often they’re on a bus for an hour, and then all day long they’re being told what to do. And some of what they’re learning, especially in elementary school, is very valuable—reading, for instance, and arithmetic—really, really valuable things to know on this planet. Other things are often really a waste of time. That feeling of its being both an incredibly long day and a day in which a lot of it feels kind of futile—it’s kind of a terrifying combination when you look at it from the kid’s point of view. (Photo by Elias Baker)   News Amazon announces an all-new Fire HD 8 for $90 with longer battery life, more storage, faster performance and Alexa Fire HD 8 press release - September 8, 2016 Interview with Nicholson Baker Nicholson Baker’s author page at Amazon.com Substitute: Going to School With a Thousand Kids by Nicholson Baker Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl Minecraft   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 Editor, ‪Amazon.com Books  Interview starts ‪at 17:14 and ends at 44:11 "I’ve heard it said that summer’s a great time for summer reading, but it’s also a great time to sit down with that one nonfiction book that you want to take the time to read. Maybe it’s transitioning a little bit, but fall is definitely the big time to sell books. That’s when everybody gears up and starts scheduling their huge books." News “Now Arriving on the New York Subway: Free E-Books, Timed for Your Commute” by James Barron at The New York Times - August 28, 2016 “Book Reading 2016” report by Pew Research Center - September 1, 2016 “No, the Internet Has Not Killed the Printed Book. Most People Still Prefer Them.” by Daniel Victor at The New York Times - September 2, 2016 “Pew: Print Books Still More Popular Than EBooks and Audiobooks” by Daniel Berkowitz at Digital Book World - September 1, 2016 “Visiting Wroclaw Amazon. Warehouse, work and work culture” by Robert Drozd - September 1, 2016 Kobo Aura One “New Omate Rise smartwatch comes with Amazon Alexa” by Edgar Cervantes at Android Authority - September 1, 2016 Omate Rise Smartwatch with Alexa at Indiegogo Tech Tip Moko Case for Kindle Oasis - $12.99 WizFun Case for Kindle Oasis - $9.99 Interview with Chris Schluep Amazon Author Pages for Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, and China Miéville The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Bobby Henderson Flying Spaghetti Monster Car Emblem Seconds: A Graphic Novel by Bryan Lee O'Malley Everything I Never Told You: A Novel by Celeste Ng The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen - available for pre-order with delivery ‪September 27, 2016 The Chemist by Stephenie Meyer - available for pre-order with delivery ‪November 8, 2016 Two by Two by Nicholas Sparks - available for pre-order with delivery ‪October 4, 2016 A Torch Against the Night and An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir  Here I Am: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer - available for pre-order with delivery ‪September 6, 2016 Moonglow: A Novel by Michael Chabon - available for pre-order with delivery ‪November 22, 2016 The Whistler by John Grisham - available for pre-order with delivery ‪October 25, 2016 Bloom County Episode XI: A New Hope by Berkeley Breathed - available for pre-order with delivery ‪September 13, 2016 Razor Girl: A Novel by Carl Hiaasen - available for pre-order with delivery ‪September 6, 2016 Crooked Kingdom: A Sequel to Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo - available for pre-order with delivery ‪September 27, 2016 Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Olympics by Daniel James Brown Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance Small Great Things: A Novel by Jodi Picoult - available for pre-order with delivery ‪October 11, 2016 Omnivoracious, The Amazon Book Review Next Week’s Guest Nicholson Baker, author of Substitute: Going to School With a Thousand Kids 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!  

Publisher of Open Letter Books  Interview starts at 15:15 and ends at 43:30 Amazon[Crossing] is filling in some of these gaps, because we haven’t for a long time seen the normal mystery book that someone picks up in Spain and reads when they go on their vacation. That’s never been translated into English, because it didn’t seem like it would make a ton of money for one of the big presses, and the small presses are looking for something that’s more patently literary. Amazon’s taken up a lot of those kind of books, which is really fascinating and fills in a wide range of what the aesthetic is in these different countries.    News “Amazon plans to open a Chicago bookstore in Lakeview” by Lauren Zumbach at The Chicago Tribune - August 25, 2016 Kindle Reading Fund Worldreader.org Amazon Worldreader video at YouTube - August 24, 2016 “Denver Public Library is Lending Wifi Hotspots” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - August 20, 2016 “Amazon Starts Car Research and Review Site” at Associated Press - August 25, 2016 Amazon press release on Amazon Vehicles - August 25, 2016 Amazon jobs listing for Sr. Product Mgr, US Books   Interview with Chad Post Open Letter Books, the University of Rochester’s nonprofit, literary translation press Amazon author page for Julio Cortazar Hopscotch: A Novel by Julio Cortazar Dalkey Archive Press Amazon author page for Raymond Queneau Quail Ridge Books Rage by Zygmunt Miloszewski The Complete Review and The Literary Saloon run by Michael Orthofer The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction by M. A. Orthofer Scott Esposito’s blog, Conversational Reading 2016 Best Translated Book Awards sponsored by the Amazon Literary Partnership AmazonCrossing books Nowhere to Be Found by Bae Suah, translated by Sora Kim-Russell Hugo House, a place for writers Words Without Borders The Lannan Foundation New Books by Open Letter:    Gesell Dome by Guillermo Saccomanno    A Greater Music by Bae Suah (to be released October 11, 2016)    Chronicle of the Murdered House by Lucio Cardoso (to be released December 13, 2016) Content “How to Read 50 Books a Year, in 7 Easy Steps” by Stephen Altrogge at Zapier - August 23, 2016   Next Week’s Guest Chris Schluep, senior editor at Amazon Books 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! 

BookRiot contributor who writes about romance novels  Interview starts at 10:59 and ends at 42:21 We’re sort of worshipping at the temple of love, the same way that religion can help us make sense of human experience and help us to feel there's good in the world—there's a structure that is bending towards the good. Romance can impart that feeling and help you feel like you're participating in the goodness of the fabric of the world. And I think that’s a real draw. News “Mysterious ‘Project X’ points to Amazon drive-up grocery store in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood” by Nat Levy and Todd Bishop at GeekWire - August 19, 2016. Amazon Fresh “Reinventing the Work-Life Ratio for Tech Talent” event scheduled by Amazon in Seattle for August 25. “Amazon experiments with tech teams consisting entirely of part-time employees, with full benefits” by Monica Nickelsburg at GeekWire - August 17, 2016 “Amazon Plans to Produce Virtual Reality Originals, Job Offer Reveals” by Janko Roettgers at Variety - August 18, 2016 Amazon Studios job listing for VR Experience Development Executive Next-generation Gear VR headset at Samsung   Tech Tip An item from Steve in Hawaii related to Kindle Owners Lending Library   Interview with Jessica Tripler “Why Romance Readers Love Digital Books” by Jessica Tripler at BookRiot - August 11, 2016 Practice Makes Perfect by Julie James Romance Writers of America A Natural History of the Romance Novel by Pamela Regis Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Novels by Molly O'Keefe The Bechdel Test Novels by Courtney Milan “Romancing the Data” presentation by AuthorEarnings analyst Data Guy at Romance Writers of America - July 15, 2016 Happily Ever After: the Romance Story in Popular Culture by Catherine M. Roach Novels by Nora Roberts Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James Novels by Beverly Jenkins Novels by Farrah Rochon   Content Goodreads All Time Favorite Romance Novels Practice Makes Perfect by Julie James   Next Week’s Guest Chad Post, head of the University of Rochester’s Open Letter press and a champion of literature in translation.   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!   My Instagram feed is here, with photos from our stay in Maine this summer.   Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.