The Kindle Chronicles

Author of the Frank Adversego Thriller Series Interview starts at 11:14 and ends at 35:51 "Alexa's pretty primitive. I think it's very concerning from a cybersecurity point of view, because people have already learned how to spoof Alexa. Just a few days ago they came up with the equivalent of a dog whistle-type command that you couldn't hear, but Alexa could. Someone could turn it on and off." News "An Amazon Echo recorded a family's conversation, then sent it to a random person in their contacts, report says" by Hamza Shaban at The Washington Post - May 24, 2018 "Don't Freak Out About That Amazon Alexa Eavesdropping Situation" by Lily Hay Newman at Wired - May 24, 2018 "HBG, Amazon Partner on Narrative Content for Echo Device" by Calvin Reid at Publishers Weekly - May 22, 2018 "Are ebooks dying or thriving? The answer is yes" by Thu-Huong Ha at Quartz - May 13, 2018 Tech Tip Use Household Profiles to Share Your Fire Tablet - Amazon.com Interview with Andrew Updegrove The Frank Adversego Thrillers by Andrew Updegrove at Amazon.com The Blockchain Affair (chapter by chapter, beginning with Prologue and Chapter 1) Andrew-Updegrove.com Content Books on Artificial Intelligence recommended by Andy Updegrove: Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies 1st Edition by Nick Bostrom Thinking Machines: The Quest for Artificial Intelligence--and Where It's Taking Us Next by Luke Dormehi The Quest for Artificial Intelligence by Nils J. Nilsson Podcast interviews with James and Deborah Fallows, authors of Our Towns: A 100,000 Mile Journey into the Heart of America: Max Linsky of the Longform Podcast, Ezra Klein of The Ezra Klein Show, John Dickerson of the CBS This Morning Podcast, Sam Wang of the WooCast Politics & Polls podcast, and Chuck Todd of Meet the Press podcast. Next Week's Guest Nick Wingfield, former tech reporter at The New York Times, currently senior editor at The Information Outro Thanks to Stephen Campbell of The Author Biz podcast for generously helping me meet the deadline for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that went into effect in Europe today. I modeled my new Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy on Stephen's website. 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 Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Editor-in-Chief of Good E-Reader Interview starts at 3:45 and ends at 33:51 News "Amazon Go cashier-free store could be headed to SF's Union Square" by Matier & Ross at The San Francisco Chronicle - May 13, 2018 "The Information hires NY Times's Wingfield" by Chris Roush at Talking Biz News - May 15, 2018 The Information "Trump personally pushed postmaster general to double rates on Amazon, other firms" by Damian Paletta and Josh Dawsey at The Washington Post - May 18, 2018 "You'll soon hear 8 new voices in Amazon Alexa skills" by Michelle Fitzsimmons at Techradar - May 16, 2018 Tech Tip "How to Tag Your Highlights While You Read" by Daniel Doyon at Readwise - May 16, 2018 Readwise.io Interview with Michael Kozlowski Good e-Reader Good e-Reader app store and YouTube channel Good e-Reader store "Storytel e-Reader will launch this summer" by Michael Kozlowski at Good E-Reader - May 16, 2018 Storytel Kobo "How CLEARink technology is going to change e-readers for the better" by Markus Reily at Good E-Reader - August 1, 2017 CLEARink Interview with Dr. Jeanne Tifts, English teacher at Belmont Hill School (Interview begins at 33:52 and ends at 43:50) Loom Next Week's Guest Andrew Updegrove, author of The Turing Test: A Tale of Artificial Intelligence and Malevolence (Frank Adversego Thrillers Book 4) Outro music by the Belmont Hill School B-flats Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Authors of Our Towns: A 100,000-mile Journey Into the Heart of America Interview starts at 9:43 and ends at 39:14 "James Fallows: 'Through my reportorial lifetime I've seen a number crises for the American system, which the U.S. has so far managed to muddle its way through. That does not guarantee continued muddling, but I personally am more heartened than I thought I would be by all this resilience around the country. So Deb, will we make it?' Deborah Fallows: 'I'm going to say we'll make it. It's the generations that are coming up--it's their turn to help make this right now." News "Bezos: A CEO Who Can Write" by Jean-Louis Gassée at Monday Note (Medium) - April 29, 2018 Jeff Bezos's Letters to Shareholders "Warren Buffett Says He Was Wrong About Google and Amazon" by David Z. Morris at Fortune - May 6, 2018 "Amazon is starting to scan customers' bodies in the