Editorial Director of Amazon Original Stories Interview starts at 17:46 and ends at 36:41 “We are a publisher within the context of a technology company. And so we’re really eager to work with authors who are world builders who are really interested in applying that type of imagination and creativity beyond the page.” News Land of the Giants podcast with Jason del Rey “Dean Koontz’s Jump to Amazon Publishing: Will Other Authors Follow?” by Porter Anderson at Publishing Perspectives - July 22, 20...
Aug 17, 2019•46 min
April 29, 1929 - August 6, 2019 This week's show is about the passing of my mother and includes a conversation I had with her eight years ago. We titled the interview "Love in a Model A" and you'll hear why in the episode. RIP, Mom. 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 Goo...
Aug 10, 2019•39 min
Author of The Pecan Man Cassie’s web site Amphibian Press YouTube interview with Cassie Selleck- August 6, 2018 The Pecan Man and The Truth About Grace by Cassie Dandridge Selleck 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...
Aug 02, 2019•51 min
Author of The Solar War Interview starts at 15:38 and ends at 46:05 “In The Solar War, in the dark moments of the book, it really becomes about tribes of humans against other tribes of humans, and you wonder who’s going to triumph. And then what happens on the other side?” News All-New Kindle Oasis and leather cover Interview with A. G. Riddle The Long Winter trilogy by A. G. Riddle: Winter World , The Solar War , and The Lost Colony (available for pre-order, to be released on November 5, 2019) ...
Jul 27, 2019•48 min
Stacey Lamberti, left, and Amy Stevens Interviews start at 15:05 and end at 45:57 News “Amazon Prime Day Topped $7 Billion: Internet Retailer” by Annie Gaus at TheStreet - July 18, 2019 Amazon press release on Prime Day results Interviews with beachgoers at Old Orchard Beach, Maine Kim Pilon from Ottawa, Canada: The Islanders: A Novel by Meg Mitchell Moore Alan Crowell from The Villages in Florida and Old Orchard Beach, Maine Books by Paul Doiron Robert Parker’s Author Page at Amazon.com Robert ...
Jul 19, 2019•48 min
Presenter of Digital Book World Sept. 10-12 in Nashville Interview starts at 17:04 and ends at 54:36 “This is a very unique conference. There’s nothing quite like it. It’s time well spent for anybody who touches in any way publishing or technology.” News Chris Walton’s speculations on Prime Day of the future Amazon’s big new employee training program announced Peter Kafka interview with Vimeo CEO Anjali Sud Tech Tip Interview with Bradley Metrock Digital Book World 2019 in Nashville September 10...
Jul 13, 2019•55 min
Author of How Could She: A Novel Interview starts at 17:29 and ends at 45:54 “This book is about female friendship and how devastating and wonderful it can be.” (Photo Copyright by Nina Subin) News “50 Million Americans Are Queuing Up For Amazon Prime Day 2019: What to Expect” by Pamela N. Danziger at Forbes - June 28, 2019 “This is your secret weapon for Amazon Prime Day deals” by Clifford Colby at CNET - July 5, 2019 Amazon Prime Day is July 15 and 16! Interview with Lauren Mechling How Could ...
Jul 06, 2019•47 min
Just a few of Amazon’s Best Books of the Year So Far Interview starts at 12:58 and ends at 45:20 “(Erin Kodicek:) So June is the halfway marker for the year, and it’s also a time when a lot of people are going on vacation. So they’re going to want to leave filling their bags and filling their Kindles with books. If you’re having trouble filling those things with, we are happy to help you. Just visit Amazon.com/bestbookssofar . ” Interview with Chris Schluep and Erin Kodicek Amazon’s Best Books o...
Jun 29, 2019•47 min
Co-founder of N2Kindle Interview starts at 19:21 and ends at 49:24 “The thing that we’re doing is we’re changing the newsletter into a Kindle-friendly format, and then we forward them automatically. It would be a huge hassle to do that by yourself and to do that every morning or for every edition that you want to receive, so that’s the thing that we’re doing in the background.” News Information on Amazon fulfillment center tours Forbes review of all-new Kindle Oasis Comments on new Oasis at redd...
Jun 22, 2019•49 min
Manager of the Amazon Literary Partnership Interview starts at 15:41 and ends at 52:45 “I feel strongly that everyone has a story, and everyone deserves to have the opportunity to tell their story. The rest of us don’t have an obligation to buy that story, but if it’s out in the world and there’s a way for people to find it, that’s doing good work.” News “What exactly is the point of Amazon’s Treasure Truck?” by Kaitlyn Tiffany at Vox - May 28, 2019 “Amazon to Joe Biden: We pay all the taxes we ...
