Interview Starts at 16:37

He [Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos] wanted to give me a half an hour–he gave me 45 minutes. And it was really an amazing interview. He was very bright, very warm, very gracious, and you got the sense that he really wanted to do good. That’s the sense you got–of course, still being a brilliant businessman, and those are not mutually exclusive.

Show Notes and Links:

Intro

Belmont Hill School

News

“Amazon is Going to Buy Liquavista” by Nate Hoffelder – January 21, 2013

“Confirmed: Amazon Bought Liquavista — Color Kindle to Follow?” by Nate Hoffelder – May 13, 2013

The Electrowetting Display - January 2, 2013 video of Liquivista display

Liquavista screen demonstrated outdoors - May 18, 2010 video of Liquivista display

“Did Samsung Just Give Amazon a Way to Fight Apple?” by Haydn Shaughnessy at Forbes – May 15, 2013

“U.S. judge sets 2013 trial date for Apple e-book lawsuit” by Basil Katz at Reuters – June 22, 2012

“U.S. Now Paints Apple as ‘Ringmaster’ in Its Lawsuit on E-Book Price-Fixing” by Edward Wyatt and Nick Wingfield in The New York Times - May 14, 2013

Filings at Department of Justice web site related to U.S. v. Apple et al case

Plaintiffs’ Response to Apple’s Pretrial Memorandum of Law (PDF) – filed May 14, 2003 at Department of Justice website

Exhibit F - redacted emails in Apple case (PDF) filed May 15, 20013

“Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) Employee Says Barnes & Noble, Inc. (BKS) NOOK Deal ‘Not Happening’”by David Woodburn at Insider Monkey – May 13, 2013

“Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion” by Erick Eldon and Ingrid Eldon at TechCrunch – May 8, 2013

Tech Tips

AT&T Data plan

Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ with 4G LTE - 32GB with special offers – $399

Interview with Vivienne Roumani

Out of Print web site

The Last Jews of Libya web site

Content 

Suggestions for Spending your 500 Amazon Coins on your Kindle Fire:

Mindmaps by Endare – $3.99 at Apps for Android store

Insight Timer by Spotlight Six Sofware – $1.99 at Apps for Android

Where’s My Water? game by Disney – 99 cents at Apps for Android

Osmos HD by Hemisphere Games – $2.99 at Apps for Android

“Breaking news! Amazon launches Kindle Love Stories podcast” by Joyce Lamb in USA Today – May 12, 2013

Kindle Love Stories podcast web site

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.

The Indy bag by Waterfield -Thanks, Eolake!

Next Week’s Guest

Kevin Franco of Entrhill

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Founder of Alltop, 

author of APE: Author Publisher Entrepreneur – How to Publish a Book

Interview Starts at 13:55

People say, “Well, Guy, if you’re successful and more people become self-publishers there’s going to be more crap out there.” That’s true…. You could make the case that the cave-in started when Gutenberg had a printing press. Up till then you only had scribes working for the Pharaohs and the Pope and rich people. Let’s just face it: that horse is out of the barn, and that horse is procreating already, so you ain’t going to put it back in the barn. So now more people will write, and at least now rather than six editorial committees in New York deciding what’s worth reading, now the crowd decides what’s worth reading.

Show Notes and Links:

Intro

Susan Carlson’s quilts

The Harpswell Inn, founded in 1761

News

Kindle for iOS update - more on accessibility improvements from Peter Tighe in Austin, Texas

“Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase for $1 Billion” by Eric Eldon and Ingred Lunden at Techcrunch – May 8, 2013

“Robbie Bach’s four startup lessons from Xbox and Zune” by Todd Bishop at Geekwire – May 11, 2012

“Amazon Making Smartphone with 3D Screen, Dedicated Audio Streaming Device, WSJ Reports” by Darrell Etherington at TechCrunch – May 9, 2013

Tech Tips

Goodreads blog

The Kindle Chronicles group’s tech support thread at Goodreads

Interview with Guy Kawaski

APE: Author Publisher Entrepreneur - How to Publish a Book by Guy Kawasaki – $9.99 on Kindle

Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions by Guy Kawasaki – $9.99 on Kindle

What the Plus! Google+ for the Rest of Us by Guy Kawasaki – .99 on Kindle

Web site for APE

Entrhill book-sale cards

CreateSpace print on demand by Amazon

If You Want to Write: A Book About Art, Independence, and Spirit by Brenda Ueland – $3.99 on Kindle

Content

Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon – $7.55 on Kindle

Saints Preserve Us! Everything You Need to Know About Every Saint You’ll Ever Need by Sean kelly and Roesmary Rogers – $12.99 on Kindle

Living Dangerously: American Women Who Risked Their Lives for Adventure by Doreen Rappaport – $6.99 on Kindle

Give Her This Day: A Daybook of Women’s Words edited and compiled by Lois Stiles Edgerly – $14.38 at the Google Play store

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.

Next Week’s Guest

Vivienne Roumani, producer-director of the new documentary Out of Print

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New York Times writer at large, former editor of The Times’ Sunday Book Review, and longtime host of The Book Review podcast

Interview Starts at 16:29

When I say, “Well, Mr. Amis, it seems to me this is what your novel does,” and he says, “Well no. That’s exactly what it doesn’t do”–part of me cringes, but I know as a listener I’m thinking, “Now Martin Amis is going to set me straight.” The listener I think empathizes with the host a little bit. One is the surrogate for the listener, not the debating rival of the guest. And so to keep the questions short and simple…let the listener open up whatever direction they want to get. If they say something that makes me sound silly, I probably am silly, and if the listener is deriving something from it, all the better.

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Show Notes and Links:

Intro

My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor – $12.99 on Kindle

Emily Bazelon’s review of My Beloved World in the New York Times Sunday Book Review

News

Jeff Bezos: Boy Billionaire 2000 History Channel documentary (41 minutes)

“Long Live the Book: An Interview with Vivienne Roumani, Director of the Indie Film, ‘Out of Print’” by Loren Kleinman at IndieReader – April 24, 2013

Out of Print trailer and background

Kindle Kids TV Commercial

Tech Tips

Tom Semple’s help with the updated Kindle for iOS app for text to speech

George from Tulsa’s tip on using an iPad charger for Kindle devices

Interview with Sam Tanenhaus

Book Review Podcast

“Pamela Paul Named New York Times Book Review Editor” by David Freedlander in The Daily Beast – April 9, 2013

Whittaker Chambers: A Biography (1997) by Sam Tanenhaus – $15.99 on Kindle

The Death of Conservatism: The Movement and its Consequences (2009) by Sam Tanenhaus – $9.99 on Kindle

Content

The Banks of Certain Rivers: A Novel by Jon Harrison – $2.99 on Kindle (Also available in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library if you have an Amazon Prime Membership)

Option to Kill: A Nathan McBride Novel by Andrew Peterson (Kindle Serial & Kindle Owners’ Lending Library) – $3.99

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.

Next Week’s Guest

Guy Kawasaki, co-author of APE: Author Publisher Entrepreneur-How to Publish a Book

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Member of Amazon’s original Kindle development team

author of Burning the Page: The eBook revolution and the future of reading

Interview Starts at 19:16

I love Amazon in the sense that it really understands building things in what I’ll call an agile way. You start small, and you build and build and build and build. The Kindle doesn’t have to be perfect in 2005 or 2006, but you keep making it more and more perfect over time. And when there’s enough goodness accreted around it, then you say, “Wow, it’s ready for prime time” and you launch.

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Show Notes and Links:

Intro

Opening of RTD W Line from Denver to Golden – Denver Post story April 26, 2013

Tremont Street Subway at Wikipedia

News

“Amazon trims Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite Wi-Fi prices in Canada…” by Emil Protalinski in The Next Web – April 25, 2013

Kindle and Paperwhite at www.amazon.ca

“Kobo Aura HD review: a high-end e-reader with ‘niche’ written all over it” by Brian Heater at engadget – April 23, 2013

Kobo Aura HD web site

Items of Interest Not Mentioned in Podcast

“Senate delays action on Internet sales tax bill” by AP’s Stephen Ohlemacher in The Seattle Times – April 25, 2013

“Internet Sales Taxes Are Inevitable” by Matthew Yglesias in Slate – April 23, 2013

2012 Amazon press release supporting Internet Sales Tax legislation

Amazon’s first-quarter earnings release - April 26, 2013

Tech Tips

How to find authors like other authors at Goodreads – Paul Bowles, for example

Three books I’m currently reading

Kindle for Android gets an update.

