The Kindle Chronicles

Author of Maude   Interview starts at 15:00 and ends at 44:33 I do have an agent who called me, and he’s representing Maude. She’s been translated into Italian, German, and Russian. He made the deal for the audiobook. He’s right now negotiating with a few more countries. Whatever Kindle and Amazon don’t cover as far as print copies, he will handle that for me. And hopefully some day a motion picture!   News “Amazon Prime Price Drops to $73 This Weekend” at Forbes - January 15, 2016 Prime Discount at Amazon.com “Mozart in the Jungle” at Amazon.com “Amazon to Release Portable Version of Echo Speaker in Coming Weeks” by Greg Bensinger at The Wall Street Journal - January 11, 2016 “Ford, Amazon working to connect cars to smart homes” by Autuan Goodwin at CNET - January 5, 2015 “First Click: Apple should echo Amazon with a Siri speaker” by Thomas Ricker at The Verge - January 14, 2016 Alexa - $179.99 at Amazon.com   Tech Tip IFTT recipe for setting temperature on a NEST thermostat with Alexa IFTT recipe for having Alexa help find your phone by calling it iOS Kindle update version 4.16     Interview with Donna Foley Mabry “How a Shy Former Avon Lady Became the Queen of Self-Publishing” by Katie McCollow at Newsweek - August 9, 2015 “How Donna Mabry Went from Seamstress to Best-Selling Author” by Miral Sattar at Bibliocrunch - October 14, 2015 The Alexandra Merritt Mystery Series Box Set (Books 1 through 5) - Kindle format, available through Kindle Unlimited The Las Vegas Sophisticate Joyce Mochrie, proofreader The Manhattan Stories, Books 1 through 4 Maude in Kindle and Audible format Conversations with Skip in Kindle and Audible format Mary Ann Unger’s Matti James mysteries D. N. “Scotty” Curran’s books at Amazon.com The Iron Horse Chronicles by Robert Murphy Books by James C. Logsdon: The House of James - ExPat and Romblon, and The Soul of Black Mountain, Nevada   Content The Runaway Campaign: A Year Inside the Republican Race for President (Kindle Single) by The Washington Post The Ghost in My Brain: How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get it Back by Clark Elliot   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 Evil Genius Chronicles blog and podcast   Interview starts at 10:47 and ends at 42:22 This idea that books are exempt from the rules of hoarding, that you’re supposed to be happy that you have walls and walls lined with these things? I don’t actually feel that. I feel that if I had one of those book scanners or if there was a program, if Google had a book buy-back program where I could trade them every paper copy I have for a digital copy, I would do that in a heartbeat with almost every book in this house. I would love that. That would be the greatest thing that ever happened to me.    News“Amazon’s New Kindle Trade-In Program Includes a $20 Credit Toward a New Kindle” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - January 7, 2016Details of Kindle Trade In program at Amazon.com“Nook holiday sales plunge 25% to $41M as Barnes & Noble falls further behind Amazon Kindle” by Todd Bishop at GeekWire - January 7, 2016 “Amazon.com, Inc.’s Best-Selling Product in 2015” by Steve Symington at the Motley Fool - January 4, 2016 Psychotherapeutic Reiki: A Holistic Body-Mind Approach to Psychotherapy by Richard R. Curtin Jr. Click here for paperback version published via CreateSpace “Ford partners with Amazon to connect cars with homes” by Marco della Cava at USA Today - January 5, 2016   Tech TipBear Motion Premium Slim Sleeve Case Cover for Kindle Voyage - $9.89 at Amazon.com   Interview with Dave SlusherEvil Genius ChroniclesThe Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie KondoSynergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (paperback) by R. Buckminster FullerMarvel UnlimitedRock and Roll Geek Show hosted by Michael ButlerBabies Love album by Iron MaidenNational Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)Scott SiglerNathan LowellJ A Konrath The Mad at Dad Podcast with Dave Slusher and Michael Butler   ContentAmazon profile of Donna Mabry, author of Maude   Carless in Denver: Day 8 I am posting daily at my Instagram account as my wife and I continue an experiment in urban living without owning a car. So far so good. Denver turns out to have lots of transportation options that we are learning how to use efficiently.    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!

Editorial Director at Publishers Weekly   Interview starts at 16:57 and ends at 44:32   It’s far from the death of eBooks. eBooks are a permanent part of the publishing industry, for sure. But what’s the next innovation? What’s the next mover? What’s going to come along to jumpstart it again? Publishers acknowledge that all you've really done so far is to put the text into a digital format.   News “DOJ Urges Supreme Court to Deny Apple’s E-book Appeal” by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - December 31, 20115 “The Judge that Apple Hates” by David Margolick at Vanity Fair - May 31, 2014 Amazon’s 2015 holiday press release “Amazon may have up to 80 million high-spendiong Prime members worldwide” by Tricia Duryee at GeekWire - September 14, 2015 Tech Tip Thinking out loud about multi-reading Interview with Jim Milliot “PW’s Person of the Year: Jeff Bezos” by Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly - December 8, 2008 “New Study Finds Low Levels of Digital Library Borrowing” by Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly - November 27, 2015 Content “The 110 Most Useful URLs for Kindle Owners” at Me and My Kindle - January 1, 2015 Next Week’s Guest Dave Slusher, host of Evil Genius Chronicles podcast 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!