Jun 15, 2019•55 min
Your Host beside the Blue Origin capsule Links Excerpts from Jeff Bezos’s fireside chat at re:MARS on June 6, 2019 AI Today podcast hosted by Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer of Cognilytica Next Week’s Guest Neal Thompson , director of the Amazon Literary Partnership 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...
Jun 07, 2019•53 min
Author of Think Like Amazon: 50 ½ Ideas To Become a Digital Leader Interview starts at 2:38 and ends at 35:46 “I don’t think that part of the story of Amazon and Bezos gets told enough, about how he bet on himself and on the idea of Amazon. They stuck with it when everybody was a naysayer. They stuck with it for a long period of time when the stock was flat and there was no wealth being created. I think it’s really the all-American dream, how Amazon has progressed. I don’t think that story gets ...
Jun 01, 2019•48 min
Amazon’s Head of Product for Kindle Reading Interview starts at 18:29 and ends at 47:37 News “How creepy is your smart speaker” in The Economist - May 11, 2019 Alexa Guard “Amazon Alexa’s New ‘Guard’ Can Help Keep Your Home Safe While You’re Away” by Emily Price at Fortune - May 15, 2019 Interview with Tracy Schultz Upcoming Shows Next Week: John Rossman , author of Think Like Amazon: 50 ½ Ideas to Become a Digital Leader TKC 566 on June 7, 2019: My report from Amazon’s re:MARS conference to be ...
May 25, 2019•49 min
Peter Tighe, my cousin who lives in Austin Interview starts at 11:09 and ends at 38:27 News Amazon updates the Fire 7 Tablet - press release on May 16, 2019 Tech Tip Nadene Laird’s review of the MobiScribe E Ink tablet Interview with Peter Tighe Aira web site “Aira at SXSW” - March 8, 2019 at Aira website 2019 Interactive Innovation Awards Winners at SXSW Aira Pricing Plans “Get Paid to Help the Blind from Home: Aira Seeks Part-Time Agents in San Francisco” at Lighthouse - May 16, 2019 Voice Dre...
May 18, 2019•46 min
Editor of The Amazon Chronicles newsletter Interview starts at 16:32 and ends at 49:27 “You can imagine an Amazon without Alexa that is still very successful, but Alexa is a huge key to Amazon’s future.” Intro Aira glasses for the blind News “Assisted Living Community Gives Every Resident ‘Alexa’ to Help Keep Their Independence” at CBS13 in Sacramento - May 7, 2019 Eskaton communities Echo Dot on sale for $29.99 Amazon.com (regular price $49.99) “Amazon Kindle Paperwhite is back on sale for $40 ...
May 10, 2019•50 min
Author of Keep Going at Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver Dialog starts at 5:33 and ends at 40:34 “So we all like to think that if we could just change our circumstances we’d be more creative. I could just move to Paris, rent a light-filled studio, maybe buy a beret, fall in with a gang of misfits.Then I could really paint my masterpiece. But we know this is wishful thinking, that everything we need to make our good work is here. We just have to pay more attention to it.” News “Amazon plans to...
May 04, 2019•48 min
Graduating senior in mechanical engineering at Saint Louis University Interview starts at 5:57 and ends at 28:32 News “Elizabeth Warren’s really simple case for breaking up big tech” by Zack Beauchamp at Vox - April 22, 2019 “Amazon says its private labels are only 1% of its business, but new data shows some are seeing huge growth” by Dennis Green at Business Insider Amazon earnings report at The Washington Post - April 25, 2019 Interview with Sarah Rock Saint Louis University Fellowship of Cath...
Apr 26, 2019•55 min
Amazon’s Director of Sales & Marketing for Kindle eReaders & Fire Tablets Interview starts at 15:36 and ends at 46:17 “We find that customers--whether it’s our entry Kindle, our Paperwhite, our Oasis program--you can find voracious readers on any of those devices, reading many, many books a month and really enjoying their devices and consistently using them every day. ” News “The Inner Bezos” by Chip Bayers at Wired Magazine - March 1, 1999 Jeff Bezos 2018 Letter to Shareholders Intervie...
Apr 20, 2019•50 min
Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research Interview starts at 12:02 and ends at 52:12 “We used Future Fitness to describe this concept, because we wanted to make it clear that it is not measuring a fixed attribute. This is not a personality trait. In fact, we avoid the word ‘trait’ deliberately, because although there are traits obviously related here, almost everything that we’re measuring is something that you can change--if you want to. If you want to become more future fit you...