Interview with Jason Merkoski

Burning the Page: The eBook Revolution and the Future of Reading by Jason Merkoski – $7.69 on Kindle

Content

The Spider’s House: A Novel by Paul Bowles – $9.78 on Kindle

Bedfellows: A Novel by Bob Garfield – $3.99 on Kindle with Whispersync for Voice ($1.99). Also available as free borrow at Kindle Owners’ Lending Library.

Bob Garfield interviewed by Leonard Lopate on WNYC Radio – December 12, 2012

Where’s the Water? - 99-cent game for Kindle Fire mentioned in Digital Disruption by James McQuivey

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 new Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

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Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard Librarian,

and key visionary for Digital Public Library of America

Interview Starts at 16:16

Now the strategy is not to have a five-year plan with an enormous budget of that sort but rather one that would involve beginning from a core of already digitized collections that we will make available on Thursday [April 18, 2013], and then growing and growing incrementally and then looking for funding as we need it.

Show Notes and Links:

News

“Amazon Wants You to Talk to Your Next Kindle Fire” by Evan Niu at Motley Fool – April 18, 2013

The Motley Fool Money podcast at iTunes

Engadget review of the new Kobo Aura HD dedicated eReader

“Penguin to Drop Apple E-Book Deal to Settle EU Antitrust Probe” by John Paczkowski at All Things D – April 19, 2013

Tech Tips

ReaderRocket site for comparing eReaders

Targus stylus for $9.89

Luzme tracker of eBook price drops

Atavist launches its content creator tool, Creativist, in beta

Interview with Robert Darnton

“Now, With No Further Ado, We Present…the Digital Public Library of America!” by Rebecca J. Rosen at TheAtlantic.com – April 16, 2013

“The National Digital Public Library Is Launched!” by Robert Darnton at The New York Review of Books

Digital Public Library of America

Content

Music of Silence: A Sacred Journey Through the Hours of the Day by Brother David Steindl-Rast and Sharon Lebell; Introduction by Kathleen Norris – $8.69 on Kindle

“Evan Williams’ Medium acquires long-form journalism site Matter” by Laura Hazard Owen at paidContent – April 17, 2013

Digital Public Library of America

Brian Mockenhaupt wins The Atlantic’s $25,000 Michael Kelly award for his Byliner Original, The Living and the Dead, which he talked about on TKC 224 in November, 2012

To get you Free Offer for TKC listeners good through Wednesday April 24th for One Year Lived by Adam Shepard, go to Adam’s website and log in as  slimshep12@gmail.com . Enter the password 123456 .

Not mentioned on podcast but still of note: “Ray Bradbury, Finally Coming to an E-Reader Near You” by Lauren Indvik at Mashable – April 12, 2013; Ray Bradbury’s books available on Kindle

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Upcoming Guests

Jason Merkoski, author of Burning the Page

 Sam Tanenhaus, writer-at-large and former Book Review editor at The New York Times

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Founder and CEO of Goodreads.com

Interview Starts at 9:43

Goodreads is a place today for readers of all platforms, no matter how they read the book–whether it be a Kindle or Nook or a physical book, etc., to share what they thought of the book and find new books. And that’s not going to change. I think a lot of people have been having the misconception that that would change. That’s something that’s just fundamental to Goodreads, and if we changed it, it would just be so negative that we’re not even considering that.

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Show Notes and Links:

News

Goodreads

Tech Tip

ReDigi update

AmazonBasics stylus for $9.89

Interview with Otis Chandler

Tools of Change interview with Chandler (video) – February 13, 2013

BiblioStar.TV interview with Chandler (video) – November 13, 2012

Wikipedia entry for Otis Chandler’s grandfather

Content

Book Review podcast with Sam Tanenhaus and Leslie Kaufman – April 7, 2013

“Thin Reads Wants to Be Like ‘Publishers Weekly’ for E-Book Singles” by Seth Fiegerman at Mashable – April 8, 2013

Thin Reads

Kindle Singles

Byliner

The Atavist

Matter

Comments

Amazon forum thread: Price Dropped Kindle eBooks II

Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories by Charles Bukowski – $2.99 on Kindle

Jon Stewart: Beyond the Moments of Zen by Bruce Watson – $2.99 on Kindle

Price discount on Kindle Fire at amazon.co.uk

Weston Super Mare Pier Fire video

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.

Next Week’s Guest

Robert Darnton, key visionary for the National Digital Public Library, which is scheduled to go live on April 18th.

Please Join the new Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

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Author of Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

Interview Starts at 17:33

Remember we were going to write in our underwear from our homes and do what we wanted and and slack? And then it slowly but surely turned into this kind of poster child for the NASDAQ stock exchange, this way of monitoring people’s employees, making sure–instead of us working in our own time–we’re always on, all the time in real-time availability. Which is the opposite, right? So instead of being smarter online because we’ve gone offline to write stuff and post it, we’re stupid online, because we’re trying to keep up with things in the moment. ”Oh, there’s this post at 8:20; I’ve got to post by 8:31 or the Twitter feed’s going to be gone without me.” And that’s just not taking advantage of what this digital age could be about.

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Show Notes and Links:

News

“The deal Goodreads should’ve struck (hint: it wasn’t with Amazon)” by Craig Mod at PaidContent – March 30, 2013

“BusinessWeek’s billion-dollar boo-boo” by Ryan Chittum at Columbia Journalism Review – March 29, 2013

“Why Didn’t Someone Else Buy Goodreads Before Amazon?” by James McQuivey of Forrester Research – March 29, 2013

Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation by James McQuivey – $5.35 on Kindle

“Amazon purchase of Goodreads stuns book industry” by Alison Flood at The Guardian – April 2, 2013

“The National Digital Public Library Is Launched!” by Robert Darnton at The New York Review of Books

Digital Public Library of America

Tech Tip

Beware of ReDigi!

Kindle Direct Publishing

Interview with Douglas Rushkoff recorded on April 1, 2013

Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now by Douglas Rushkoff – $12.99 on Kindle

Brian Lehrer’s interview with Rushkoff – March 20, 2013

Proceedings (PDF download) of the Unified Field Summit on Art, Science and Spirituality (2002) moderated by Douglas Rushkoff and hosted by the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) at the Aspen Institute

Content

Clutter Rehab: 101 Tips and Tricks to Become an Organization Junkie and Love It! By Laura Wittman – $9.39 on Kindle

Home Organization For Stress Free Living: How To Organize Your Home One Day At A Time And Keep It That Way By Karen Pettine – $2.99 on Kindle

The Busy Mom’s Guide To Stress Free Organization: How To Organize, Clean, And Keep Your Home Stress Free By Brian Night – $2.99 on Kindle

Free “Spring Cleaning apps” for Kindle Fire: Evernote, BillMinder, Grocery IQ, and Remember The Milk

Wait for You by J. Lynn – $2.99 on Kindle

Lesterland:The corruption of Congress and How to End It by Lawrence Lessig – $2.99 on Kindle

Lessig’s TED talk on Lesterland

Rootstrikers.org

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.

Next Week’s Guest

Otis Chandler, founder and CEO of Goodreads

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Business Manager at New York University Press 

Interview Starts at 23:21

In terms of what we’re projecting for the end of ’13, we think we’re going to come in at about 14 percent all-electronic, and the vast majority of that is currently Kindle. Fifty percent of eBook sales are going through Kindle…Nook is actually way down our ladder. Nook is our fifth-best performing ePlatform. This is a lot to do with the nature of the books where we have a lot of library market, and they want PDF or they want straight ePub. I guess Nook just can’t compete with that.

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Show Notes and Links:

News

News release announcing Amazon’s acquisition of Goodreads – March 28, 2013

Otis Chandler’s post about the acquisition

“‘First do no harm’: My interview with Amazon and Goodreads on the future of Goodreads” by Laura Hazard Owen – March 28, 2013

My exchange of Goodreads messages with Otis Chandler in August, 2010

“Amazon Buys Goodreads. Take That, Bookish!” by Jeff Bercovici in Forbes – March 28, 2013

“Rampant Speculation: How Much Did Amazon Pay for Goodreads?” by Kyle Stock at Bloomberg Businessweek” – March 29, 2013

Note: After I recorded the episode, numerous reports appeared sharply challenging Stock’s estimate of a sales price for Goodreads of “somewhere close to, but not quite, $1 billion.” To wit: Business Insider and Kara Swisher, whose sources put the purchase price at between $150 million and $200 million. 