name of online shopping" by Lulu Chang at Fox News - May 7, 2018 Interview with James Fallows and Deborah Fallows Our Towns: A 100,000-mile Journey Into the Heart of America "Where History is Being Made" by David Brooks at The New York Times - February 7, 2018 Books by James Fallows Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language by Deborah Fallows 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 Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Traveler, teller of tales, reviewer of eReaders Interview starts at 15:25 and ends at 41:53 "To be honest, I haven't met one person outside tech nerds like myself that use it [Kindle's X-Ray feature.] I very rarely use it. I kind of go 'Let's see what this is about." I think it takes away from the immersion of reading. If I'm interested in something I'll take a look at it later on, but during the reading process I don't really want to leave." News Jeff Bezos interviewed in Berlin by Mathias Dopfner at Business Insider - April 28, 2018 The Post (2017) at Prime Video Personal History by Katharine Graham Tech Tip "Google's 'Talk to Books' Might Have Just Changed Everything" by Bradley Metrock at Digital Book World - April 15, 2018 Talk to Books Content Amazon's new Prime Book Box program for young readers Interview with Séamus Bellamy Basic Kindle, Paperwhite, and Oasis Kobo Pocket Overdrive for Kobo ReMarkable tablet Seamus Bellamy articles at USA Today's Reviewed site, BoingBoing, Macworld and PCWorld Comments Click here for information about visiting Amazon's headquarters and the spheres in Seattle Next Week's Guest James Fallows and Deborah Fallows, authors of Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America, to be released on May 8, 2018 by Pantheon. (Note: this episode will be released on Wednesday to coincide with the book's release, instead of the usual episode upload on Friday.) 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 Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Longtime Kindle Chronicles listener Interview starts at 18:14 and ends at 43:00 "It was very clear what was missing [in Seattle's Amazon Go store]. There was no Kindle, no Fires, no place to scan and order one. Maybe that's because you can just walk out, and they figure if they're going to lose inventory they want it to be five dollars or under. What was distinctly absent was any Amazon products that you identify with the Amazon brand." News "Inside Jeff Bezos's DC Life" by Ben Wofford at The Washingtonian - April 22, 2018 "Amazon will raise the price of Prime from $99 to $119 in the U.S." by Jason Del Rey at Recode - April 26, 2018 "Total Recall? Amazon's giving Alexa a better memory" by Ry Crist at CNET - April 26, 2018 "Amazon's Next Secret Project Could be Robots That Follow You Around" by Brad Stone and Mark Gurman at Bloomberg - April 23, 2018 Amazon Key deliveries to your car! "Amazon's new Echo Dot Kids Edition comes with a colorful case and parental controls" by Dan Seifert at The Verge - April 25, 2018 Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition - $80 available for pre-order with delivery May "New Kindle Paperwhite 4 will have all new comfortlight system" by Michael Kozlowski at Good e-Reader - April 27, 2018 Tech Tip Share Your Amazon Prime Benefits including Prime Music Interview with Brett McNeill Reformation Presbyterian Church Brett's video of a Fire Phone demonstration on June 18, 2014, in Seattle "The Circle" starring Tom Hanks and Emma Watson (Included with Prime Video) Next Week's Guest Blogger and journalist Séamus Bellamy 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 Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Author of Feast: True Love in and out of the Kitchen Interview starts at 15:50 and ends at 41:48 "It's not that I sought out to be published by Amazon. It was that Amazon happened to be the people who believed in me and my book, and they've been so wonderful to work with. I do feel also that Little A is a tiny imprint within a huge company, so I kind of get the best of both worlds--that personal TLC and the brawn of the marketing and other kinds of reach of Amazon." News Jeff Bezos's 2018 Letter to Shareowners "Jeff Bezos reveals Amazon has 100 million Prime members in letter to shareholders" by Eugene Kim at CNBC - April 18, 2018 David Axelrod interviews Jay Carney, Amazon's senior vice president for public affairs, on The Axe Files podcast - March 7, 2018 Tech Tip "How to build your own Alexa skills with the new Alexa Blueprints" by Chaim Gartenberg at The Verge - April 19, 2018 Amazon Alexa Skills Blueprints Interview with