The Kindle Chronicles

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!

Editor-at-Large, CNET’s Technically Literate Interview starts at 19:40 and ends at 43:30 We have a very different generation coming up who may relate to literature in a different way, because we have completely digital generations coming up. So I think those of us who present stories to the world have to be open to different ways to present them. And when we have a way to do it like we do in Technically Literate, that is an on-line way to do it, I think we always have to be thinking about pushing the boundary. News “2016 Digital Book World Keynote Presentation” by Data Guy at Author Earnings - March 11, 2016 “Most everything you wanted to know about Data Guy: Revealed This Sunday in TeleRead” by David Rothman - March 25, 2016 Interview with Data Guy by Susan Lulgjuraj for TeleRead - will be live March 27, 2016 here. “Data Guy’s Web of Analysis: DBW Turns Hostility Into a Handshake” by Porter Anderson at Publishing Perspectives - March 10, 2016 “City re-introduces $30M Amazon contract for e-book marketplace” by Eliza Shapiro at Politico New York - March 22, 2016 “Banned by Amazon for returning faulty goods” by Miles Brignall at The Guardian March 18, 2016 “Return Too many items on Amazon? Will Amazon Ban your Account?” by Tuan Do at Techwalls - March 21, 2016 “Anonymous Rips Denver, Tattered Cover Over Homeless Policies, Threatens Doxing” by Michael Roberts at Westword - March 21, 2016 “Why is Amazon So Weird?” by Daniel Berkowitz at Digital Book World - March 23, 2016 Tech Tip “Missed the Kindle update deadline? Here’s how to update manually” by Nicole Cozma at CNET - March 23, 2016 Amazon’s Help page for Critical Software Update for Kindle eReaders Interview with Janis Cooke Newman CNET’s Technically Literate home page Amazon’s Janis Cooke Newman Page Lit Camp Writer’s Conference Technically Literate’s first short story, “The Last Taco Truck in Silicon Valley” by Michelle Richmond. (Video interview of Richmond by CNET’s editor-in-chief Connie Gugleilmo is at the end of the story.) 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!

Start and End Times of Interviews at South by Southwest Interactive Martin Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post (8:20 to 18:34) Scott Totman, head of digital product engineering at Capital One 22:16 to 31:30) Rob Holzer, founder and CEO of Matter Unlimited and executive producer of Inside Impact: East Africa Adrian Bell, co-founder and Executive Director of Action Impact in Dubai Links to topics mentioned President Obama’s Keynote address at SXSW (Video) - March 11, 2016 Dewey Winburne Community Service Awards MEANS database to fight hunger in America http://www.theparentscircle.com/http://www.theparentscircle.com/ Inside Impact: East Africa, 360 Video film by Matter Unlimited for the Clinton Global Initiative Ricoh Theta S Digital Camera at Amazon.com Brené Brown, author of Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution. OpeneBooks.net Two TED talks by Brené Brown Next Week’s Guests Janis Cooke Newman, Editor-at-Large, Technically Literate Douglas Rushkoff, author of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity 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!

Senior Writer, Publishers Weekly Interview starts at 19:24 and ends at 33:23 I absolutely think it’s madness to continue to push for regulatory input into the eBook market. Look what it did for you last time. Let’s just let the lawyers go away now. We’ve all articulated what we think the problem is in the market. Publishers came together to put the agency model in place, and they perfectly articulated the reason why they believe the agency model should be in place. I think that there’s got to be business solutions at this point. News “Supreme Court Rejects Apple’s Appeal” by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - March 7, 2016 “Supreme Court Declines to Hear Apple’s Appeal in E-Book Pricing Case” by Adam Liptak and Vindu Goel at The New York Times - March 7, 2016 Hagens Berman press release on Supreme Court decision - March 8, 2016 “Apple’s $400M E-Book Payout: How Much You’ll Get and When” by Jeff John Roberts at Fortune - March 8, 2016 Department of Justice press release on Apple case - March 7, 2016 “The Cost of Returning Encryption to Amazon Fire” (video) at BloombergBusiness - March 7, 2016 “Jeff Bezos Lifts Veil on his Rocket Company, Blue Origin” by Kenneth Chang - March 8, 2016 “Why Jeff Bezos is finally ready to talk about taking people to space” by Christian Davenport at The Washington Post - March 8, 2016 “The Echo from Amazon Brims with Groundbreaking Promise” by Farhad Manjoo at The New York Times - March 9, 2016 “B&N is Shutting Down One of Its Top Three Digital Blunders on March 15” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - March 3, 2016 “B&N CDO Fred Argir: We Must Win the Mobile Experience” by Daniel Berkowitz at Digital Book World - March 8, 2016 Tech Tips How to save an audio clip using the Audible for Windows 10 app (video and instructions) Kindle for iOS update Interview with Andrew Albanese “Supreme Court Rejects Apple’s Appeal” by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - March 7, 2016 Stories by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly Content “How to Format Your Book for Kindle,” a web course by Bruce Jones. (Enter the code KINDLEBONUS to get discounted price of $49 instead of original price, $149 Course link with discount already entered Why We Read Fiction by Lisa Zunshine Putting My Foot Down by Brent Underwood Next Week’s Show An audio collage of voices and ideas from South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, including Douglas Rushkoff, author of a new book, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity 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!

