The Kindle Chronicles

My wife the amazing art quilter and Kindle enthusiast Interview starts at 14:08 and ends at 39:48 A friend of mine said, “How many times have you dropped a Paperwhite in the tub?” And she’s right. I never have. And so at that point I decided that I was just going to hold the Kindle, and if it fell into the tub I would deal with it. News “Half of Net Proceeds Is the Fair Royalty Rate for E-Books” at the Authors Guild - July 9, 2015 “Bread and Roses” by Hugh Howey at The Wayfinder - January 24, 2014 “Opinion: Apple Watch sales plunge 90%” by Brett Arends at MarketWatch - July 8, 2015 “Apple Watch Sales Aren’t Looking So Hot” by Aaron Tilley at Forbes - July 1, 2015 “After crushing rival smartwatch sales, Apple Watch portrayed as doomed by CNBC” by Daniel Eran Dilger at Apple Insider - June 28, 2015 Apple WatchCast episode 18 My 2014 interview with the cofounders of Spritz in TKC 323 Bigger than Black Friday? Amazon Prime Day - July 15, 2015 Prime Music $100,000 Sweepstakes Tech Tip How to disable Kindle Word Wise on your Paperwhite: 1. Start at the home screen 2. Tap on the menu icon at upper right. 3. Tap on Settings. 4. Tap on Reading Options. 5. Tap on Language Learning. 6. Turn Word Wise off. You can also turn off Vocabulary Builder. Interview with my wife Darlene Goodreads Newsletters (To receive the Goodreads email newsletters, click on your Goodreads Profile page and choose which ones you want.) Authors discussed in the interview: Harry Bingham’s Fiona Griffiths books - 1. Talking to the Dead: A Novel 2. Love Story, With Murders: A Novel 3. The Strange Death of Fiona Griffiths - $2.51 on Kindle 4. This Thing of Darkness (available for pre-order for $3.99 with delivery July 30, 2015) Julie Hyzy's White House Chef Mysteries Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs Mystery series Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult The Firebird by Susanna Kearsley J. A. Jance’s Ali Reynolds series and J.P. Beaumont series Dance of the Bones: A J.P. Beaumont and Brandon Walker Novel by J. A. Jance - available for Kindle preorder for $15.99 (!) with delivery on September 8, 2015, price set by the publisher, HarperCollins The Rise & Fall of Great Powers: A Novel by Tom Rachman Stephen White’s Alan Gregory series Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire Mysteries Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series and the Bosch Amazon Original Series C J Box's Joe Picket series Lee Child’s Amazon page Content “Reading War and Peace on my iPhone” by Clive Thompson at BookRiot Comments Next Week’s Guest Amy Edelman, founder and president of IndieReader 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!

Project Manager and TKC Listener Interview starts at 13:52 and ends at 39:03 I have the books that I read, and I read the books that I have. The ones that I collect now are meaningful to me. News “Apple Loses Appeal, E-book Decision is Affirmed” by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - June 30, 2015 US Court of Appeals affirmation of verdict against Apple (PDF)- June 30, 2015 Frequently Asked Questions about eBooks lawsuit Amazon press release on Alexa Skills Kit - June 25, 2015 Amazon Opens Alexa Voice Service to Third Party Hardware Makers - July 25, 2015 “Amazon Introduces the Alexa Fund: $100 Million in Investments to Fuel Voice Technology Innovation” - Amazon press release June 25, 2015 Tech Tips Information and download link for new Kindle Paperwhite 1st Generation software update Interview with John Sullivan John Sullivan’s favorite mystery writers: Elmore Leonard, Michael Connelly, Tyler Dilts (author of The Pain Scale), Sue Grafton. Other writers mentioned: Rick Bragg, Kurt Vonnegut Kindle First Getting Things Done by David Allen “The 10 Most Cryptic Project Management Expressions” by John Sullivan at Tech Republic - July 7, 2010 Justified on Prime Instant Video The Sopranos on Prime Instant Video Get Carter by Ted Lewis Joyland by Stephen King Still Foolin’ ‘Em by Billy Crystal (Audible) All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Books on the Nightstand podcast Content Blinkist.com Next Week’s Guest My wife Darlene 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!