Patrick Brown of Vroman’s Bookstore interviews Otis Chandler in 2009 (?) - audio file.

LibraryThing founder Tim Spalding’s post titled “How to succeed in an Amazon/Goodreads world” - March 28, 2013

Free Goodreads app at Amazon’s Appstore for Android

Tech Tips

Kindle Touch software update to version 5.3.2.1

Kindle Fire (2nd generation) software update to version 10.3.0

Kindle Fire HD 7″ software update to version 7.3.0

Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ software update to version 8.3.0

Worldwide Kindle Support portal

Interview with Tom Helleberg

“Record-Breaking Kickstarter Turns Hamlet Into a Choose-Your-Adventure Epic” by Laura Hudson in Wired – December 20, 2012

“To Be or Not To Be: That is the Adventure” Kickstarter page

Ryan North

Signet Classic Shakespeare Hamlet by William Shakespeare – $4.99 on Kindle

Decision Points by George W. Bush – $13.99 on Kindle

Association of Research Libraries (Tom’s reference to “ARLs” in the interview was to members of this association)

University Press Content Consortium

EBSCO eBooks (formerly netLibrary)

ebrary

Nook

Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide by Henry Jenkins – $9.99 on Kindle

Boulder (CO) Public Library eBrary case study

OverDrive

Content

Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now by Douglas Rushkoff – $12.99 on Kindle

Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture by Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford and Joshua Green – $12.10 on Kindle

Longform Podcast with Joel Lovell, deputy editor of The New York Times Magazine, discussing his profile of the short story writer George Saunders. (If paywall blocks you, try Googling “George Saunders New York Times Magazine.”)

Tenth of December: Stories by George Saunders – $12.99 on Kindle

Amazon expands X-Ray to TV shows

Justified on Amazon Instant Video (free for Prime Members)

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.

Next Week’s Guest

Douglas Rushkoff, author of Present Shock

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Author of Asperger Love: Searching for Romance When You’re Not Wired to Connect

Interview Starts at 22:42

I was so impressed by Jack and Kirsten’s perseverance in trying to explain themselves to each other. Here they have this condition that makes it hard to put yourself in somebody else’s shoes. It makes it hard just to understand in a kind of intuitive way what someone else is thinking. It made me think about my own relationships and how hard it is for all of us to do that. Even those of us who have neurological tools to do that, it’s kind of the quintessential challenge of all relationships, to explain yourself to somebody else and to understand someone else.

 Show Notes and Links:

News

“Ebook Growth Slows for Adult Trade to 21% in Nov.” by Jeremy Greenfield at Digital Book World – March 20, 2013

“Amazon Kindle Shipments expected to drop in March and April” by Sammi Huang at DigiTimes – March 21, 2013

Kindle App available for Blackberry Z10

“Amazon Rumored To Be Working on a $99 7-Inch Kindle Fire HD” by Sarah Perez at TechCrunch – March 20, 2013

Amazon announces “Send to Kindle Button” now in use at The Washington Post, Time, BoingBoing, A Kindle World, and The Kindle Chronicles

Tech Tip

How to use the Send to Kindle Button

Send to Kindle button general information for bloggers

WordPress plug-in for Send to Kindle button

Interview with Amy Harmon

“Asperger Love” by Amy Harmon at Byliner and Amazon

Amy Harmon’s New York Times page

“The DNA Age” 2008 series for which Amy Harmon won a Pulitzer Prize in 2008

Autism Speaks home page

“Navigating Love and Autism” by Amy Harmon in The New York Times (with video clips) - December 26, 2011

New York Times e-singles published with Byliner

Content

“What is the Business of Literature?” by Richard Nash in The Virginia Quarterly Review – Spring, 2013

Douglas Rushkoff interview in The Verge – March 21, 2013

Other Rushkoff interviews during his book tour

Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now by Douglas Rushkoff – $12.99 on Kindle

The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control by Ted Striphas – $11.39 on Kindle

Marginalia survey

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.

Next Week’s Guest

Tom Helleberg, finance manager at NYU Press.

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Interview Starts at 16:01

Mark: We hear that grandfather clock chime from time to time when you are in Denver. Can you tell me a little bit more about that clock?

Len: It’s actually my great-grandfather’s clock. It’s my father’s mother’s father, Col. William B. Skelton, who lived in Lewiston, Maine. It’s a seven-day chiming clock I have to wind up each Sunday. So it bongs the hour, and sometimes it makes its way onto the podcast. It keeps pretty good time. It only loses five or 10 minutes a week.

Show Notes and Links:

News

Jeff Bezos interview with Charlie Rose (video) on November 16, 2012

“Amazon much-fanfared smartphone may be delayed, say sources” by Sammi Huang and Steve Shen in DigiTimes – March 11, 2013

“What Happens to Publishers and Authors If a Used Ebook Market Becomes Legal?” by Jeremy Greenfield in Forbes – March 11, 2013

“Judge Refuses to Shut Down Online Market for Used MP3s” by David Kravets in Wired – February 7, 2013

ReDigi web site

Barnes & Noble comment on generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) names application by Amazon

Author’s Guild (Scott Turow) comment on closed generic TLDs

Amazon’s comments on closed generic TLDs

Tech Tips

How to navigate home page on Kindle Touch and Kindle Paperwhite

My “How to Touch a Kindle Paperwhite” tutorial – October 28, 2012

Len Edgerly Interview by Mark Roberts

Westside church of Christ in Irving, Texas

Pressing On: The Magazine for Growing Christians, available for Kindle subscription for $10 a year

Wayland, Mass.

Belmont Hill School

The Harvard Crimson

The Woonsocket Call

The Providence Journal

The Casper Star-Tribune

Content

“Self-Published Title Hits No. 1 on EBook Best-Seller List for First Time” by Jeremy Greenfield at Digital Book World – March 12, 2013

Wait for You by Jennifer L. Armentrout writing as J. Lynn – $2.99 for Kindle

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach – $7.99 for Kindle

The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins – $5.00 for Kindle

Asperger Love: Searching for Romance When You’re Not Wired to Connect by Amy Harmon – $2.99 for Kindle

Comments

Books by Frederick Forsyth at the Kindle Store

Jawbone JAMBOX Wireless Bluetooth Speaker - $159.24 at Amazon.com

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Thanks to enzo_the_baker and cyberbiker2 for your recent reviews of my podcast at the iTunes Store. You can help spread the word about The Kindle Chronicles by leaving a review at iTunes. Click here and then click the blue “View in iTunes” button. From there, click on “Ratings and Reviews.” Thanks!

Dedication:

I would like to dedicate this episode to Kes Woodward and Dorli McWayne as they prepare to exchange vows on Saturday, March 16th, in the studio in Fairbanks, Alaska, where Kes creates his stunning paintings of birches, landscapes and people.

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President of Nelson Literary Agency, LLC

Literary agent for Hugh Howey, author of Wool

Interview Starts at 11:35

The reader is having a lot of power, which technically they always have had, because anybody that they love and follow and make big–be it Nora Roberts or John Grisham or Nicholas Sparks or Debbie Macomber–obviously that’s sending a signal to publishers that they want to see more material along those lines. But what’s happening now is it’s consolidating into more real time and that a lot of indie authors are having success self-publishing, because for whatever reason–maybe their project didn’t seem mainstream enough or wasn’t filling X, Y, and Z slot or what have you–but then the readers decided, “I really like this; I want more of it.”

Show Notes and Links:

News

“After a Roller-Coaster Ride, Ebook Prices Have Stabilized Somewhat in 2013″ by Jeremy Greenfield at Digital Book World – March 5, 2013

“Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9 Pre-Orders Now Being Accepted in Japan” by Ken Mildenhall at Gadget Insiders – March 5, 2013

March 3, 2013 Self-Published Authors Helping Other Authors blog report of Jamie McGuire’s problem with her Beautiful Disaster novel. And the resolution.

Tech Tips

An enhancement to the Send to Kindle extension for Google Chrome (thanks, Tom Semple)

Amazon’s page on the Chrome extension

“Kindle Fire HD Problems: What Users Complain About Most” by Simon Hill in Digital Trends – March 6, 2013

Simon Hill’s suggestions for alternate third-party email apps for Fire:  K-9 Mail (free), Kaiten Mail (free) or  Enhanced Email ($9.99).