English Translator of Winter Men by Jesper Bugge Kold Interview starts at 20:10 and ends at 41:14 I like the fact that I can tell an editor there [at AmazonCrossing] that this book is something that you should really look for, and they listen. And in this case, from start to finish, I suggested this book, and it became a reality and now I’m sitting with it right here on my desk. News Amazon Tap - pre-order available at Amazon.com for $129.99, with delivery march 31, 2016 Echo Dot - Order from your Alexa or the Amazon app on your Android or iOS smartphone “Amazon Tap puts Alexa into a portable Bluetooth speaker” (with video demo) by Lauren Goode and Dieter Bohn at The Verge - March 3, 2016 “Amazon’s Echo Dot lets you put Alexa inside any speaker” by Lauren Good and Jacob Kastrenakes at The Verge - March 3, 2016 “Amazon’s smartphone flop was the best thing that happened to Alexa” by Lauren Goode at The Verge - March 3, 2016 “Amazon Fights for a bigger share of the AI Assistant Pie with Echo Dot and Amazon Tap” by Anthony Karcz at Forbes - March 3, 2016 “Amazon Introduces 2 Alexa Voice-Controlled Devices” by Farhad Manjoo at The New York Times - March 3, 2016 “Amazon’s Alexa will be able to control Nest and Honeywell thermostats this month” by Jacob Kastrenakes at The Verge - March 3, 2016 “Amazon, Federation of the Blind Reach Agreement on Accessibility” by Michele Molnar at Edweek - March 2, 2016 “Amazon Will Partner With Advocacy Group to Make Its E-Readers More Accessible to The Blind” by Ashley Gross at KPLU.org - March 2, 2016 “Amazon Decrypts Fire Tablets in Latest Update, Invites the FBI and NSA to Come On In” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - March 3, 2016 “Amazon stops encryption on Fire tablets, leaving data vulnerable to attack” by Nathanial Mott at The Guardian - March 3, 2016 “Amazon quietly disabled encryption in the latest version of Fire OS” by Ashley Carmen at The Verge - March 3, 2016 Full Disk Encryption explained (yeah, right) at source.android.com “Recall on CHARGER for two Amazon-UK Fire Tablets - possible risk of electric shock” by Andrys Basten at A Kindle World blog - March 2, 2016 “ALERT: Amazon recalls Kindle charger over electrical shock fears - is YOUR child at risk?” by Katie Mansfield at The Express - March 2, 2016 Tech Tip “The Benefits of an Amazon Giveaway for Kindle” by Chris McMullen at Digital Book World - March 2, 2016 Amazon Giveaway - How it Works Interview with K. E. Semmel Winter Men by Jesper Bugge Kold, translated into English by K. E. Semmel (Free download available with Kindle Unlimited) “How Amazon came to dominate fiction in translation” by Allison Flood at The Guardian - December 9, 2015 The Seventh Child by Erik Valeur, translated by K. E. Semmel “Writing While Translating” by Idra Novey at Literary Hub - February 25, 2016 Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones An Untamed State by Roxane Gay Content Technically Literate, short stories published exclusively on CNET.com “Reading Literature in the Digital Age” - a free online course via University of Basel Pry Comment by Eolake Stobblehouse 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 Lit Up: One Reporter. Three Schools. Twenty-four Books That Can Change Lives Interview starts at 14:49 and ends at 42:07 You worry about the next generation of readers. Is literature going to survive? It seems to be surviving at the moment, but the iPhone has been around since 2007, and the way that digital culture has taken over in those nine years is staggering. Its’s much more comprehensive and thoroughgoing than anyone expected. Intro The music of bluegrass legend Peter Rowan News “Apple Thinks It Can Win This Case at the Supreme Court” by Philip Elmer-DeWitt at Fortune - November 3, 2015 Apple’s Supreme Court Petition for a Writ of Certiorari (PDF) - October 28, 2015 “Apple’s $450 million e-books settlement gets final approval” by James Niccolai at PC World - November 22, 2016 “Scripps National Spelling Bee Announces Kindle as New Presenting Sponsor” - press release February 23, 2016 World’s Most Admired Companies in 2016 - Fortune Tech Tip Dave Slusher podcast episode of Evil Genius Chronicles in which he loses his Kindle and shuts it down via Amazon (starts at 31:50) Amazon Fire TV Device Software Updates Interview with David Denby Lit Up: One Reporter. Three Schools. Twenty-four Books That Can Change Lives. by David Denby Snark: It’s Mean, It’s Personal, and It’s Ruining Our Conversation by David Denby “Do Teens Read Seriously Anymore?” by David Denby at The New Yorker - February 23, 2016 “A Champion of the Humanities: David Denby” by Wendy Smith at Publishers Weekly - January 29, 2016 David Denby on NPR’s “On Point” with Tom Ashbrook - February 11, 2016 Great Books by David Denby Freddy the Pig series by Walter R. Books (available free with Kindle Unlimited) Books mentioned by Sherry Turkle: Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age and Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah Spark Notes and CliffsNotes A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan Netherland: A Novel by Joseph O'Neill Emma by Jane Austin Middlemarch by George Eliot The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain David Denby’s review of “Wild” in The New Yorker - December 8, 2014 Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Washington Square by Henry James "The Heiress" (DVD) at Amazon.com “The Maltese Falcon” (Amazon video) “The Plot Against America: Donald Trump’s Rhetoric” by David Denby at The New Yorker - December 15, 2016 “Stop Humiliating Teachers” by David Denby at The New Yorker - February 11, 2016 Content Winter Men, available for pre-order with delivery March 1, 2016. English Translator: K. E. Semmel CHI-RAQ, directed by Spike Lee, free to Prime members on Amazon Instant Video David Axelrod’s podcast interview with Spike Lee on The Axe Files - November 30, 2015 Comments A suggestion for an improvement to Kindle for Mac Next Week’s Guest K. E. Semmel, English translator of Winter Men by Jesper Bugge Kold 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 Winter Men Interview starts at 9:42 and ends at 43:24 I was very scared that it was translated into German. I really wanted it to be translated but still scared, because it’s like their war. I come from another country with another perspective on the war and write about their war and their forefathers. But the reception has been overwhelming. I’ve seen some reviews where they write that every college student should read this book, to read about their past. It’s a lot of responsibility to put on me, but some wrote that they are better able to understand their grandfathers better because of this book. That’s quite amazing. News Anonymous “Data Guy” of Author Earnings does hourlong video interview with Science Fiction & Fantasy Marketing Podcast - February 16, 2016 Author Earnings website “Amazon Kindle sales up 200% in India” at The Times of India - February 19, 2016 “Kobo CEO faces uphill e-book battle against Apple, Amazon” at The Globe and Mail - February 19, 2016 Amazon press release on acquisition of new Woody Allen film - February 18, 2016 Tech Tip Guitar Tuna iPhone app Interview with Jesper Bugge Kold Winter Men, available for pre-order with delivery March 1, 2016. English Translator: K. E. Semmel Jesper Bugge Kold’s author page at Amazon.com The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell Country in Past Tense by Jesper Bugge Kold - available for pre-order with delivery March 14, 2017. English translator: K.E. Semmel Content “Scribd Just Gutted Its eBook Service” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - February 16, 2016 Domino by Kia Heavey, a Kindle Scout winner, published by Kindle Press “Greenwich Author Wins Kindle Press Contract” at the Greenwich Sentinel - February 15, 2016 Next Week’s Guest David Denby, author of Lit Up (video of interview at Huffpost Live) “Why Reading Mark Twain is the Key to Understanding Donald Trump” by Ryan Buxton at The Huffington Post 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!