Apr 13, 2019•54 min
Author of the Legends of the First Empire and Riyria series Interview starts at 10:01 and ends at 43:57 On writing fantasy: “The world should just build in the background. You should get to know it by experience, not by having to be told in page after page and getting a whole world history, because that’s boring. People tend to skim that kind of stuff. I like to try and write so if people skim they’ll totally ruin the book, and I try to make everything entertaining enough that they won’t want to...
Apr 06, 2019•47 min
Founder and CEO of IMDb Interview starts at 14:54 and ends at 52:50 “In 1990, if you’d have said to me ‘You know the service that you’ve just launched, one day you’ll be able to interact with that by voice with a device that’s this big in your kitchen.’ I’d be like, ‘Really?’ Now it’s kind of like an everyday experience.” News Fire HD 10 tablet on sale for $100 - a price cut of $50 Kindle Voyage - $130 on Amazon’s Woot site ($90 off) “Open road Integrated Media Shows 36% YoY Revenue Growth in Ja...
Mar 30, 2019•54 min
Author of Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad “When I first started out, if you had told me that my books were going to be shelved in Self Help, I would never have believed you. And when I first got started I had no idea there was such a thing as an illustrated gift book. I just didn’t know that those genres existed in publishing. The really fun thing for me about doing this kind of book is that it allows me to be as weird as I want to be in a mainstream format. That is th...
Mar 23, 2019•48 min
The Gaming Hall at South By Southwest On this last of my TKC updates from South By, I will tell you why I'm not going to sell my small stake in Bitcoin any time soon. Also, a tourist's view of the high-energy gaming track at SXSW. Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.
Mar 16, 2019•6 min
Len on the main escalator at the Austin Convention Center Neil Pasricha , director of the Institute for Global Happiness Neil Pasricha’s books at Amazon “Four Ways of Looking at South By Southwest” by Len Edgerly at Medium - March 14, 2019 The Texas Tribune John Hickenlooper and Pete Buttigieg websites CNN Town Hall with Pete Buttegieg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXD8uFU-xgM CNN Town Hall with John Delaney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HxWAL5RDMM “Nothing to Be Written” VR project by th...
Mar 16, 2019•43 min
This is the view from the big escalator at the Austin Convention Center, where I am attending a session about the Hope and Hype of Blockchain. Also in this TKC Extra I share an unusual experience I had yesterday while visiting senior living communities with my cousin Peter, who is blind. Thanks for listening! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player....
Mar 14, 2019•7 min
I plan to upload brief segments each day this week from Austin, where I am attending South By Southwest through Sunday. So much to learn! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.
Mar 12, 2019•5 min
Author of Winter World Interview starts at 17:30 and ends at 43:00 “My books almost always deal with an extinction-level event or the pushing of humanity to the brink at times.” Comments Mark Isero’s Kindle Classroom Project Kindle Direct Publishing eBook Quality Dashboard Interview with A G Riddle A G Riddle’s books at Amazon.com My interview with A G Riddle in July, 2018 on TKC 520 News Amazon to stop selling its Dash buttons - Fast Company and BBC Last-Ditch effort to save NYC Amazon Jobs - T...
Mar 07, 2019•48 min
Len teaching a creative writing class at Belmont Hill School Audio starts at 12:59 and ends at 54:39 News “Amazon Alexa and the Search for the One Perfect Answer” by James Vlahos at Wired - February 18, 2019 Tech Tip “How to hear (and delete) every conversation your Amazon Alexa has recorded” by Natt Garun at The Verge - February 28, 2019 Audio from my presentation at Belmont Hill School Blue Yeti microphone - $103 at Amazon.com Libsyn.com Wattpad Medium MailChimp Tech Tonic podcast with John Th...
Mar 02, 2019•56 min
Executive Director of Two Lions and Amazon Crossing Kids Interview starts at 23:18 and ends at 43:02 “We would really love to discover books from all over the globe, especially from diverse regions that may not be as well-known to a young English readership. We want the list to be dynamic and really showcase every possible language and culture that we’re able to.” News “How New York Lost Amazon” on The Daily podcast - February 21, 2019 “Amazon’s grave HQ2 mistake: The political landscape changed...
Feb 23, 2019•46 min
Author of Early Riser: A Novel Interview starts at 11:47 and ends at 39:00 News Amazon to buy Eero - in Wired and Yahoo Finance Amazon drops plans for HQ2 in New York ( Washington Post ) Tech Tips VoiceBrew podcast on Alexa tips (via Bradley Metrock’s This Week in Voice podcast) Interview with Jasper Fforde Early Riser: A Novel at Amazon.com Early Riser web site and “What’s the book about?” Shades of Grey: A Novel Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker Three epis...
Feb 15, 2019•46 min
