The Kindle Chronicles

Co-founder and chief publishing officer of Unbound Interview starts at 8:56 and ends at 42:25 "It's not so much the elephant in the room. We are the room inside the elephant, if you look at the size that Amazon is growing as an online retailer. That kind of troubles me, because I feel a little bit like when publishing does get round to direct-to-consumer it will already be too late. " News "Amazon Will Be the Fifth Largest Bookstore Chain" by Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly - June 1, 2017 Amazon Fresh "Amazon is going after Walmart with a 45 percent discount on Prime for lower-income shoppers" by Jason Del Rey at Recode - June 6, 2017 Tech Tips "Amazon Unveils New Kindle Highlight and Note System" by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - June 6, 2017 Interview with John Mitchinson John Mitchinson on TKC 213 in 2012 Unbound Unbound co-founders Justin Pollard and Dan Kiernan QI (Quite Interesting), the BBC quiz show Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts Kickstarter and Indiegogo Unbound books by Jonathan Meades and Jonathan Coe Morgan Entrekin, president and publisher of Grove/Atlantic Books, cofounder of the Literary Hub website (Click here for Morgan's appearance on The Kindle Chronicles in May of 2016 at BookExpo America.) Unbound's Backlisted podcast hosted by John Mitchinson and Andy Miller (author of The Year of Reading Dangerously) at SoundCloud and iTunes Unbound Digital books at Amazon.com A Murder of Crows by Ian Skewis The Elegant Art of Falling Apart by Jessica Jones - $10.99 on Kindle, or $7.00 at Unbound (.mobi file download) A Box of Birds by Charles Fernyhough - $7.00 at Unbound Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience compiled by Shaun Usher - $15.39 on Kindle or $22.97 in hardcover at Amazon.com; $15 eBook or $35 special hardback edition at Unbound The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla (Unbound) Tatterdemalion by Sylvia Linsteadt, illustrated by Rima Staines (Unbound) I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon Content "5 Good Summer Reads" by Bill Gates at Gates Notes - May 22, 2017 Book Riot podcast with mention of Gates's 5 Summer reads Next Week's Guest Jeff O'Neal, executive editor and co-founder of Book Riot 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!

Inventor of the Hashtag Interview starts at 12:30 and ends at 44:11 "Your pocket is now your garage, right. If one time you used to buy a car to sort of have in the garage to be like, 'Wow. Look at this. I'm just going to go out and look at my baby.' I think that in a similar way Apple thinks very similarly about computer products. And Amazon, meanwhile, is striking a much more ordinary context, like 'Don't think too hard about technology.' But it should be there to enable your life to be easier, be simpler. " News "Amazon's stock price crosses $1,000 amid Wall Street love fest" by Ángel González at The Seattle Times - May 30, 2017 "The most bullish Amazon analyst on Wall Street thinks the stock will soar another 47% from here" by Akin Oyedele at Business Insider - May 10, 2016 Echo Look - $200 at Amazon.com Tech Tips "Now you can read your Kindle books in Virtual Reality" by Bufo Calvin at I Love My Kindle Interview with Chris Messina "Why Silicon Valley is all wrong about Amazon's Echo Show" by Chris Messina at Medium - May 11, 2017 "Seeing Genius in Negative Space" by Chris Messina at Medium - May 19, 2015 "Introducing Echo Show" video at YouTube - May 9, 2017 Echo Show product page at Amazon Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Flickr "Groups for Twitter; or A Proposal for Twitter Tag Channels" by Chris Messina at FactoryJoe.com - August 25, 2007 Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2017 Steve Jobs in 1980 comparing computers to car models (YouTube) 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 Beneath a Scarlet Sky Interview starts at 3:32 and ends at 42:21 "Not only does the guy [Pino Lella] deserve to be noted for what he did, his story is the story of faith, and the ability to endure, and the ability to go on, and the ability to the best and the worst of life in life. And yet still understand that it's a miracle every day. " News Amazon Fresh delivery in Denver Tech Tips "Amazon's Alexa Calling is Like a Jetsons Version of the Home Phone" by David Pogue (includes video) at Yahoo! Tech - May 19, 2017 Interview with Mark Sullivan Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel The Assisi Underground: The Priests Who Rescued Jews by Alexander Ramati (not available on Kindle) Valchiavenna Ski Area Alberto Ascari Con smania Content Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan (Audible) Guadacanal Diary and Invasion Diary, A Dramatic Firsthand Account of the Allied Invasion of Italy by Richard Tregaskis. The Liberation Trilogy by Rick Atkinson. 1. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy2. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (The Liberation Trilogy Book 2)*3. The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (The Liberation Trilogy Book 3) Next Week's Guest Chris Messina, author of "Why Silicon Valley is all wrong about Amazon's Echo Show" 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 of Tor Labs Interview starts at 16:53 and ends at 40:00 "This story is 14 episodes, and it is about security chief Dakota Prentiss and Matt Salem, who are both ex-military, working at a secret military base that happens to have a flying saucer, an alien, and a mysterious thing called the harp. No one really knows quite what it does. They instantly fall in love with one another, but the hitch is that when you sign up for this gig there is an absolute, ironclad no-fraternization policy. " News "Amazon Echo Silver" on Saturday Night Live (YouTube video) - May 13, 2017 "8 People Test Their Accents on Siri, Echo and Google Home | Wired" (YouTube video) - May 16, 2017 Seattle Times editorial on Amazon's donation of space to Mary's Place homeless shelter - May 14, 2017 "Why Silicon Valley is All Wrong about Amazon's Echo Show" by Chris Messina at Medium - May 11, 2017 Tech Tips "Alexa Calling Has a Major Privacy Flaw" by elise oras at Medium - May 12, 2017 "Amazon says caller blocking for Alexa/Echo is coming, amid customer complaints" by Todd Bishop at GeekWire - May 13, 2017 eReaderIQ Interview with Jennifer Gunnels "Tor Books Launching 'Tor Labs', a New Serialized Fiction Podcast Imprint" - Tor Books press release on May 1, 2017. Mac Rogers Gideon Productions Arrival and Ocean's Eleven Arrival (Stories of Your Life MTI) by Ted Chiang LifeAfter (iTunes) Felix & Paul Studios (VR) Steal the Stars by Nat Cassidy - available for pre-order with delivery on November 7, 2017 Content "Amazon Prime Reading Launches in the UK" by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - May 18, 2017 "Amazon Starts Weekly Bestseller Lists" by Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly - May 18, 2017 Next Week's Guest Mark Sullivan, author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel 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!

Digital and Archival Publishing Manager for The Associated Press Interview starts at 12:51 and ends at 40:01 "I really try to get people to understand that every little basic functionality within e-books that Amazon keeps introducing--whether it's their X-ray feature or Kindle Lending Library or whatever it might be within the e-book world or within the connection with the social-media platform Goodreads--these are all enhancements to your reading experience." News Introducing Echo Show "Amazon's 'Echo Show' gives Alexa the Touchscreen it Needed" by David Pierce at Wired - May 9, 2017 Alexa Calling and Message (Amazon help page) April Hamilton on Alexa's new calling and messaging Jeff Bezos at the Internet Association gala (video) Tech Tips Apple AirPods Interview with Peter Costanzo The Associated Press Content Dwight D. Eisenhower: An Associated Press Biography by Relman Morin Saigon Has Fallen by Peter Arnett My Time with the Kings: A Reporter's Recollections of Martin, Coretta and the Civil Rights Movement by Kathryn Johnson Divided America: An AP Guide to the Fracturing of a Nation edited by Jerry Schwartz Click here for a full list of books published by The Associated Press Under the Scarlet Sky: A Novel by Mark Sullivan Next Week's Guest Jennifer Gunnels, a co-creator of Tor Labs, a new, experimental imprint of Tor Books. Tor Labs's first project will be Steal the Stars, directed by Mac Rogers, whose podcast serial LifeAfter is an amazingly powerful audio drama. 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!

Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research Interview starts at 11:17 and ends at 36:16 "I don't think they [Amazon] really expect the fashion angle to be a big driver of these [Echo Look] devices. They needed a pretext. They needed a reason to put a camera in your home, to see how comfortable you are with that idea, to test whether or not there's a big social outcry about putting cameras in people's homes, whether they can start connecting what they see with what they know... Eventually that kind of visual intelligence will be a very crucial part of how Amazon builds a deeper relationship with you. But they had to start somewhere, and the closet, I think, was a pretty safe place to start." News "Exclusive: This is Amazon's new Echo with a built-in touchscreen" at AFTVnews - May 5, 2017. "The first photo of Amazon's Echo with a touchscreen may have just leaked" by Antonio Villas-Boas at Business Insider - May 5, 2017 "Amazon's touchscreen Echo leaks again, in two colors" by Ashley Carman at The Verge - May 5, 2017 "Amazon Echo with a built-in screen may be on deck next month" by Ben Fox Rubin at CNET - April 27, 2017 "How eBooks lost their shine: 'Kindles now look clunky and unhip'" by Paula Cocozza at The Guardian - April 27, 2017 Book Riot Podcast episode 207 with Jeff O'Neal and Rebecca Joines Schinsky "Get Ready for Amazon Phone Take 2" by Daniel B. Kline at The Motley Fool - May 4, 2017 "Amazon patent shows how Alexa-powered devices could turn into extension phones" by Alan Boyle at GeekWire - May 2, 2017 Small Business Phone Systems - Voice and Data Cabling patent at Free Patents Online Tech Tip "Kindle iOS app gets all-text bold: Can help iPad and iPhone owners, even those with good eyes" by David Rothman at TeleRead - May 2, 2017 Amazon Advertising Preferences page Interview with James McQuivey Echo Look Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation by James McQuivey The Principles of Neural Science, Fifth Edition by Eric Kandel, James Schwartz, Thomas Jessell et al Nuance Communications Comments "This is what fraud looks like in the age of Artificial Intelligence" by Ben Dickson at The Next Web - May 3, 2017 Next Week's Guest Peter Costanzo, digital & archival publishing manager at The Associated Press 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! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of The Doctor Is In: Dr. Ruth on Love, Life and Joie de Vivre Interview starts at 13:00 and ends at 41:17 "This is also my philosophy of life: I talk about a turtle. A turtle stays in one place--it's safe. Nothing can happen. It carries its house on its back. If that turtle wants to move, it has to take a risk. It has to stick its neck out. And I like that image of the turtle." Intro Echo Dot (2nd Generation) Ask My Buddy skill for Alexa News Amazon's first-quarter earnings release - April 27, 2017 "Amazon just turned a profit for the eighth straight quarter" by Jason Del Rey at Recode = April 27, 2017 Introducing Echo Look This Week in Google episode 402 with Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham (via Overcast, cued up to begin playing at discussion of Echo Look) Tech Tips "Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Says 'Star Trek' Inspired Alexa and Echo" by Mike Brown at Inverse - May 18, 2016 Vital Signs: Discovering and Sustaining Your Passion for Life by Gregg Levoy, who was my guest on TKC 335 A Book of American Martyrs: A Novel by Joyce Carol Oates Interview with Dr. Ruth Westheimer DrRuth.com "At Home with Dr. Ruth" - 2013 New York Times video Dr. Ruth's Twitter feed and YouTube Channel The Doctor is In: Dr. Ruth on Love, Life, and Joie de Vivre by Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer Leopold by Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer (and in paperback) Sex for Dummies Dr. Ruth's Sex After 50: Revving Up the Romance, Passion & Excitement! "The Biggest Names in Sex" by Daniel Radosh at The Daily Beast - January 12, 2009 Helen Singer Kaplan (Wikipedia) and New York Times obituary August 19, 1995 Content Subscribe with Amazon Half-price deal on Texture Premium for Prime members Magazines included in Texture Premium subscription Next Week's Guest James McQuivey, vice president and principal analyst at of Forrester Research. Click here for McQuivey's post, "Alexa Will See You Now: Why Echo Has a Camera" 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 Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World Interview starts at 10:33 and ends at 41:35 "Education increasingly wants to measure finite, little bites of stuff, and the digital technology that we are using in our education--and we do have print--is tailored to these quick wins as opposed to a deeper level of learning." Intro My new VR setup: Samsung Galaxy Edge S8 with new Samsung Gear VR + controller News "Amazon continues to grow lead over Google as starting point for online shoppers" by Taylor Soper at GeekWire - January 13, 2017 Scott Galloway bio "How Amazon is Dismantling Retail" - Scott Galloway video - April 17, 2017 Tech Tip How I improved performance on my Amazon Fire HD 8 6th Generation tablet Interview with Naomi S. Baron Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri The Namesake: A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Tom Nichols The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter by David Sax Wonder by R. J. Palacio Content Amazon Publishing's summer-fall 2017 catalog (PDF) Next Week's Guest Dr. Ruth Westheimer, author of The Doctor is In: Dr. Ruth on Love, Life, and Joie de Vivre 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!