Amazon’s Senior Vice President - Kindle Interview starts at 10:17 and ends at 42:35 My guess is that if you asked all the publishers with whom we’ve reached agreement in the last year they would tell you that they had to compromise some things they didn’t love. And we’ve had to compromise some things we didn’t necessarily choose on our own. And that’s okay. That’s business. News Amazon Echo aka Alexa - now available to anyone for $179.99 “Amazon echo owners now able to write reviews on Amazon” by Bufo Calvin at the I Love My Kindle blog - June 19, 2015 Amazon Fire Phone - unlocked 32GB $179.00 My Paperwhite 3 video review = June 18, 2015 “Under the Hood of Kindle’s New Typesetting Engine” - my new video at YouTube - June 21, 2015 Tech Tips Future Crimes: Everything is Connected, Everyone is Vulnerable and What we Can Do About It by Marc Goodman Interview with Russ Grandinetti About Kindle Unlimited Kindle Scout Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi Past interviews with Russ Grandinetti at The Kindle Chronicles Content tech.book(store) 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 Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Author of Barrio Imbroglio Interview starts at 14:24 and ends at 38:38 There’s an incentive for Amazon on two levels to say, “Hey, let’s try to bring in readers.” And one way of bringing in readers is you get more writers. And so they’re definitely reaching out to Spanish-language authors in America and in Latin Americas to get their work up on Kindle. News “Amazon updates Kindle Paperwhite with a high res screen in India” (video) at Digit - June 18, 2015 Neuer Kindle Paperwhite 3 Test (video in German) - June 19, 2015 Unboxing Kindle Voyage and new Paperwhite 3 (video in Spanish) - June 19, 2015 “Does Anyone Care About Amazon Publishing Contracts?” by Michael Kozlowski at Good EReader - June 19, 2015 Tech Tip Reminder from Andrys Basten that 3G eInk Kindles get 24/7 free eG access to Wikipedia Interview with Daniel Cubias Barrio Imbroglio (An Abraxas Hernandes Mystery Book 1) by Daniel Cubias Books at Amazon.com by Jo Nesbo Daniel Cubias’s blog Telemachus Press Daniel Cubias’s columns at The Huffington Post “Are e-Books a Good Idea for Latino Authors?” by Daniel Cubias at The Huffington Post - June 4, 2015 Open Road Media, publisher of poetry by John Ashbery in eBook format Content “Amazon deal brings 12,000 Marvel comics to the Kindle Store” by Rich McCormick at The Verge - June 19, 2015 “Marvel Renews Agreement with Comixology and Expands to Amazon” at Marvel.com - June 18, 2015 Marvel single issues now available at the Kindle Store Captain America: The First Avenger #1: First Vengeance - free from Marvel Comments Bufo Calvin, creator of the I Love My Kindle blog Tom Semple Next Week’s Guest Russ Grandinetti, Amazon’s senior vice president - Kindle 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 Underwriting Interview starts at 19:39 and ends at 39:40 I was a first-time novelist; I didn’t have a name at all. So it was a great way to find my audience before I tried to find an agent and a publisher. I think that is such a daunting process for writers, to find someone to pay attention and beyond paying attention to understand their work and let them maintain their vision. News “Bezos’s obsession translates to this honor for Amazon” by Andria Cheng at MarketWatch - June 4, 2015 “Up the Amazon with the BS Machine” by Ursala K. LeGuin at Book View Cafe - June 1, 2015 Tech Tips “I have seen the future of reading on the internet, and it is glorious” by Ezra Klein at Vox - June 11, 2015 Interview with Michelle MillerThe Underwriting by Michelle MillerMichelle Miller interviewed on Bloomberg (video) - May 29, 2015“How Serialized Fiction is Rewriting the Book” - at South by Southwest Interactive 2015 Content “29 Books You Should Definitely Bring to the Beach This Summer” by Lincoln Thompson at BuzzFeed Books - June 8, 2015 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!