Chief Executive Officer of The Tattered Cover Book Stores Interview starts at 10:03 and ends at 42:09 I think it would be interesting for independent booksellers to experiment with selling eBooks directly, because it’s become much less device-centric. Tablets have in some ways normalized that world, and the notion that someone could build an open-source eReader app and that we could have direct relationships with publishers and sell eBooks is something I think worth exploring down the road. But it’s not a part of our core business. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Google do what they do really well. For us, we have limited resources and limited brainpower. I’d rather see us make our stores even better than focus a lot of energy on that. News “Amazon exec to run digital efforts of Italy’s government” by Angel Gonzalez at The Seattle Times - February 10, 2016 Diego Piacentini featured on Amazon employee page “Working at Amazon” web site - includes signup for receiving email updates Amazon organization chart February 2016 Author Earnings Report “Digital Arachnid: What Does Author Earnings Say to the Industry?” by Porter Anderson - February 9, 2016 “My Bias (again)” by Hugh Howey - February 12, 2016 “Amazon’s bookstore buzz hits San Diego” at the Lost Angeles Times - February 11, 2016 Shelf Awareness “Amazon Books Roundup” - February 12, 2016 (scroll down to find it) Tech Tip Amazon.com help page showing which Kindle you have “Critical Software Update for Kindle E-Readers” at Amazon.com Interview with Len Vlahos The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) “Len Vlahos, ‘The ABA Guy,’ to Publish YA Novel" by Judith Rosen at Publishers Weekly - October 23, 2013 The Scar Boys by Len Vlahos “Joyce Meskis is selling Tattered Cover Book Stores after 41 years” by Aldo Svaldi at The Denver Post - March 26, 2015 Kobo eReaders and eBooks available for purchase at The Tattered Cover website Blue Ink Review Brewing Beneath the Perk: My Journey through a coffee shop business..to Me by Teri Meehan, reviewed in Blue Ink Review Tattered Cover Press: Books on Demand Scar Girl by Len Vlahos - available for pre-order (hardcover only), delivery March 1 Content Harry Potter: The Complete Collection by J.K. Rowling (Kindle) - now $56.64 instead of the brief bargain price of $14.99 earlier this week. Postscript with Uber Driver Deb Brown (42:09 to 43:00) The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh (Link is to paperback copy at The Tattered Cover’s website) Next Week’s Guest Jesper Bugge Kold, author of Winter Men , an AmazonCrossing translation available for pre-order with delivery on March 1, 2016. You can get a free copy now via Kindle First if you are an Amazon Prime member. 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!