Amazon Appstore for Android

Kristin Nelson Interview

Wall Street Journal story and video on Hugh Howie’s deal with Simon & Schuster – March 7, 2013

Kristin Nelson’s literary agency web site and her blog,  Pub Rants

Wool Omnibus Edition (Wool 1-5) by Hugh Howey – $5.99 on Kindle

Amazon author page for Hugh Howey

Hugh Howey’s guest column in IndieReader about Ridley Scott’s decision to make Wool into a movie

Fifty Shades Trilogy by E L James – $28.99 on Kindle

Bared to You: A Crossfire Novel by Sylvia Day – $9.99 on Kindle

Hugh Howey’s scheduled reading at The Tattered Cover Book Store March 15 at 7:30 p.m.

Content

Wool – Part One by Hugh Howey – free on Kindle

Wool Omnibus Edition by Hugh Howey – $5.99 on Kindle

Works of L.M. Montgomery – Complete Anne of Green Gables (Illustrated)- $2.99 at U.S. Kindle Store

Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life by Gretchen Rubin – $12.99 on Kindle

Gretchn Rubin’s The Happiness Project

“Bookish’s Dirty Little Secret” by Peter Winkler at Huffington Post – February 20, 2013

Bookish website

Comments

“Closing the Book” CBC Ideas podcast on January 31, 2011

“Opening the Book” CBC Ideas podcast on February 25, 2011

dealnews site

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach – $7.99 on 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.

Next Week’s Interview Guest: 

I will be on the other end of the microphone next week, having agreed to a suggestion by long-time listener Mark Roberts of Bedford, Texas, that I use an interview to answer questions about my own experience and perspectives on the Kindle and eBooks instead of the normal interview setup. So Mark, who is the preacher at Westside church of Christ in Irving, Texas, will be asking the questions for TKC 241, and I will do my best to answer them. Mark’s ministry includes an innovative all-digital monthly publication titled Pressing On: The Magazine for Growing Christians, available for Kindle subscription for $10 a year.

You can help spread the word about The Kindle Chronicles by leaving a review at iTunes! Click here and then click the blue “View in iTunes” button. From there, click on “Ratings and Reviews.” Thanks!

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Cory Doctorow at the Harvard Book Store – Photo by Katsoulis Photography

Author of Homeland

Interview Starts at 18:13

You could imagine a million conceptual ways that you could design that feature (eBook updates) so that it doesn’t put people at risk. Such as, having the device poll a server to find out if there are any updates for its files and then notifying the owner of the device when there are updates and allowing the owner to choose and also, for example, saving the old version so the owner could revert if the update turned out to be faulty in some way. If you wanted to maximize the utility of the Kindle to owners instead of maximize the ability to do creepy, Orwellian junk with it that’s how you’d do it.

Show Notes and Links:

News

“Barnes & Noble Rethinks Its Strategy for the Nook” - New York Times article by Leslie Kaufman on February 28, 2013

“Kindle App Updates Demonstrate iOS App Store Flaw” by Jeff Carlson at TidBITS – February 27, 2013

Kindle Paperwhite ad ”Perfect at the Beach”

Amazon Customer Discussion comments about the ad

Tech Tips

How to donate a Kindle to E-Books for Troops

Eolake Stobblehouse’s blog post on adding fonts to your Kindle Paperwhite

More info on fonts procedure at eBook Reader

E-Books for Troops

“On a roll: why E Ink is still the leader in e-paper”by Dr. Guillaume Chansin at Printed Electronics World – Feb 20, 2013

Cory Doctorow Interview

Cory Doctorow’s home page

Cory Doctorow’s listing at Wikipedia

Aaron Swartz’s obituary in The New York Times – January 12, 2013

Boing Boing blog

Homeland by Cory Doctorow – $9.99 on Kindle

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow – $9.99 on Kindle

Lawful interception listing at Wikipedia

Zero-Day exploits - Wikipedia

Barnaby Jack report of vulnerability of implanted heart defibrillators – via The Register.

New York Times account of Amazon’s deletion of Orwell books in 2009

Doctorow video by Steve Davidson of Amazing Stories Magazine at Gibson’s Bookstore in Concord, NH on 2/24/13

Doctorow interviews at the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference in NYC

Content

Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation by James McQuivey – $7.99 on Kindle

Video blurb for Digital Disruption

“Justified” and “The Shield” available at Prime Instant Video – Amazon press release on February 26, 2013

“Justified” Season 1 Pilot episode at Amazon Prime Instant Video

Salon article on January 7, 2013 by Kristopher Jansma on interconnections between Elmore Leonard’s fiction and the “Justified” TV series

New York Times added to Flipboard Kindle Fire app

Wool Omnibus Edition (Wool 1-5) by Hugh Howey – $5.99 on 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.

Next Week’s Interview Guest: 

Denver literary agent Kristin Nelson, whose clients include Hugh Howey.

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Editorial Director, Digital Book World

Interview Starts at 18:15

QED stands for Quality, Excellence, Design and essentially it’s the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval for eBooks and digital book production … Not all eBooks are created the same. Obviously the words are different, and the stories are different, but the formatting is also different. Some of them are formatted beautifully, and they create a great experience for the reader, almost a transparent experience. You don’t think about the formatting, because you’re just reading the book. And then let’s just say some are less than great.

Show Notes and Links:

News

“DRM Lawsuit Filed by Independent Bookstores Against Amazon, ‘Big Six’ Publishers” - Huffington Post 2/20/13

Cory Doctorow’s comment on DRM lawsuit

Average eBook Bestseller prices hit new low - Digital Book World 2/19/13

“Your next Kindle could be embedded in your car”- Gigaom 2/20/13

Tech Tips

Newsweek app at Amazon’s Appstore for Android – $2.99 a month or $29.99 a year

Newsweek Kindle subscription - $2.99 a month

Newsweek digital subscription at Newsweek’s website - $2.99 a month or $24.99 a year

New York Review of Books Kindle/Fire/iPad subscription – $3.49 a month

Jeremy Greenfield Interview

Articles by Jeremy Greenfield at Digital Book World

QED page at Digital Book World

eBook Architects/Firebrand Technologies

Digital Book World home page

Bookish

Finding the Future of Digital Book Publishing: “Interviews With 19 Innovative Ebook Business Leaders Edited by Jeremy Greenfield – $4.61 on Kindle

Content

Sesame Street: Divorce app for Kindle Fire – free

Accessorize Portable Bluetooth Wireless Mini Speaker - $28.99 at Amazon.com

“It’s Beyoncé’s World and We’re Just Living in it” by ZZ Packer in Newsweek – 2/15/13

Decoded by Jay-Z – $14.99 at Kindle Store  (Available for free borrowing at Denver Public Library)

HBO GO app at Appstore for Android

Homeland by Cory Doctorow – $9.99 at the Kindle Store

“Unfriending Big Brother,” by Tom Shippey, a glowing Wall Street Journal review of Homeland – 2/19/13

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow – $9.99 at the Kindle Store

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My Wife, Darlene, and the Yorkie Claire at Ocean Park, Maine

It depends on how you read. I think the basic Kindle is perfect if you don’t need that light. I’m not sure that I would make the change if it wasn’t for the light.

Show Notes and Links:

News

Amazon takes top spot in corporate reputation survey by Harris International - Mashable story.

PDF of highlights from Harris survey

Amazon’s stock price jumps on an analyst’s upward estimate of eBook sales - Reuters story.

Barnes and Noble death spiral? BGR story.

Kindle Coins announcement by Amazon.

Kindle Coins Frequently Asked Questions

Slate comment on Kindle Coins

Kindle for iPad version 3.6 features four different colors for highlights

Nate Hoffelder’s comments on Kindle for iPad update

Tech Tips

groovypost steps to install Adobe Flash on your Kindle Fire HD

Note: Use this link to get the Adobe Flash Player apk file onto your Fire instead of the link included in the groovyPost steps: Flash apk file

Click here to download Dolphin browser to your Fire HD

Click here for free ES File Explorer app at Amazon’s Apps for Android Store

An even better overview of how to install Flash on your Fire HD, from Andrys Basten

To test your Flash Player, try this Flash video titled “Dude Got Swagger.” (Be sure to open it with the Dolphin browser, not Silk.)

