The Kindle Chronicles

CEO of Tapas Media   Interview starts at 19:22 and ends at 43:40   I believe that for publishing, even though Kindle is capturing a lot of the mobile market, I think there are still innovations to be made. In terms of marketplace players out there who have fundamentally thought about the whole thing from mobile specifically, I don’t think there’s a lot yet.    News Walt Mossberg interviews Jeff Bezos at Recode’s Code Conference 2016 (full video and a separate audio link) - May 31, 2016 “Amazon’s $290 e-reader misfire: A hands-on review of the new Kindle Oasis” by Michael Hiltzik at The Los Angeles Times - May 31, 2016 Fire HD 10 tablet - now available in Silver Aluminum and 64 GB models   Interview with Chang Kim Tapastic Tapas Media Crunchbase listing Tapas App on iOS and Android Candy Crush Clash of Clans Game of War   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 Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.    Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Audio recorded at BookExpo America in Chicago and related links: Jon Malinowski (2:00-4:25), president of The Combined Book Exhibit, creator of the Book Fair Buddy app on iOS and Android platforms.      Pubmatch.com “Authorship in the Digital Age” panel moderated by Jon Fine (14:24-21:13), former Director of Author and Publishing Relations at Amazon “At Chicago’s BEA-Lite: A Meaningful Discussion on Publishers and Authors” by Porter Anderson at Publishing Perspectives - May 13, 2016 Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow (10:17-12:46)    Barbara Freethy (8:40-10:00)   A. Konrath(12:55-13:57).    Scott Turow interview (21:24-31:02)     “BookExpo America panel: Digital Authorship” by Chris Meadows at TeleRead - May 12, 2016     “Scott Turow: Amazon uses ‘unfair tactics’ in e-book market” by Shoshana Davis at CBS News - October 16, 2013     A Taste of Generation Yum: How the Millennial Generation’s Love for Organic Fare, Celebrity Chefs and Microbrews Will Make or Break the Future of Food by Eve Turow     “Why Are Millennials So Obsessed With Food?” by Joe Pinsker at The Atlantic - August 14, 2015 Morgan Entrekin (34:15-41:40), president and publisher, Grove Atlantic “Amazon: Business as Usual?” forum at New York Public Library in 2014 with Morgan Entrekin as one of the panelists (video) 6.Morgan Entrekin, president and publisher, Grove Atlantic Donald J. Trump? (43:36 - 44:58) Trump’s America: The Complete Loser’s Guide by Scott Dikers, founding editor of The Onion   Next Week’s Guest: Chang Kim, CEO at Tapastic, creator of the Tapas app for iOS and Android   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 Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.    Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Jeff Bezos: We need to take The Washington Post from being a great local paper, which was a very successful strategy for decades, and transform it into a great national and global paper. We have the capability to do that, and as we do that we’re going to change the revenue structure. We’ve historically made a relatively large amount of money per reader on a relatively small number of readers. We need instead to make a relatively small amount of money per reader on a much larger number of readers. If you are studying the news business, the Internet has been a disaster for traditional news companies for the most part, because it takes a lot of things away. There are a lot of anti-gifts the Internet brought to the traditional news business. But it does bring one huge gift. You have to maximize your usage of that new gift, which is that it provides almost free global distribution. We could have hundreds of millions of readers and make very little money and have an amazing institution. And I’m happy to fund that until we get there.   Note: For this week’s show, I am bringing you extensive excerpts from a Jeff Bezos interview conducted by Martin Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post, on May 18, 2016 at an event named Transformers. I have interspersed the clips with my comments on the interview, which I thought was extremely well done and revealing.  Here are some links to coverage of the interview.   “‘Not an appropriate way for a presidential candidate to behave’: Bezos fires back at Donald Trump” by Paul Farhi at The Washington Post - May 18, 2016   Next Week Show Interviews and observations from Book Expo America in Chicago   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 Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.    Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Accessibility Architect at Amazon’s Lab126   Interview starts at 9:45 and ends at 39:50   We continually evaluate ways we can make reading on the Kindle more enjoyable, more comfortable, more accessible. This led us to create the Bookerly font. This led us to include the open-source OpenDyslexic font. So we continue to evaluate and bring innovations to our customers.      News “Amazon borrows from YouTube script, opens marketplace to video creators” by Angel Gonzalez at The Seattle Times - May 10, 2016 “Google’s Answer to Amazon’s Echo is code-named ‘Chirp’ and is landing soon” by Marg Bergen at The Verge - May 11, 2016 “Forget Amazon’s Echo: Lexi lets you speak to Alexa through your phone” by MIX at TheNextWeb - May 6, 2016 “Move Over Lexi - Roger Puts Amazon Alexa in Your iPhone for Free” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - May 12, 2016 Free Roger app for iOS “Goodreads launches free e-book giveaway promotions for $119 fee” by Chris Meadows at TeleRead - May 6, 2016   Tech Tip Audible’s new Send This Book feature Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (Audible) - email me at PodChronicles AT gmail DOT com if you’d like me to send you a free copy of this audiobook, using Audible’s new Send This Book Book Feature   Interview with Peter Korn Amazon’s guide to VoiceView Kindle Paperwhite blind and visually impaired readers bundle My Coverage of VoiceView at TeleRead and The Kindle Chronicles - May 10, 2016   Content Trump’s America: The Complete Loser’s Guide by Scott Dikkers   Next Week’s Show Interviews and observations from Book Expo America in Chicago My BEA Liveblog posts on Goodreads author tips and Rethinking the Standard Author Contract   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 Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.    Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Author, Poet and Associate Editor of TeleRead   Interview starts at 22:08 and ends at 43:10   This [Kindle Oasis] basically gives Amazon its BMW or its Mercedes Benz, which is a pretty powerful draw for the entire range. It has produced a very fine, high-end E Ink eBook reader which caters very well to really serious readers.   News Amazon’s First Quarter earnings report - April 28, 2016 Motley Fool Money podcast on Amazon earnings - April 29, 2016 (Thanks to David Enzel for the link) "Amazon was profitable for four quarters in a row" by Jason Del Rey at re/code - April 28, 2016 “Jeff Bezos Sells $671 Million of Amazon Stock in Biggest Sale Ever” by Aaron Pressman at Forune.com - May 6, 2016 “Jeff Bezos to personally match up to $1M in donations to Mary’s Place homeless nonprofit” by Todd Bishop at GeekWire - May 2, 2016 “Mary’s Place receives $2 million thanks to matching donations from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos” by John Knicely at KIRO7 - May 4, 2016 Mary’s Place link for Amazon wish list “Video: Jeff Bezos at the White House promotes plan to hire 25,000 veterans and military spouses at Amazon” by Kurt Schlosser at GeekWire - May 5, 2016 Joining Forces web site   Tech Tip How I am using Amazon Tap   Interview with Paul St John Mackintosh Amazon Author’s Page and Facebook page Project Gutenberg The Musical Box of Wonders by Paul St John Mackintosh (paperback only) published by H. Harksen Producitons Following is the complete text of the poem recited by Paul St John Mackintosh at the end of the interview:      Mackintoshes   I’m writing this to tell my baby daughter —who took my pen to chew just now—about her rambunctious forebears, Papists or Dissenters, before they were Glasgow artists or inventors: nine hundred years of sanguinary glories, blood-fuelled vendettas, feuding feudatories, feral mosstroopers, breekless in the heather, sleeping out plaid-wrapped through all Highland weather; conveniently detained during Flodden, second at Bannockburn, first at Culloden; Jacobite malcontents, staunch in lost causes, schooled by reverses and misfortune’s tawses; clan wildcat totem for crest and supporters, red lion, boar’s head, heart in hand, ship quarters; proud bearings passed through gentleman and peasant, from those ancestral mountains to the present ludicrous days of raincoats and galoshes: ferocious, feckless, fearless Mackintoshes.   