Professor at Le Moyne College Interview starts at 17:02 and ends at 44:15 If it keeps your attention, and you’re enjoying it, and it’s making you think—that’s the book for you. News “Trade Sales Fell in February” by Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly - June 5, 2014 BEA panel on Publishing in China “China and Publishing: The Best of Times, or the Worst of Times?” by Rachel Aydt at Publishing Perspectives - May 29, 2015 “Shelf 2.0: Neil Strandberg to Join Shelf Awareness” - June 4, 2015 “Neil Strandberg to Leave ABA in July” - June 4, 2015 Russ Grandinetti interviewed on China Central Television May 27, 2015 “Discovery Challenges Mount in a Reader-Driven World” at Digital Book World - May 27, 2015 Tech Tip Version 4.9 of the Kindle for iOS app Interview with Prof. Krystine Batcho “Pros and Cons of Constant Communication” panel - March 13, 2015 at South By Southwest Le Moyne College website Articles by Krystine Batcho at Psychology Today “Nostalgia: A Mental Time Machine” by Krystine Batcho at Psychology Today - May 6, 2014 Spritz reader Books mentioned: Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut and anything by Albert Camus. Next Week’s Guest Michelle Miller, author of The Underwriting Congratulations …to Neil Strandberg, named this week Director of Technology and Operations at Shelf Awareness 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!

Intro Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback, 1993) by Scott McCloud Interviews at Denver Comic Con (Times show when each interview begins) Andy Mithun of the Stubby Shillelaghs (6:25) Critical Fail Kickstarter campaign Clayton Kauffman, 12, of Brush, Colorado (12:20) Dale Roberts of Dale Roberts Comics (13:56) Megan Sullivan, director of communications, Aurora Rise (17:23) “Alex Sullivan, one of 12 Aurora victims, died on 27th birthday” by Ethan Sacks at The Daily News - July 21, 2012 All C’s Collectibles in Aurora, Colorado Barry Sandoval, director of operations-comics, Heritage Auctions (23:05) Recommended graphic novels: Saga, Dark Knight, Mouse, Watchman Wayne Winsett, owner of Time Warp Comics in Boulder, Colorado (25:05) Michael Sheyahshe of Native Americans in Comic Books (28:42) Native Americans in Comic Books: A Critical Study by Michael Sheyahshe Super Indian at ComiXology Native Realities Press Gabe Llanas of Thinking Outside the Long Box podcast Content Uncanny X-Men (1963-2011) #244 at ComiXology “Amazon Discounts Two ‘Game of Thrones’ Graphic Novels!” at Me and My Kindle - May 29, 2015 Next Week’s Guest Prof. Krystine Batcho of Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, one of my favorite speakers at South by Southwest. I look forward to continuing the conversation we started there about the difference between reading on the Internet and reading books, and other topics that I hope will be of interest to you. 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!