Library Extension for Chrome Browser

LibraryExtension.com web site

Imperial Bedrooms (Less Than Zero) by Bret Easton Ellis – $11.99 on Kindle

Darlene Interview

Kindle Paperwhite

Basic $69 Kindle

Donovan Creed novels by John Locke on Kindle

Content

Here’s the Deal, a new Kindle Single by David Leonhardt – $1.99.

Complete Works of L.M. Montgomery with the Complete Anne of Green Gables Books (Illustrated) - available in the U.K. only

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, courtesy of IODA Promonet.

Next Week’s Guest

Jeremy Greenfield, editorial director of Digital Book World, on DBW’s QED certification project for quality eBook formatting.

Missing Interview

I’m sorry that you won’t hear from Mike and Julie Brown of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, during this episode. The interview that I recorded with them on St. John was lost when I left my Olympus LS-10 recorder in our hotel room on the last night, on St. Thomas. So far it hasn’t turned up. You can hear what they had to say about their experience as a Nook-and-Kindle couple in my chat with them a year ago on St. John. And below is a photo of them at Little Maho Bay still reading on their rival devices. The good news is they are still married!

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Photo by Dan Rebert

Author of

The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Survival, Success, Surfing…and Love

Interview Starts at 4:55

Fear is going to be part of all of our lives. But there is a way to relate to it differently and more skillfully, and I know I will be learning about it the rest of my life, and that this book will inform me probably as much when I’m 60 as now.

Show Notes and Links:

Maho Bay Camps, St. John USVI

Jaimal Yogis Interview – January 28, 2013

Fear Project web site

The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Survival, Success, Surfing…and Love – $9.99 at Kindle Store

Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer’s Quest to Find Zen on the Sea – $9.57 at Kindle Store

Jaimal Yogis interviewed by Kathleen Dunn on Wisconsin Public Radio

Jaimal Yogis on NPR

Other Interviews and media coverage of The Fear Project

Charlie Rose Interview with Jeff Bezos – November 16, 2012

(Starts at 25:47)

Click here for the full interview.

Previous Charlie Rose interviews with Jeff Bezos dating back to 1999

Inside the Hangar at Amazon’s Santa Monica Press Conference – September 6, 2012 by Len Edgerly – $2.99 at the Kindle Store

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, courtesy of IODA Promonet.

Next Week’s Interview

“Kindles in Paradise” – a conversation with my wife Darlene about her new Kindle Paperwhite on St. John, USVI

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Vice President for Editorial and Content Innovation

Semi-Linear, creator of the Citia app

Interview Starts at 22:16

What we’re doing at Semi-Linear with our Citia app is partnering with big publishers like HarperCollins, Hachette, and Penguin and saying, “Let us take a crack at some of your interesting and best-selling science and technology titles, and let us come up with a version that gives a reader the chance to navigate for themselves through a shorter version of the book, and if they’re then interested then go on to buy the full version of the book.”

Show Notes and Links:

News

Amazon earnings release - January 29, 2013

The Guardian‘s report on Amazon quarterly earnings

“How Amazon Trained Its Investors to Behave,” Harvard Business Review blog post January 30, 2013 by Justin Fox

“Amazon’s Kindle Fire Burning Up the Android Chart” - Fast Company, January 28, 2013

Amazon.com outage, as reported by Gizmodo

“Barnes & Noble Closures: 110s of Stores To Go According to Top Executive” in Huffington Post – January 30, 2013

Video of Laura Hazard Owen interviewed at Digital Book World conference on future of Barnes & Noble.

Dennis Johnson, co-founder of Melville House, interview with Robin Young on WBUR’s “Here & Now” – February 1, 2013

Melville House publisher website

Tech Tips

Copia

GetJar mobile

kindle.amazon.com

The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise? by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith – $12.99

It’s Not About the Tights: An Owner’s Manual on Bravery by Chris Brogan – $4.95

Peter Meyers Interview

Semi-Linear on LinkedIn

Citia website

“Welcome to Pine Point” by The Goggles

Kindle Fire: The Missing Manual by Peter Meyers – $9.99

Breaking the Page by Peter Meyers – free preview

Previous Kindle Chronicles interviews with Peter Meyers in May, 2011, and February, 2012.

Content

Chief Inspector Gamache mysteries by Louise Penny available at amazon.ca and at amazon.com

Ten Books that Made Bill Gates Think - links go to review of each book by Gates

1. The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence has Declined by Steven Pinker
2. Deng Xiaoping by Ezra Vogel
3. The Quest by Daniel Yergin
4. Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
5. Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
6. One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World? by Gordon Conway
7. A World-Class Education by Vivien Stewart
8. Academically Adrift by Richard Arum & Joshipa Roksa
9. This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff
10. The City that Became Safe: New York’s Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control by Franklin Zimring

Here are the links to Bill Gates-recommended books at the Kindle Store (with Associates coding that will benefit TKC if you purchase them, without adding to the price):

The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence has Declined by Steven Pinker – $9.99

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra Vogel – $23.17 (926 pages!)

The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin

Moonwalking with Einstein:The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer – $9.99

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death and hope in a Mumbai undercity by Katherine Boo – $12.99

One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World? by Gordon Conway – $14.72

A World-Class Education: Learning from International Models of Excellence and Innovation by Vivien Stewart – $14.82

Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses by Richard Arum & Joshipa Roksa – $5.13

This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff – $9.18 (or rental from $4.03)

The City that Became Safe: New York’s Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control by Franklin Zimring – $12.09

Recommended by George from Tulsa: A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life by Steven Kotler  $1.99 Kindle and $4.99 Audible

Amazon press release February 1, 2013 on exclusive rights to Downton Abbey

The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Surfing…and Love by Jaimal Yogis.

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, courtesy of IODA Promonet.

Upcoming Interviews

TKC 236 next week: Jamail Yogis, author of The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Surfing…and Love

TKC 237 on Feb 8: “Kindles in Paradise” – a conversation with my wife Darlene on St. John, USVI, on how she likes her new PaperWhite.

Kindle Fire Sweepstakes

Congratulations to the winner, John Aga. Click here to see Claire choosing his name from the that.

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Vice President / Principal Analyst at Forrester Research

and author of the forthcoming Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation

 Interview Starts at 11:46

Trying to sue your way through into the future has not worked so far, and I think that’s what the book publishers learned. They could very easily have dug in their heels when digital started to finally catch up to them in 2008, but they didn’t. Instead they jumped into the future and attempted as best they could to say “What does my customer really need, and how do I give them more of it?” And that’s really the way you approach digital disruption, regardless of what industry you’re in. And I think book publishers are to be commended for–yes, even though they had a few misgivings–they still jumped into it with both feet in the best interest of the reading public.

Show Notes and Links

News

Amazon press release (1/23/13) announcing that Paperwhite and Kindle now available to customers in Canada

Amazon press release (1/24/13) announcing acquisition of IVONA Software

Macmillan to begin eBook library lending pilot - Publishers Weekly story

OverDrive press release

Tech Tips

Kindle Paperwhite update to 5.3.3

Kindle Software update to version 4.1.1

Copia

GetJar mobile

James McQuivey Interview

James’s blog at Forrester Research

Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation by James McQuivey – $7.99 for Kindle preorder, delivery on 2/26/13

Zeo sleep monitor

Books on disruption by HBS Prof. Clayton Christensen

Content

YouTube video of James Blanco’s Inaugural poem, “One Today”

Los Angeles Times’s coverage of Inaugural poem

Place of Mind chapbook of Richard Blanco’s poem, Kindle edition for $3.99

Guns by Stephen King, a 99-cent Kindle Single

Citia

“What Technology Wants” by Kevin Kelly – Citia free sample at iTunes store for iOS devices

“What Technology Wants” by Kevin Kelly – full Citia app for $9.99 at iTunes store for iOS devices

The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Surfing…and Love by Jaimal Yogis

Comments

Amazon AutoRip for books? - Business Insider story on 1/10/13

An innovative bookstore promo for Kobo

Music

Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named “Well, You Needn’t.” The usual version is “Ra-Monk” by Eval Manigat on the “Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive” CD by Public Transit Recording” CD, courtesy of IODA Promonet.