Next Week’s Guest Peter Korn, accessibility architect at 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 Persepctive" 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 12:00 and ends at 44:01   I’ve got to write this down in a way that helps people understand how this cycle works, where technology comes in and allows us to render scarcity irrelevant. And then what’s the business strategy to do this? And that’s where I point to people like Uber, Airbnb, Amazon—who are in the habit of saying, “How could we give people more for less?” Which is not the way traditional business was operating.   News Kindle Oasis at Amazon.com Check out $20 off deals on Kindle, Kindle for Kids Bundle, and Kindle Paperwhite! (Not sure how long they will last.) My 17-minute video review of Kindle Oasis, featuring Darlene’s comments in her quilting studio - April 27, 2016 Fintie Oasis cover story by Chris Meadows at TeleRead “Amazon in Talks to Create Virtual Reality Content” by Joan E. Solsman at The Wrap - April 26, 2016 “Amazon Studios May be gearing up to make its own original VR content” by Bryan Bishop at The Verge - April 26, 2016 Ricoh Theta M15 360 Degree camera Samsung Gear VR headset (requires Samsung smartphone) 360 YouTube video of Susan Carlson’s quilting class - April 25, 2016  “Susan Carlson: Quilting in the Key of Life” at lenedgerly.com - April 27, 2016 Samsung’s Gear 360 camera “Easier Reading? My $280 Oasis without bold or my 2013 Paperwhite with an all-bold file? See for yourself” by David Rothman at TeleRead - April 28, 2016   Interview with James McQuivey “Brief: Digital Winners Know That More is More” by James McQuivey with Oliwia Berdak, Michelle MOorehead, Anna Berman, and Diane Lynch (one-paragraph summary; full report costs $349)   Next Week’s Guest Paul St John Mackintosh, associate editor of TeleRead   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 Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.    Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Assistant Professor at AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow Poland   Interview starts at 20:15 and ends at 43:40   On the Kindle Oasis: "I remember the first eBook readers that were available in Poland cost about that much as well, seven to eight years ago. It’s quite a steep price, and I’ve read comments on Polish web sites that indeed it’s very expensive. I also think that it’s something that you first need to probably experience when you’ve had it in your hands, and I think that’s when you can really say if it’s worth the price."   News Kindle Oasis: Unlike Any Kindle You’ve Ever Held (If you order with this link, it will support the podcast with Amazon Associates commissions—thank you!) “When will your Kindle Oasis e-reader arrive? MAYBE not until September. My sympathy, Merlot fans” by David Rothman at TeleRead - April 21, 2016 This Week in Tech 558 with Leo Laporte & Friends - April 17, 2016 “Estimating Kindle E-Book Sales for Amazon” by Trefis Team at Forbes - April 2, 2016 “Dance With the One That Brought You” by Shania Twain (YouTube)       Lyrics at Google Play “Gold-plated $290 Amazon Kindle Oasis: Less screen contrast than $120 Paperwhite” by David Rothman at Teleread - April 15, 2016 “The Kindle Oasis: Amazon’s breakthrough in snark generation” by Bufo Calvin at I Love My Kindle -  “With Seattle Shelter Effort, Amazon Shows Glimmers of a ‘Good Neighbor’” by Kirk Johnson at The New York Times - April 21, 2016.  (Click here to donate items to Mary’s Place that will be shipped directly to the homeless shelter set up by Amazon near its new corporate offices in Seattle.) “Amazon Wins $30 Million Deal to Sell E-Books in NYC Schools” by Hilary Brueck at Fortune - April 21, 2016 “Challenge to Google Books is Declined by Supreme Court” by Adam Liptak and Alexandra Alter at The New York Times - April 18, 2016 Google Books   Interview with Szymon Szott Simon’s Linkedin profile AGH University of Science and Technology website “Amazon Gets Into Voice Recognition, Buys Ivona Software to Compete Against Siri” by Ingrid Lunden at TechCrunch - January 24, 2013 Ivona - try all the voices! VoicePIN voice recognition (biometrics) developed by a colleague of Szymon Szott at AGH Szymon Szott at ResearchGate, a social network for researchers Szymon’s Google Scholar profile “SDN@home: A Method for Controlling Future Wireless Home Networks” co-authored by Szymon Szott at IEEE