Creator of the I Love My Kindle Blog Interview starts at 10:46 and ends at 44:02 If people were evolving away from reading long-form reading, we would not have series. But right now people will say, “Oh yes, that’s great. It’s a 200-page book, but I want a thousand pages about this character. So I think you can make an argument that people are more into long-form reading that they were in the past. News “Mall CEO claims Amazon Books will open up to 400 physical storefronts” by Sam Machkovech at ars technica - February 2, 2016 “Amazon Plans Hundreds of Brick-and-Mortar Bookstores, Mall CEO Says” by Greg Bensinger at The Wall Street Journal - February 2, 2016 Business Insider photos of Amazon’s Seattle Book Store - February 3, 2016 “Unsubstantiated Rumor: Amazon to Open as Many as 400 Bookstores” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - February 2, 2016 Woody Allen interview in May, 2015 in which he whines about Amazon deal Tech Tip “Amazon’s Echo speaker can finally order you an Uber” at The Verge - February 5, 2016 “Amazon’s Kindle e-readers are getting a big software update soon” by Sam Byford at The Verge - February 3, 2016 5.7.2 Software update pages at Amazon.com for Kindle Voyage, Paperwhite (6th Generation), and Kindle “CBS Sports app for the Fire TV expected to be released this week in time for Super Bowl 50" Interview with Bufo Calvin I Love My Kindle blog I Love My Kindle blog subscription for Kindle - 99 cents a month The Collected I Love My Kindle Blog Volume 1 The Measured Circle blog by Bufo Calvin “How an e-book is like a treadmill at the gym” by Bufo Calvin Content Winter Men by Jesper Bugge Kold, an AmazonCrossing translation into English. Available as a free advance download for Prime members through Kindle First if you have not already downloaded a Kindle First book for February. Next Week’s Guest Len Vlahos, new owner of The Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver 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!

Editor of Amazon’s Little A imprint and Day One magazine Interview starts at 18:03 and ends at 42:20 A lot of editors across Amazon Publishing kind of have their hands in Day One. Everyone’s really excited about it and dedicated to discovering these new voices and finding opportunities for new writers. (Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths) News Amazon.com announces fourth quarter earnings (Press Release) - January 28, 2016 “Amazon Stock Plummets on Disappointing Q4 Results” by Jason Del Rey at re/code - January 28, 2016 “Amazon’s stock dives, but it’s because of a ‘good problem’” by Tracey Lien at The Los Angeles Times - January 29, 2016 “Amazon Prime is growing like crazy” by Jillian D’Onfro at Business Insider - January 25, 2016 “Amazon Prime Grew 35% in 2015” - report (PDF) by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners - January 25, 2016 “How Many Prime Members Does Amazon Have (And Why It Matters)” by Daniel B. Kline at The Motley Fool - January 26, 2016 TV commercials for #BaldwinBowl - Cheerleaders and Cheese Footballs “Get ready for Amazon’s third billion-dollar business: Echo” by Eugene Kim at Business Insider - January 27, 2016 “Amazon reportedly seeks a bigger hand in Android phone software” by Ron Amadeo at Ars Technica - January 25, 2016. Tech Tip Duolingo app for Fire tablet and iPhone (free) Interview with Morgan Parker Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night - poems by Morgan Parker (paperback only) The Offing Grave of Hummingbirds by Jennifer Skutelsky published by Little A Content Day One at Amazon.com - subscription costs $1.59 a month or 37 cents an issue, with a free 30-day trial when you subscribe “How to Publish Your Book” by Jane Friedman - The Great Courses 24-lecture series available at Audible.com for $24.46 or 1 credit 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 Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!