This week’s outro music: “Well You Needn’t” performed by Jon Sass and Sabine Hasicka for Tuba and Tap Dancing - YouTube video uploaded by louieshotpants

Upcoming Interviews

TKC 235 Next week: Peter Meyers, vice president, editorial & content innovation at Semi-Linear (creator of Citia app)

TKC 236 on Feb. 3 Feb 8: Jamail Yogis, author of The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Surfing…and Love

TKC 237 on Feb 10 Feb 15: “Kindles in Paradise” – a conversation with my wife Darlene on St. John, USVI

Kindle Fire Sweepstakes

Next week I will award my slightly used Kindle Fire 7″ to someone selected at random who leaves feedback about this episode or the podcast in general. You can leave your feedback as a comment on this post or you can email it to me at PodChronicles AT Gmail DOT com. I look forward to hearing from you!

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Start times for interviews:

Jeremy Greenfield – 6:27

Mike Shatzkin – 8:46

Michael Tamblyn (Kobo) – 7:14

Heather Severson – 8:22

Paul Biba – 17:30

Michael David Burleigh (OverDrive) – 24:05

Show Notes and Links:

Digital Book World

Digital Book World conference agenda

My live blog coverage of sessions on the following topics:

Obama campaign digital director Teddy Goff’s presentation on what publishers might learn from the campaign’s digital programs

Authors’ views of publishing, a survey

Hugh Howie, author of the Wool series, and his agent, Kristin Nelson

Jeremy Greenfield, editorial director of Digital Book World

Mike Shatzkin’s Idealog blog

Michael Tamblyn, EVP for content, sales and merchandising at Kobo

American Booksellers Association

The Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass.

Kobo page at Harvard Book Store site

Heather Severson - mercenary writer, gypsy scholar

Paul Biba on Twitter

Paul Biba’s reporting from Digital Book World conference for Good E-reader

Mercy Pilkington’s reporting from the Digital Book World conference for Good E-Reader

Good E-reader home page

Good E-reader launches Indiegogo campaign for HTML5 reading app and eBook cloud storage locker

OverDrive

Laura Hazard Owen’s profile of Inkling, founded by Matt MacInnis

Inkling

Next week’s guest: James McQuivey of Forrester Research

My Guest for TKC 235 on Feb 1: Peter Meyers, vice president for editorial and content innovation at Semi-Linear, creator of Citia

I’d love to hear from you about the live blog posts from DBW or anything else that’s on your mind. You can leave a comment here or email me at PodChronicles AT Gmail Dot Com.

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Author of The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?

Interview Starts at 21:15

Walking through Union Square Market in New York or in an airport, no one comes up to me and says, “I read Free Prize Inside–it increased sales of Clorox by two percent” and then gives me a hug…not even in my dreams. I’m very proud of those books, but these books make people cry. And these books make people change their job or their structure or the way they decide to walk through the world.  And that’s the biggest privilege I think an author can have.

Show Notes and Links:

“Tracking the Price of Ebooks: Average Price of Ebook Best-Sellers in a Two-Month Tailspin” by Jeremy Greenfield at Digital Book World

“What to watch for in 2013″ by Mike Shatzkin

Kindle Touch Software Update 5.3.2

Amazon’s summary page of Kindle Software Updates

Seth Godin’s blog

Books by Seth Godin: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us, Linchpin: Are You Indispensible?, Poke the Box, and The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly

The Domino Project

Seth Godin audio interview by Ed Ryan of Radioink.

John Wall interviews Seth Godin on the Marketing Over Coffee podcast

Other podcasts and interviews with Seth Godin about his new book

Squidoo.com

Amanda Palmer

Free Prize Inside: How to Make a Purple Cow by Seth Godin (2004) – $12.99 on Kindle

Seth Godin’s record-breaking Kickstarter project

Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012 by Seth Godin  (2012) – $16.99 on Kindle

Stop Stealing Dreams (What Is School For?) by Seth Godin - free Kindle download, TEDxYouth talk on video

Collins Dictionnaire Français-Anglais et Grammaire Optimisé pour Kindle - $8.73

Oscars app for Kindle Fire – free from ABC Digital, via A Kindle World blog

Utility Kit app for E Ink Kindles – $1.99

Ron Merten’s e-reader-info blog. Click here for his post about Utility Kit.

Not mentioned on podcast as planned  but a good tip: Kate Harper’s Webinar, “Where Can I Publish My E-Book” for Professional Outdoor Media Association.

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, courtesy of IODA Promonet.

Next week: I will be reporting from Digital Book World Conference + Expo in New York City.

Click here for the conference + expo agenda

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Shantanu Bala, creator of Ebook Glue, a new tool for creating eBooks

Interview Starts at 18:15

A lot of writers are already formatting their content and arranging their content for their blogs and for their websites. To me, it doesn’t really make sense why they should have to re-do that entire process for another device. It really should be an automatic thing, and it’s definitely possible. It just takes a little bit of work in figuring out how to make it happen really well.

Show Notes and Links:

Barnes & Noble’s press release reporting declines in holiday sales

eBook Ninjas podcast Episode 93 with Jeremy Greenfield of Digital Book World

“Amazon Kindle Fire gains Web usage market share on iPad loss” by Steven Musil in CNET – Jan. 2, 2013

“iPad Tablet Web Share Falls 7.1% Following Christmas Holiday” by Chitika Insights – Jan. 2, 1013

Valerie Easton’s interview with Sarah Sara Nelson, editorial director of books and Kindle for Amazon.com

So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading by Sara Nelson – $12.99 on Kindle

Amazon’s Best Books of the Month, selected by Sara Nelson and her team

“Chrome Browser Extension Encourages Amazon Searchers to Head to Their Library” by Matt Enis at Library Journal via Stephen’s Lighthouse and Tom Semple

Library Extension Chrome Extension

“Voice Guide” and “Explore by Touch” Coming to Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD 7″ Early Next Year” - Amazon press release Dec. 6, 2012

Shantanu Bala’s curriculum vitae

“Turning Blogs Into E-Books: Meet the founder of Ebook Glue” by Dan Eldridge in TeleRead

Ebook Glue website

Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing at Arizona State University

University of Copenhagen

Newsweek subscription page

Newsweek App for Android at Amazon

The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise? by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith – $12.99 on 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, courtesy of IODA Promonet.

Next week’s guest: Seth Godin, author of The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?

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(From left) Zach, Garrett, and Kevin Riley

Garrett Riley, creator of A Tech Grab Bag

Interview Starts at 16:21

The great thing (about Kindle FreeTime Unlimited) is that you can set time limits. I know a lot of parents listening to this  agree with this: Once you hand them the device, it’s like it goes into a time warp. You can tell them “set the timer,” but all of that goes out the window. Right now Amazon has the ability to restrict the time. You can set your Kindle Fire to give your kids unlimited reading time but then maybe only a half hour for apps. So they might only get a half hour worth of Netflix or a half hour worth of playing Angry Birds.

Show Notes and Links:

Amazon’s Dec. 27 press release on 2012 holiday sales

ForeSee customer satisfaction survey press release.

PDF of “Holiday Satisfaction with Online Shopping Stagnates” Report by ForeSee

Pew Internet report on jump in eBook reading

The Tech Grab Bag blog and podcast

E-Books for Troops

Kindle FreeTime Unlimited

Throw in the Vowel: Volume 2 and the original Throw in the Towel - $1.99 word games for E Ink Kindles offered by the creator the Me and My Kindle blog

Drawing Pad app – 99 cents at the Apps for Android store

luzme.com - a site for tracking changes in eBook prices

11/22/63 by Stephen King – $3.99 on Kindle.

Comparative eBook prices for 11/22/63 listed by luzme.com

SkyWest Airlines

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, courtesy of IODA Promonet.

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David Lynn, editor of The Kenyon Review

Interview Starts at 18:16

What I realized a couple of years ago about my mission with The Kenyon Review is not to make money but to have the great work we publish read by as many people around the world as possible. And so I use a variety of ways to support the journal–the programs we run, gifts from supporters, subscriptions, all kinds of things–we draw money in a variety of ways in order to support our publishing efforts. I think the main benefit of the Kindle will be to expand the audience, and if there are financial aspects to it, so much the better. So far that hasn’t really materialized, but I’m still hoping it will.

Show Notes and Links:

Macmillan CEO John Sargent’s holiday letter - coverage in Publishers Weekly and paidContent

Wikipedia entry on Macmillan’s owner, Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.