Publications Specialist, Wyoming State Library   Interview starts at 20:34 and ends at 38:51   We know that libraries will continue to evolve. The technology is changing so fast. It’s kind of hard to say how they will continue to evolve. But they are going to be out there to meet the needs of their patrons.   News Jeff Bezos's address to the Academy of Achievement (video) in 2001 Interview with Susan Mark Wyoming State Library GoWYLD.net “Younger Americans’ Reading and Library Habits” by Pew Internet - October 23, 2012 Next Week’s Guest Jim Milliot, editorial director of Publishers Weekly Correction This really is episode 386, not 388 as I state in the intro. TKC regrets the error. 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 - Amazon Devices   Interview starts at 18:29 and ends at 37:47   We spent two days in an off-site with Jeff going through the experience, setting up little scenarios of “Ok, here’s the customer. They’ve done’ this, they’ve done this.” And then we would go off in our own corners for 15 minutes and be that customer and then come back together and discuss “What did we think worked, what didn’t work.” Two full days  dedicated to that customer experience, thinking about what it’s going to be like for a customer to use Kindle. I thought it was an amazing example of us investing in what it takes to get it right for the customer.    News “A Secretive Air Cargo Operation is Running in Ohio, and Signs Point to Amazon” by Kari Paul at Motherboard - November 23, 2015 “Amazon in talks to lease Boeing jets to launch its own air-cargo business” by Jay Greene and Dominic Gates at The Seattle Times - December 17, 2015 “Amazon’s next $400 billion opportunity” by Jilian D’Onfro at Business Insider - December 18, 2015 “Amazon to Roll Out a Fleet of Branded Trailer Trucks” by Leena Rao at Fortune - December 4, 2015 “Amazon.com Inc Just Expanded an Underappreciated Prime Perk” by Sam Mattera at The Motley Fool - December 13, 2015 Photo sharing and other Amazon Household benefits Amazon expands Fire TV selection - press release December 17, 2015 Tech Tip "Amazon Fire OS 5.1.1 update: Does it change anything?” by Paul St John Mackintosh at TeleRead - December 15, 2015 “First Look: Amazon’s $50 Fire tablet” by Chris Meadows at TeleRead - October 2, 2015 “My $50 Fire microSD memory problem fixed - no thanks to ES File Explorer” by Paul St John Mackintosh at TeleRead - November 29, 2015 Interview with Charlie Tritschler “Kindle hacking, iPod parallels and a chat with the Kindle director” by Brier Dudley at The Seattle Times - November 19, 2007 Amazon Kindle - Wikipedia  Fire HD 8 Reader’s Edition - $249.99 Fire HD 8 Reader’s Edition press release - December 7, 2015 “Amazon updates its Fire tablet to make it better for night readers” by Micah Singleton at The Verge - December 2, 2015 Kindle Voyage Amazon Word Runner #wordrunner hashtag on Twitter  The Orphan Master’s Son: A Novel by Adam Johnson The Ranger’s Apprentice Collection by John A. Flanagan Content Cancer Vixen: A True Story (Pantheon Graphic Novels) by Marisa Acocella Marchetto Our Cancer Year by Harvey Pekar  American Splendor, the 2003 film based on the the life of Harvey Pekar - $14.99 at Amazon.com Dave Slusher’s Evil Genius Chronicles podcast and blog Comments Garrett Riley Outro “Amazon Echo turns on Candy Cane Lane” (video) - December 13, 2015 Next Week’s Guest Susan Mark of the Wyoming State Library   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!

Founder and CEO of BeeLine Reader   Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05   They tried it out with the first graders and found that in the control classroom the students’ reading fluency went up by about 8 points in the course of a month. In the BeeLine classroom, they went up by 14 points.   News Leather covers by Oberon Design for Kindles and Fires Limited Edition Premium Leather Case for Fire HD 8 - $79.99 Fire HD 8 Reader’s Edition - $249.99 “How to use Blue Shade on your Amazon Fire - but you really don’t want to” by Paul St John Mackintosh at TeleRead - December 7, 2015 “New Fire OS Bellini 5.1.1 Update Rollling Out to Some Fire Tablets” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - December 8, 2015 “Amazon’s Jeff Bezos: Let’s Send Donald Trump to Space” by Ryan Parker at Billboard.com - December 8, 2015 “The sweet rides of tech’s millionaires and billionaires” by Dave Smith at Tech Insider - November 27, 2015   Tech Tip The Martian by Andy Weir Being Mortal by Atul Gawande   Interview with Nick Lum BeeLine Reader BeeLine Reader wins Tech Award Coverage of BeeLine Reader in Gizmodo, FastCompany, and The Verge   Content Amazon Best Sellers of 2015 (So Far)   Next Week’s Guest Susan Mark, publications specialist at the Wyoming State Library.   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!