Hannah Howard Feast: True Love in and out of the Kitchen The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison Bennington College MFA in Writing program Literary agent Andrea Somberg Morgan Parker Laura Van der Veer Too Good to Be True by Ben Anastas The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order by Joan Wickersham Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett Fairway Market Dean & DeLuca FreshDirect Content AmazonCrossing's celebration of World Book Day - nine books are available free through April 24, 2018 Next Week's Guest Rev. Brett McNeill, pastor of Reformation Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Olympia, WA, with a first-person tour of the Amazon Go store in Seattle 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 Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Creator of the Kindle Classroom Project Interview starts at 15:29 and ends at 43:19 "I don't think that the Kindle makes reading any more fun, but a lot of students--especially 9th Grade boys who have been turned off of reading, they get a Kindle, and the Number One thing that they do is they bump up that text size, because they don't like it to be so small, so they can really feel like they're achieving as a reader. Even though the book takes the same amount of time to read, they feel they are making more progress through the pages." News Amazon Device Sale for Prime Members Amazon Key Home Kit on sale for up to $140 off Cities eligible for Amazon Key delivery The Essential W. S. Merwin (Paperback) "Apple poaches ex-Amazon, HP executive for growing software team" by Mike Wuerthele at AppleInsider - April 6, 2018 Jon McCormack Linkedin profile "Shhh...Alexa might be listening" by Alex Hern at The Guardian - April 11, 2018 U.S. Patent Application 20170323645 filed June 12, 2017 by Kiran K. Edara of Amazon Technologies Inc "Alexa, Amazon's virtual assistant, coming aboard ambulances" by Alana Levene at The Boston Globe - April 5, 2018 Tech Tip "13 Amazon Echo Hacks to Get the Most Out of Alexa" by Jacob Kleinman at Mental Floss - April 6, 2018 Interview with Mark Isero Click here to donate a Kindle to the Kindle Classroom Project Amazon Allowance The Highlighter Podcast and newsletter Envision Schools Content My notes and highlights at Goodreads for Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande Books in my Night Reading collection (mentioned in Tech Tip about Book Spinning): The Joy of Love: Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia on Love in the Family by Pope Francis Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer by Richard Rohr Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence by Esther Perel Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection by Arthur Conan Doyle My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer by Christian Wiman Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life by Karen Armstrong Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande Next Week's Guest Hannah Howard, author of Feast: True Love in and out of the Kitchen, published on April 1, 2018 by the Little A imprint of Amazon Publishing 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 Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Author of The Punishment She Deserves: A Lynley Novel Interview starts at 12:25 and ends at 36:50 "The late Sue Grafton said something to me that was really helpful on time. I was talking about difficulty I was having in the book with a character. She said to me, 'If you know the question, you do know the answer.' That was really helpful, because what that told me is that if I could articulate what difficulty I was having with a book then buried somewhere in my head was going to be the solution to that problem. That turned out to be absolutely true." News "Penguin Random house exec gets a promotion" by Keith J. Kelly at The New York Post - April 5, 2018 Tech Tips "Alexa Announcements Lets You Broadcast Messages to All Devices" at Love My Echo "Tell the family 'dinner's ready' with Alexa Announcements" by Ry Crist at CNET - April 6, 2018 "How to Donate to Charity Using Alexa" by Emily Price at LifeHacker - April 2, 2018 List of Alexa-supported charities Roav VIVA by Anker - Alexa-enabled 2-port USB car charger - $49.99 at Amazon.com "No More Android Apps on Fire OS" by Dallas Thomas at Android Gadget Hacks - March 26, 2018 "Install Apps from the Play Store Without Gapps or Google Services" by Dallas Thomas at Android Gadget Hacks - February 20, 2018 Interview with Elizabeth George The Punishment She Deserves: A Lynley Novel by Elizabeth George Elizabeth