A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron, a Macmillan bestseller priced at $9.99 on Kindle

“E-Reader Market Shrinks Faster Than Many Predicted” by Brian X. Chen in New York Times Bits blog

Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute‘s more optimistic projection of eReader shipments.

“Sorry, but e-readers aren’t dead” by Laura Hazard Owen at paidContent

Electronic Frontier Foundation’s guide to eBook privacy, with chart

Dictionnaire de l’Académie française de 1932-35 (8e édition) - free

Madame Bovary (French Edition) - free

Don Quijote (Spanish Edition) - free

“Gutenberg Gaffe: when someone good does something bad” post by Bufo Calvin at I Love My Kindle

Kindle Fire Review/Rant posted by webmaster at Project Gutenberg

The Kenyon Review

KROnline

Subscribe to The Kenyon Review (Extended Edition) on your Kindle for 99 cents a month.

The Kenyon Review (Free Exclusive Digest Edition)

David Lynn bio at Kenyon College website

The Kenyon Review’s Wikipedia entry

Wikipedia explanation of “Amuse-bouche”

AGNI Online

Doctor Zhivago (Vintage International) by Boris Pasternak, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers

Matter’s successful Kickstarter project

A new source of high-quality journalism covering science and technology: Matter

“Electric Shock” by Cynthia Graber – available at read matter.com for 99 cents

Amazon announces that Kindle Singles are now available at amazon.co.uk

The Revolution Was Televised by Alan Sepinwall ($6.99) is an indie book that made The New York Times’s Michiko Kakutani’s 10 Favorite Books of 2012 list

One Second After by William R. Forstchen – $9.99

Next week’s guest: Garrett Riley, creator of “A Tech Grab Bag” blog and podcast.

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Jeremy Greenfield, editorial director, Digital Book World

 Interview Starts at 17:19

I think publishers right now are focused more on their authors and more on authors in general than they have been in a little while, because they realize that they’re not the only game in town any more. Aside from competing with each other for high-level authors, they’re competing with self-publishing options and middle-of-the-road options–digital-first publishers or publishers that take a smaller cut of the proceeds–so they’re very focused on authors. I think that it’s about getting the best deal for their authors and getting the best deal for themselves, as well as preserving the ecosystem that they’ve developed.

Show Notes and Links:

Jeff Bezos’s patent for smartphone airbag is approved by Patent Office.

Jeff Bezos interview by Charlie Rose on November 16, 2012.

Amazon launches a Kindle store in China. (Reuters)

Apple & Four Publishers settle with EU over eBook Price Fixing, via Digital Book World

Statement by Joaquin Almunia, vice president of European Commission responsible for competition policy, on settlement of  eBook price-fixing lawsuit with Apple, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.

Tablets v. eReaders post by John Paul Titlow at readwrite.com

Amazon announces new Amazon Instant Video app for iPhone and iPod Touch

Mister Roberts on Amazon Instant Video:

Jeremy Greenfield on LinkedIn:

Digital Book World

Digital Book World Conference and Expo 2013

Registration page for DBW Conference and Expo (Enter Promotion Code FWFRIEND for a special discount available to TKC listeners)

The Complete Sherlock Holmes free from Simon & Schuster, with a new introduction by Robert Ryan.

Dead Man’s Land by Robert Ryan (Available for preorder and delivery to your Kindle on January 3, 2013)

Next Week’s Guest: Ron Mertens, creator of the E-Reader-info.com blog based in Israel.

My guest for Christmas week: David Lynn, editor-in-chief of The Kenyon Review.

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Interview starts at 18:53

We publish through the Kindle Singles program, usually. Our stories are all nonfiction. They are between 5,000 and 30,000 words, and they generally cost about $1.99….By nonfiction narrative we usually mean stories that are either some sort of adventure or mystery–some set of characters unraveling a set of events, and they’re real characters and the stories are fact-checked. So these are really like short, nonfiction books.

Show Notes and Links:

Kindle FreeTime Unlimited press release:

Kindle Fire software updates

Kindle FreeTime Unlimited list of content.

“Amazon’s all-you-can-eat kids’ Kindle content should scare competitors” by Laura Hazard Owen in PaidContent.

Amazon’s new Brazil Kindle Store press release

www.amazon.com.br

“Voice Guide” and “Explore by Touch” press release

Atavist.com

Staff bios at Atavist

“Maturing as Publisher and Platform”, a profile of Atavist in The New York Times by David Carr

Lifted by Evan Ratliff

The Lotus Eaters: A Novel by Tatjana Soli

Bloomsbury Books in Ashland, Oregon, Kobo connection

Tattered Cover Book Store, Denver

“New shelf life: Indie bookstores care new niche$” by James Covert in the New York Post

Digital Book World Conference + Expo January 15-17, 2013 at the Hilton New York Hotel.

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Tech Tip - Here are the steps I outlined for my father, 85, who is learning how to print passages he has highlighted on his $69 Kindle in order to create a digital reading journal:  1. On Safari [or any browser], go to kindle.amazon.com and sign in.  2. Click on “Your Highlights” at top of page.  3. Type Command-A or from Edit menu, choose “Select All.”  4. Type Command-C or from Edit menu, choose “Copy.   5. Create a new document in word processor.  6. Click anywhere on the blank page.  7. Type Command-V or from Edit menu, choose “Paste.”  8. Tidy up the page the way you want it to look, deleting extraneous items.  9. Print.

Interview (starts at 13:29) - I spoke on November 28th by phone and Skype with Russ Grandinetti, Amazon’s vice president of Kindle content, about dramatic growth in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library (KOLL, pronounced “coal”) and KDP Select, programs that were launched on November 3, 2011, and December 8, 2011, respectively.

Content - The 4-Hour Chef  by Timothy Ferris and my experience of Immersion Reading with The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and the Audible version recorded by actor Jeremy Lyons.

Other links mentioned - Penguin’s new pilot program for public libraries. Al from Bardstown, KY, has a comment on last week’s interviews. Click here to sign up for the free Kindle Nation Daily Digest newsletter. My four Kindle books are available for free borrowing for Amazon Prime members: Inside the Hangar at Amazon’s Santa Monica Press Conference – September 6, 2011, A Kindle Fan’s Report from the Front Row at Amazon’s NYC Press Conference, A Poet’s Progress at Bennington – Vol. I, and Cold Turkey in Paradise: 12 Days Off the Internet at Maho Bay.

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Tech Tip - You won’t find a Kobo app at Amazon’s Apps for Android store, but if you are willing to stray a little outside the Amazon garden you can get a Kobo app on your Fire.  The key is to allow installation of applications from unknown sources, which sounds ominous, and rightly so. The safest route is to stick with Amazon apps, but the one I’m going to recommend has been reliable in my use of it.  The way you open up your Fire to unknown apps is to go to settings, then device, and then tap on Allow Installation of Applications if it’s not already in the on position.

From there, make sure you are connected to a WiFi network, then open your Fire’s browser and navigate to m.getjar.com. In the search box at the upper right, enter “Getjar” with a capital G. A list will be returned. Look for one titled “GetJar Apps,” a red icon with a big G on it. Tap on the yellow Free button, then tap on the yellow Download button.

In your download list at the upper left of the screen, which you access as if pulling down a window shade from the top, you should see GetJar.apk and download complete. Tap that, then tap on Install.

Go to apps and tap on the Getjar app. In the search box, enter Kobo. In the returned items, you should see Kobo eBooks. Tap on Free, then tap on Download. A progress bar will appear and then an opportunity to tap on Install. You can then open the app and sign in with your Kobo account.  If you already have a Kobo account, as I did, you can create a new one with a different email address, starting the process from the web page of your participating independent bookstore if you want them to receive some benefit when you buy Kobo books.

Just telling you about this process is a way of underlining a point you will hear Neil Strandberg make in the interview. Few eBook readers are going to be willing to go through this level of technical hoops to add another eBook platform to their device. Not to mention the inconvenience of having more than one eBook library. But if you are curious about how the other eBook platforms live, you might enjoy experimenting with the Kobo connection, especially now since they have this new partnership with independent bookstores in the U.S.