Painter, art critic and historian Interview starts at 15:00 and ends at 41:14 "I remember your talking on one of your programs about Jeff Bezos's insisting on a one-second [Alexa] response when his staff said, "We can get this down to three seconds," and he said, "That's not good enough." That makes a huge difference. It shouldn't--we're so impatient, I'm so impatient. But the fact that it is more more conversational and that I don't have to wait and think about the fact that this is a machine processing it, makes it much more real to me." News Jeff Bezos's 2016 Letter to Shareholders - and the 1997 letter (PDF) "Over 550 Amazon Employees Are Pressuring Leadership to Cut Advertising Ties With Breitbart" by Charlie Warzel at BuzzFeed - April 13, 2017 Tech Tips How to connect Amazon Tap to a new wifi network (Amazon help page) Ask My Buddy skill for Alexa Interview with Kesler Woodward Painting in the North, Kes's web site Western States Arts Federation Kes Woodward on TKC 50 - July 1, 2009 iPad Mini 4 Bufo Calvin in VR on TKC 453 - April 7, 2017 Content Audible Range "About" page with email signup Next Week's Guest Naomi S. Baron, author of Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital 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 Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Creator of I Love My Kindle and The Measured Circle Interview starts at 6:14 and ends at 43:10 "It would also be able to know what your preferences are--that's one of the biggest things about what we'll see eventually with Virtual Reality. So for myself as a vegetarian, I could walk down that virtual aisle and have things that were for vegetarians maybe have a green outline on them, so that I could tell what was what." News "Amazon exec steps in as CEO Jeff Bezos's new 'shadow'" by Rachel Lerman at The Seattle Times - March 14, 2017 Jeffrey Helbling on LinkedIn "Amazon will start collecting sales tax nationwide starting April 1st" by Nick Statt at The Verge - March 24, 2017 "Amazon to hire 5,000 remote customer-service reps, part of drive to add 30,000 part-timers" by Angel Gonzales at The Seattle Times - April 6, 2017 Info on Nights & Weekends part-time Customer Service Associate jobs at Amazon Amazon info page for AmazonCash "Amazon allows customers to add cash to their accounts at brick-and-mortar retailers" by Angel Gonzalez at The Seattle Times - April 3, 2017 Tech Tip "Pogue's Basics: Make Amazon Echo tell you when it's transmitting" by David Pogue Interview with Bufo Calvin Bufo's I Love My Kindle blog Bufo's The Measured Circle blog "Videos in VR: Hulu vs. Netflix" By Bufo Calvin at The Measured Circle Samsung Gear VR headset vTime Chimera Reader VR app Oculus Rift VR headset HTC Vive headset The Fourth Transformation: How Augmented Reality & Artificial Intelligence Will Change Everything by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel "Virtually Mike & Nora on Hulu" (YouTube) Play Cardboard apps on Gear VR (Google Play store) SideloadVR for GearVR (Google Play) Content Readly app at Amazon Readly AT&T terms "Readly Launches Exclusive Program with AT&T Thanks" at Crossroads Today - March 28, 2017 Outro "Will Virtual Reality Replace Skype" - April 6, 2017. This is my Medium essay about the interview with Bufo Calvin in vTime. 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!