George books at Amazon.com Write Away: One Writer's Approach to the Novel by Elizabeth George WOCA The Source Radio interview with Elizabeth George - March 29, 2018 Doug Miles interview with Elizabeth George - March 27, 2018 Content Rave review in AudioFile Magazine of The Punishment She Deserves audiobook, read by Simon Vance Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos Comments David Peach, host of the LearnSigns video podcast Scribd and Readly Digital Book World, October 2-4 in Nashville Next Week's Guest Mark Isero, founder of the Kindle Classroom Project and author of The Highlighter newsletter and podcast on race, education, and culture. Outro Returning soon? The Edge of the Road 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 Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Co-founder and CEO of Goodreads Interview starts at 14:30 and ends at 36:54 "People read along, and then--for as long as there've been books--after you're done reading, you you go talk about the ideas, the stories, the concepts that you read about. That's actually a good metaphor for Goodreads and Kindle. Kindle is where you read alone. Goodreads is where you go talk about what you read." News "Trump hates Amazon, not Facebook" by Jonathan Swan at Axios - March 28, 2018 "The World's Richest Man Just Lost $10.7 billion as Trump Tweets About Amazon" by Lucinda Shen at Fortune - March 29, 2018 "Here's the controversial tax practice by Amazon that's got Trump so upset" by Tae Kim at CNBC - March 29, 2018 "'Their eyes are on D.C.': Capital area said to have good shot at Amazon HQ2" by Robert McCartney at The Washington Post - January 20, 2018 "If Trump wants to take a shot at Amazon, there's a potential billion-dollar deal staring him right in the face" by Allan Smith at Business Insider - March 29, 2018 Tech Tip Fire HD 8 32 GB with Special Offers- $100 Interview with Otis Chandler Goodreads Otis Chandler's Kindle notes at highlights at Goodreads on Principles: On Life and Work by Ray Dalio My Kindle notes and highlights at Goodreads on Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow "Your Goodreads Friends Are Now Just a Tap Away in Kindle for iPhone and iPad (U.S. Members)" by Jasmine at Goodreads blog - October 23, 2017 Content Shadow Shepherd (Sam Callahan Book 2) by Chad Zunker Closer Than You Know by Brad Parks Book People bookstore in Austin, Texas Next Week's Guest Elizabeth George, author of The Punishment She Deserves 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 Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Readly U.S. Contact Interview starts at 12:48 and ends at 40:51 "Everyone for a long time has been trying to reinvent the magazine experience on digital, or even the newspaper experience on digital. I was one of those who came out and said, 'Why?' What you need to be doing is expanding your brand. People know your brand. Don't think about shoe-horning the magazine or newspaper into this new--whether it was a device, a screen type, a platform, you've got to sit there and think of what do people really want on this platform?" News "Amazon is the most sought-after employer in the U.S." by George Anders at LinkedIn - March 21, 2018 "LinkedIn Top Companies 2018: Where the U.S. wants to work now" by Daniel Roth at LinkedIn - March 21, 2018 Amazon press release on Harris Poll top ranking - March 22, 2018 "Amazon elbows Alphabet aside as second most valuable company" by Richard Waters and Nicole Bullock at The Financial Times - March 20, 2018 "At Mars, Jeff Bezos Hosted Roboticists, Astronauts, Other Brainiacs and Me" by Jack Nicas at The New York Times - March 22, 2018. "Amazon has shut down Liquavista Offices in the Netherlands" by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - March 15, 2018 "How Amazon's Bottomless Appetite Became Corporate America's Nightmare" by Shira Ovide at Bloomberg - March 14, 2018 "Leaked documents show Amazon's TV gamble is paying off strongly" by Alan Martin at alphr - March 16, 2018 "Amazon to open brick-and-mortar bookstore at Park Meadows mall" by Kurt Sevits at The Denver Channel - March 8, 2018 Tech Tip "Alexa Fast Tips Friday: New Alexa Follow Up Mode" at Love My Echo Interview with Blake Pollard Readly Readly Select FAQs Texture you Click here to sign up for a free 30-day trial to Readly Readly TV ad in the UKbloo Content Open Road Integrated Media announces acquisition of US eBook rights to Graham Greene novels Next Week's Guest Otis Chandler, co-founder and CEO of Goodreads 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 Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!