Authors of The Straight-A Conspiracy Interview starts at 13:10 and ends at 41:52 What the brain science says is that if you’ve learned one thing, you can learn anything. If your brain has a preference right now, it’s just because you’ve been working on that thing a little more. Your brain is not coming into the world ready to be more Englishy than mathy. News “What’s The Best Ebook Reader?” at Lifehacker - April 16, 2015 “Five Best Ebook Readers” by Alan Henry at Lifehacker - April 19, 2015 “Most Popular Ebook Reader: Amazon Kindle Paperwhite” by Alan Henry at Lifehacker - April 21, 2015 Kindle Paperwhite Kindle Voyage “Turn a $99 Nook Into a Fully Fledged Android Table in Four Easy Steps” by Alan Henry at Lifehacker - February 29, 2012 “Three Suggestions for the Amazon Echo” YouTube video by Norm Gregory - May 15, 2015 Barnes & Nook Simple Touch at Amazon.com Tech Tips “Let’s Read PDF Files on the Amazon Kindle Voyage” (video) at Good EReader = March 5, 2015 Interview with Hunter Maats and Katie O'BrienThe Straight-A Conspiracy: Your Secret Guide to Ending the Stress of School and Totally Ruling the WorldStraight-A Conspiracy web site Content Goodreads “Best Crime & Mystery Books” listopia ratings Best Literary Mysteries at Goodreads listopia Best Historical Mysteries at Goodreads listopia Amazon Books editors’ list of 100 Mysteries & Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime Penguin Random House’s browsing area for Mystery & Suspense Mystery and Thriller titles at Open Road Media Outro “A Podcaster’s Passion for EBooks” by Len Edgerly at Open Road Media’s “Feed Your Need to Read” webpage - May 21, 2015 Next Week’s Show I have a ticket to attend the giant Denver Comic Con May 23rd and plan to bring you a collage of interviews and impressions from this third-largest Comic Con in the US. 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 Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day Interview starts at 21:13 and ends at 39:30 Becoming aware of shadow work enables us to prune away some of the clutter in our lives. Take, for example, surveys—the inundation of our time with surveys, requests for surveys. It seems you can’t buy anything or go anywhere or receive any service without having a followup survey usually emailed to you to ask you, “How did we do?” And I would just encourage the citizens to throw those away if they don’t feel like writing them. We are not obligated to fill out these surveys, but these organizations are preying on our time and asking us to do it. And that’s the kind of clutter that you can prune away. News “Reorder Prime-Eligible Items” with Echo (Amazon info) My preferred stylus, with microfiber tip - $7.99 Christopher March and Echo announce big news “Amazon Publishing Marches On” by Jim Milliot with Rachel Deahl at Publishers Weekly - May 8, 2015 “Amazon’s Hit Man” by Brad Stone at Bloomberg Business - January 25, 2012 Little a, Amazon Publishing’s literary fiction imprint Two Lions, Amazon Publishing’s young readers imprint “Kobo Launches Free eBook Platform for Southwest Airlines Travelers” at Digital Book World - May 13, 2015 Tech Tips “Amazon Kindle Fire 1st Generation Benefits from a New Firmware - Download Version 6.3.4” at Softpedia - May 15, 2015 Kindle Fire 1st Generation Software Updates at Amazon.com Kindle Fire HDX 7” 32 GB with Special Offers (Previous Generation -3rd 2013) - $199.00 Fire HD 6” 16 GB with Special Offers - $119.00 My eBay auction of Fire HD 6” 16 GB and case (ends Tuesday May 19 at 5:50 pm MDT) Poetic Slimline Case for Fire HDX 7 (2013) - $14.95 at Amazon.com Amazon Kindle Fire HDX Origami Case - $44.99 at Amazon.com Fire Keyboard - $59.99 AmazonBasics Bluetooth Keyboard for iOS devices - $25.99 Interview with Craig LambertShadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day by Craig LambertEarlier book (1981) on shadow work by Ivan IllichMind Over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing by Craig Lambert (1999)“Our Unpaid, Extra Shadow Work” - op ed piece at The New York Times - October 29, 2011 “Self-Service: A Sign ‘The Robots Have Won?’” radio interview with Craig Lambert for “Here & Now” on WBUR - November 28, 2011 “‘Rise of the Robots’ and ‘Shadow Work’” by Barbara Ehrenreich at The New York Times Sunday Book Review - May 11, 2015 Content Amazon Editors’ Young Adult Book Club Amazon Editors’ YA Book Club group at Goodreads Next Week’s Guests Hunter Maats and Katie O’Brien, coauthors of an indie publishing success story titled The Straight-A Conspiracy: Your Secret Guide to Ending the Stress of School and Totally Ruling the World. 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!

INSERT PHOTO OF CUTE DOG HERE I have tweaked my workflow for uploading new episodes of the show and want to make sure it works before I begin creating TKC 354 this week. If you see this and could let me know how it looks and sounds on your devices, I would appreciate hearing from you at PodChronicles AT gmail DOT com. Here is a link to Amazon.com (feel free to buy something with it!)