Graphic designer, author, product developer and workshop presenter   Interview starts at 14:57 and ends at 44:47 So whatever you do, you build products that relate to the knowledge that you have, and the two can feed each other, and you can do them in the same space.   News “Take your tablet to bed: Amazon rolls out ‘blue shade’ tool for Fire” by Ellie Zolfagharifard at The Daily Mail - December 2, 2015 “Slice: Amazon grabs one-third of Black Friday online sales” by Ian P. Murphy at RetailDive - December 3, 2015 Amazon press release on holiday sales - December 1, 2015 “Amazon Puts out Hollow Holiday Metrics” by Natasha Lomos at TechCrunch - December 1, 2015 “Barnes & Noble Shares Clobbered As It Tells a Dreary Financial Story” by David Lieberman at Deadline.com - December 4, 2015. “Barnes & Noble’s Problems are Self-Inflicted” by Lutz Muller at Seeking Alpha - December 1, 2015   Tech Tip  ComiXology and Amazon accounts can now be merged - via Tom Semple and Nate Hoffelder   Interview with Bruce Jones Books published by Bruce Jones on Amazon.com Essential Chords for Guitar, Mandolin, Ukulele & Banjo by Bruce Jones “Marketing Your Videos” workshop in Ghana - November 26, 2015 CreateSpace Johann Bashford coloring books Mandala Happiness coloring books by Bruce Jones Bruce's How to Publish your Book Facebook group and map site Pat Flynn’s Smart Passive Income website Bill Gentile’s Backpack Journalism website and online video workshops Periscope Blab Katch Books recommended by Bruce Jones: Write. Publish. Repeat. (The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success), by Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant  Kindle Publishing Package: How to Discover Best-Selling eBook Ideas + How to Write a Nonfiction eBook in 21 Days + 61 Ways to Sell More Nonfiction Kindle Books by Steve Scott How to Market a Book by Joanna Penn Publish and Profit by Mike Koenigs Bruce Jones's extensive resource page - highly recommended! Content Click here to receive a free eBook from the University of Chicago Press: Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic Adventure by Arthur Conan Doyle Interview with the authors by Scott Monty Click here for a video on how to install BlueFire Reader on your Fire tablet   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 The Selected Poems of Donald Hall   Interview starts at 12:51 and ends at 43:57   It was a house that my great-grandfather bought in 1865, and the same family’s always lived in it. I’ll be dying pretty soon, of course, in the way of things. But I have a granddaughter who’s going to take it over then. Magnificent!   News Tweet of Blue Origin landing by @JeffBezos Blue Origin rocket video - November 24, 2015 “The reusable space rocket is nearly here with Blue Origin’s first successful landing” by Loren Grush at The Verge - November 24, 2015   Tech Tip A conversation with my wife Darlene on how to share books from the same Kindle archive Interview with Donald Hall The Selected Poems of Donald Hall - available for preorder with delivery December 1, 2015 Essays After Eighty by Donald Hall White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 by Donald Hall The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon by Donald Hall Without: Poems by Donald Hall The Painted Bed: Poems by Donald Hall Web of Stories audio interviews with Donald Hall in 2010 Content 400 Open Road Media books on sale Monday, November 30, 2015, at the Kindle Store 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 Cuenca Tech Life blog   Interview starts at 1:29 and ends at 21:34   I just turned 70, so growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950s was very special. Cuenca reminded me of Brooklyn in the 1950s. The word for neighborhood in Spanish is barrio, so each barrio had its own butcher and baker and church. People knew you on the street, and they were very, very friendly. It was a safe place to be.   Interview with Lenny Charnoff Cuenca Tech Life blog - Technology News in Cuenca, Ecuador Cuenca iPad Users Group apps: Pocket, Medium, Yahoo News Digest The John Russell series by David Downing Books by Jo-Ann Mapson and J.A. Jance   Conversation with Darlene and Deb about our trip Hosteria La Andaluza in Riobamba, Ecuador Overseas Adventure Travel Tren Crucero train tour of Ecuador The Devil’s Nose Ali Shungu Mountaintop Ecolodge in Otavalo Hotel Casa Ordonez in Cuenca   Next Week’s Guest: Donald Hall, author of Essays After Eighty and the forthcoming Selected Poems   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!

This is the third of my Ecuador TKC episodes, uploaded today (Tuesday November 10, 2015) from the Ali Shungu Mountaintop Resort in Otavalo. You will hear the owners and hosts at Ali Shungu, Frank and Margaret, talk about their thirty-plus years in Ecuador, and you will hear from our birdwalk guide in Mindo, Alex Luna. Also, another roundtable conversation with Darlene and Deb on the week's highlights. You will find more coverage of our travels in Ecuador at LenEdgerly.com and photos at instagram.com/lenedgerly.