Communications Magazine, the flagship magazine of the IEEE Communications Society - to be published in May, 2016 “Discouraging Traffic Remapping Attacks in Local Ad Hoc Networks” by Jerzy Konorski and Szymon Szott - July 2014 world Readers blog by Robert Drozd - "All readers of e-books, electronic books and the Kindle in Poland" “Polish view of Kindle Oasis” at TeleRead - April 22, 2016     Content   Poland: A History by Adam Zamoyski Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Henryk Sienkiewicz Poems New and Collected by Wislawa Szymborska The Last Wish: Introducing the Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski The Old Axolotl: Hardware Dreams by Jacek Dukaj Winter Men by Jesper Bugge Kold   Next Week’s Guest James McQuivey, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research   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 Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.    Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Featuring Neil Lindsay, Amazon VP Devices and Chris Green, Amazon Lab 126 VP Industrial Design   This special episode of The Kindle Chronicles is all about the new Kindle Oasis, based on an embargoed preview of the device that I attended in New York City on April 7, 2016. The episode is divided into the following four parts: Meet the Oasis - product specs and first impressions. 2:14 to 8:4   (Note: In answer to Faith Eldridge's question, it turns out the Oasis does not have an adaptive light sensor. If that is an important capability, you may want to stick with the Kindle Voyage, which does have one.) Live from New York: It’s the Kindle Oasis briefing! 8:47 to 28:37 Will Oasis be a Success? My thoughts. 28:40 to 32:06 What’s next for the Kindle? 32:10 to 36:20 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 Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.    Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Author of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity   Interview starts at 28:24 and ends at 42:21   The people who are throwing rocks at the Google bus, they’re on to something. The understand something. We should listen. And we can reconfigure, we can optimize, reprogram our economy to help everybody—That’s extremely optimistic. I put myself on the hopeful side of the equation right now.    Intro Elon Musk unveils Tesla Model 3 (YouTube) - March 31, 2016   News “Amazon Takes on PayPal with New Payments Program” at Fortune - April 4, 2016 “Was Horace and Pete” even Television?” by Ian Crouch at The New Yorker - April 6, 2016 “The next hot job in Silicon Valley is for poets” by Elizabeth Dwoskin at The Washington Post - April 7, 2016 “The inside story of how Amazon created Echo, the next billion-dollar business no one saw coming” by Eugene Kim at Business Insider - April 2, 2016  Jeff Bezos’s 2015 Letter to Shareholders (PDF) “Kids Are Practicing Their Reading Skills to Soothe Shy Shelter Dogs” by Anna Gragert at My Modern Met - February 24, 2016   Interview with Douglas Rushkoff at South By Southwest Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity Rushkoff at The Commonwealth Club   Content Horace and Pete 10 episodes by Louis C.K., available for purchase Summer Doorways: A Memoir by W. S. Merwin “Alexa, Good Morning!” (Try it yourself.)   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 Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.    Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

The Kindle Chronicles’ first listener   Interview starts at 14:54 and ends at 43:13   I should have known that we’d be building our life around it like we have other things that you’ve done. I’ve gotten used to it. I should have known.   Intro Whill wheelchair site   News “Amazon is the ‘most reputable’ company in the US” by Julie Bort at Business Insider - March 29, 2016 Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown Echo Dot and Amazon Tap arrive!   Tech Tip An ethical question about borrowing eBooks from your library with OverDrive   Interview with Darlene TKC 1 with Baratunde Thurston TKC 208 with Jeff Bezos Darlene’s art quilts page   Next Week’s Guest Douglas Rushkoff, author of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity - recorded at South by Southwest Interactive   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 Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.    Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!