The Kindle Chronicles

Len Edgerly
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Jun 13, 2020 • 52min

TKC 619 Brian Dumaine

Photo Credit: Fortune Magazine Author of Bezonomics: How Amazon is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It Interview starts at 14:21 and ends at 49:03 Links "Jeff Bezos's Instagram Posts Are a Lesson in How to Respond to a Crisis" by Minda Zetlin at Inc. - June 10, 2020 Echo Frames Echo Buds "Amazon launches two new Kindle Paperwhite colors" by Jay Peters at The Verge - June 10, 2020 Kindle Paperwhite "Amazon Fire HD 8 has one tiny feature I'd love to see in new iPad Pros" by Tom Bedford at techradar - June 5, 2020 Brian Dumaine at Linkedin "The cost of keeping schools closed will be dreadful" by Tim Harford at Financial Times - June 12, 2020. Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day's entry by saying, "Alexa, what's new?" Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.
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Jun 6, 2020 • 51min

TKC 618 David Pepper

Author of The Voter File (Photo © Claire Salzman) Interview starts at 16:23 and ends at 43:41 Links Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 8 Plus Fire HD Plus bundled with Wireless Charging Dock "You can Now Permanently Delete Kindle eBooks on Kindle Devices" by Nathan at theebbookreader.com - July 2, 2020 OverDrive app for Fire tables Books in the Jack Sharpe series by David Pepper: The People's House (Book 1), The Wingman (Book 2), and The Voter File (Book 3) David Pepper at Linkedin, Twitter, and Facebook Next Week's Guest Brian Dumaine, author of Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives, and What the World's Companies Are Learning From It Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day's entry by saying, "Alexa, what's new?" Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.
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May 29, 2020 • 52min

TKC 617 Alexandra Woodworth

Manager, Amazon Literary Partnership Interview starts at 12:49 and ends at 46:59 Links "Amazon Echo Look No More - Another Alexa Device Discontinued" by Bret Kinsella at voicebot.ai - May 29, 2020 Alexandra Woodworth at Linkedin Amazon Literary Partnership Artist Relief Deep Vellum Publishing City of Asylum LitNet Amazon Book Review Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City by Fang Fang Academy of American Poets How to suspend a Hold on OverDrive My Must Reads app Libro.fm Next Week's Guest David Pepper, author of The Voter File, available for pre-order with delivery June 2, 2020 Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day's entry by saying, "Alexa, what's new?" Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.
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May 23, 2020 • 52min

TKC 616 Darlene

My Wife and Sophie on the upper deck in Maine Interview starts at 13:26 and ends at 51:35 Links "The Amazon Kindle is doomed, unless it uses color e-paper" by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - May 18, 2020 PhoneSoap UV-C sanitizing devices Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir by Jennifer McGaha The Professional Book Nerds Podcast Next Week's Guest David Pepper, author of The Voter File, available for pre-order with delivery June 2, 2020 Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day's entry by saying, "Alexa, what's new?" Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.
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May 16, 2020 • 57min

TKC 615 James McQuivey

Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research Interview starts at 16:22 and ends at 53:61 Links Amazon press release on new HD 8 tablets - May 13, 2020 "Amazon upgrades its Fire HD 8 Tablet" by David Carnoy at CNET - May 13, 2020 Readwise "The Future of Work Starts Now" by James McQuivey at Forrester Research - April 20, 2020 Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day's entry by saying, "Alexa, what's new?" Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.
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May 9, 2020 • 52min

TKC 614 Josh Bookin

Associate Director - instructional support and development Harvard Graduate School of Education Interview starts at 9:28 and ends at 50:27 Links DK Readers L2: Star Wars: The Adventures of BB-8 by David Fentiman Josh Bookin Harvard Graduate School of Education Harvard Graduate School of Education site on teaching remotely Harvard-wide site on teaching remotely A site from University of Michigan about online teaching Zoom Canvas Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day's entry by saying, "Alexa, what's new?" Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.
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May 1, 2020 • 45min

TKC 613 Szczepan Twardoch

Author of The King of Warsaw Interview starts at 10:30 and ends at 42:02 Links Amazon First Quarter Earnings press release - April 30, 2020 "Amazon Says It Will Forgo Billions in Profits to Invest into Worker Safety Measures" by Lauren Debter at Forbes - April 30, 2020 The King of Warsaw by Szczepan Twardoch translated by Sean Gasper Bye Male Fantasies, Vol. 2: Male Bodies - Psychoanalyzing the White Terror by Klaus Theweleitf Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day's entry by saying, "Alexa, what's new?" Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.
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Apr 25, 2020 • 54min

TKC 612 A G Riddle

Author of Pandemic and other science thrillers Interview starts at 18:39 and ends at 52:01 Links "Bezos Takes Back the Wheel at Amazon" by Karen Weise at The New York Times - April 22, 2020 Jay Carney interview with Brian Stelter - March 29, 2020 Jeff Bezos's Letter to Shareholders - April 16, 2020 "Will you buy the Pocketbook Color?" by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - April 23, 202 Books by A. G. Riddle Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day's entry by saying, "Alexa, what's new?" Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.
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Apr 18, 2020 • 59min

TKC 611 David Burleigh

Director of Brand Marketing and Communication at OverDrive Interview starts at 13:08 and ends at 55:48 Links "How Are Indie and SFF Bookstores Weathering the Coronavirus Outbreak?" By Andrew Liptak at Tor.com - April 15, 2020 "Survey of Independent Bookstores Shows Coronavirus Toll" by Alex Green at Publishers Weekly - April 8, 2020 The Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver "Audiobooks and literacy: a rapid review of the literature" at National Literacy Trust in London - February 17, 2020 Link to full report (PDF) by Emily Best OverDrive OverDrive's Libby app Certified B Corporation Big Library Read Funny, You Don't Look Autistic: A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum by Michael McCreary Blog of Steve Potash, Founder and CEO of OverDrive Panorama Project #eBooksForAll Amazon Crossing's nine free titles for World Book Day The King of Warsaw: A Novel by Szczepan Twardoch available for pre-order from Amazon Crossing with release on April 21, 2020 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day's entry by saying, "Alexa, what's new?" Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.
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Apr 10, 2020 • 53min

TKC 610 Dean Koontz

Author of Devoted, published March 31, 2020 by Thomas & Mercer Interview starts at 18:15 and ends at 49:40 Links Macmillan CEO John Sargent's letter rescinding changes in eBook pricing to libraries - March 17, 2020 "Macmillan Abandons Library E-book Embargo" by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - March 17, 2020. "Macmillan lifts library ebook embargo; DBW ban ends" by Bradley Metrock at Digital Book World - March 17, 2020 Audible Captions demo (video) "Amazon extends its US and Canada returns window to May 31" by Ben Fox Rubin at CNET - April 3, 2020 "Amazon and Apple Strike Deal for Prime Video In-App Purchases and Subscriptions" by John Gruger at Daring Fireball - April 2, 2020 Dean Koontz on Twitter Devoted by Dean Koontz Other books by Dean Koontz mentioned in the interview: Watchers (1999); The Eyes of Darkness (1981); Innocence (2013); Elsewhere (available for pre-order, ships October 20, 2020); the Moonlight Bay series (2 books first published in 1997 and 1998); the Odd Thomas series (6 books, the first published in 2003); the Jane Hawk series (5 books, the first published in 2017) Canine Companions for Independence Archaea microbe (Wikipedia) A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog Named Trixie by Dean Koontz Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day's entry by saying, "Alexa, what's new?" Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

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