Interview (starts at 8:51) - I spoke with Neil Strandberg, director of member technology at the American Booksellers Association, by Skype on November 19th about the ABA’s new partnership with Kobo ebooks. In followup conversations on November 23rd, I visited with Carole Horne, general manager of the Harvard Book Store (interview starts at 29:00), about the Kobo program, and with John Damroth, owner of Planet Records (interview starts at 40:33) about what book stores might learn from the digital revolution in music.

Next Week’s Guest - Russ Grandinetti, Amazon’s Vice President of Kindle Content.

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CORRECTION 11/17/12- Eolake Stobblehouse points out that I probably was not comparing apples with apples in my video comparison of the iPad 3 and the Fire HD 8.9″. He emailed me as follows:

“I was surprised at your report that the movie looked sharper on the Fire than on iPad 3. Because the Fire has a resolution of 1920×1200 pixels, and the iPad has a 2048-by-1536 resolution, slightly higher. I would thus guess that somehow the movie file that you got from Amazon was somehow better than the one Apple served.

“If this is insulting, I apologize, but are you sure you got the HD version in both cases? Maybe Apple’s was 720 lines HD and the Amazon was 1080 lines?

“I’m only saying this because the result is so unexpected.”

Tech Tips - Brett McNeill has a better way to find the total number of locations on the Paperwhite Kindle than the one I offered last week. Also, the $69 basic Kindle‘s virtual keyboard has turned out to be no barrier to enjoyment of the device for at least one 85-year-old user, my father.

Interview (starts at 14:15) - I spoke with Brian Mockenhaupt on the day after Veterans Day this week, to discuss his new Byliner Original, The Living and the Dead: War, Friendship, and the Battles That Never End. It’s a moving account of three friends, Marines deployed in southern Afghanistan, and the dire toll war takes on them and their families. Highly recommended.

Content - I didn’t realize it when I recorded this week’s episode, but the Kindle version of the poet John Ashbery’s Planisphere that I bought in 2010 is no longer available at Amazon.com. Sorry about that. You can check out a paperback version of it here, or you might be interested in his The Tennis Court Oath: A Book of Poems, which is available for Kindle.

Next Week’s Guest - Neil Strandberg, Director of Member Technology at the American Booksellers Association.

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Tech Tips - How to highlight over multiple pages on a Kindle Paperwhite, and a tip from Jean Remple on buying apps for your Kindle Fire in France.

Interview (starts at 7:33) - Richard Mason, the author of History of a Pleasure Seeker, has made a stunning iTunes Store app out of his book. Titled History of a Pleasure Seeker, Volume I: The Gilded Age, the “e-lumination” features narration by Dan Stevens, who plays the part of Matthew Crawley in the Downton Abbey TV series, as well as specially commissioned music, photos, and video answers to readers’ questions. It is not yet available for Android devices such as the Kindle Fire, but Richard’s exploration of this new medium raises intriguing issues that I enjoyed exploring with him. We spoke by Skype between Denver and New York City on November 5th. Mason’s digital startup, Orson & Co., created the app. He also started an organization named after his late sister, the Kay Mason Foundation, which provides scholarships for disadvantaged South African children to attend some of the country’s best schools.

Next Week’s Guest: Brian Mockenhaupt, author of a new Byliner original, The Living and the Dead: War, Friendship, and the Battles that Never End.

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Tech Tips - Bufo Calvin has a creative idea for using FreeTime on the Kindle Fire to set up something like collections for books and other content (scroll down to the update at the end of the post). Or you might try Book Collections, a 2.99-cent app in the Amazon Apps for Android Store. (I think I had the price wrong in the audio.) Also, Jean Remple is happily listening to BBC Radio on his Kindle Fire HD in Paris, thanks to a 99-cent app named Tune In Radio Pro. Highly recommended.

Interview (starts at 21:50) - Chris Brogan, CEO of Human Business Works and the co-author of The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise?, spoke with me by Skype on October 30th, the day after Hurricane Sandy passed to the south of his home in Newburyport, Mass. He is reading only the following three books in the next 12 months: The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle, Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change by Pema Chodron, and You Are Your Own Gym by Mark Lauren. Inspired by this novel experiment and by the quality of The Impact Equation, I have decided to spend time with this book steadily in the coming year, rereading it and letting its wide-ranging insights and tips sink in. Click here for a list of Chris’s other books at Amazon. Other topics mentioned: Greg Pak’s Vision Machine and Net Minds.

Content - History of a Pleasure Seeker, an iOS app by Richard Mason, who will be my guest for the interview next week.

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Tech Tips - The Kindle Fire HD gets updated software, version 7.2.1. “How to Touch a Kindle Paperwhite” will be the title of the video I plan to make soon with tips on using the touch screen. This is an audio run through. Also, some help for Jean Remple with his Kindle Fire HD that is having trouble with Adobe Flash.

Interview (starts at 23:58) - David Risher, CEO and co-founder of Worldreader.org visited with me via Skype on October 23rd with an update on this worthy and ambitious project to bring digital reading to a million kids in the developing world. His last interview on the podcast was in March, 2010, for TKC 88. I expect you will be inspired enough by the Worldreader story to click here in order to make a contribution.

Content - Bond, James Bond, is looking good on the Kindle!

Next Week’s Guest - Chris Brogan, author of The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise?

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Tech Tips - Tom Semple points out a nice refinement of information you will find about titles listed in your “Cloud/Archive” on the Kindle Paperwhite. Tap and hold on any title, and one of the options will be the Book Description at Amazon.com. Marcy McKenzie has created a homemade fix for the Kindle Paperwhite Kindle cover that tends to slip along a slippery surface in landscape mode. Email me at PodChronicles AT Gmail.com if you’d like details. Also, Safari now has a Send to Kindle capability, and Citrix has an app for controlling a Mac or PC from your Kindle Fire.

Interview (starts at 20:19) - Anthropologist Guven Witteveen last year helped the Paine-Gillam-Scott Museum in St. John, Michigan, create a Kindle eBook titled Civil War Memories on Foot and by Horse, 1862-1866, by Civil War veteran Francis W. Redfern. I visited in person with Guven on Wednesday, October 17th, at Schuler Books in Lansing, Michigan, about the project.

Content - Traveling with my on my Kindle are Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box by The Arbinger Institute, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, and The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller.  And the more I use it the more I like Mindmaps by Endare for the Kindle Fire.

Future Guests: David Risher, founder of WorldReader.org, will be my interview guest next week, followed by Chris Brogan, author of The Impact Equation, available for preorder with delivery scheduled for October 25.

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Photo by Betty Scharf

Intro Links – Zeo and the Zeo sleep monitor I have been using for two years, available (with Associates commission for TKC) at Amazon.

News – 1) Jeff Bezos goes to the U.K. and France to bring glad tidings of Kindle Paperwhite and Fire HD availability. Among the media outlets who took note were the BBC and Le Figaro. 2) An E Ink eReader for about $13? It’s the txtbeagle, and it’s coming from Germany by year’s end. Click here for coverage in Engadget.

Tech Tip - It’s been a while since I’ve tried to read a PDF on an E Ink Kindle. On the Kindle Paperwhite, I found it works very well indeed.

Interview (Starts at 20.36) - Stephen Windwalker, creator of Kindle Nation Daily, stopped by the house for a chat on Wednesday, October 10th. We discussed the new lineup of Kindles, KND’s new daily web format, and April Hamilton’s in-depth coverage of the Kindle Fire for KND, among other things.

Content - I took advantage of a day laid low by a cold to read The History of a Pleasure Seeker a beautifully written novel by Richard Mason. I hope to have him on the show soon to discuss an innovative enhanced version of his book. It may look something like an earlier, free version available on iOS devices. I have also been hooked by a Kindle Serial, Option to Kill (A Nathan McBride Novel) by Andrew Peterson.

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Tech Tips – Is your Kindle software up to date? Check here for latest versions for all models. I had practice updating Kindle 2s and Kindle Keyboards this week as I prepared donated Kindles for an E-Books for Troops shipment. Also, Tom Semple shares a handy tip for finding Book Descriptions for titles in your Cloud/Archive.

Interview (Starts at 27:27) - Yael Goldstein Love is Co-Founder and Editorial Director of Plympton, a literary studio offering serialized fiction for digital readers. Plympton created three of the first eight Kindle Serials, in response to an invitation from Amazon. The Plympton titles are Hacker Mom by Austen Rachlis, Love is Strong as Death by Carolyn Nash, and The Many Lives of Lilith Lane by E.V. Anderson. My interview with Yael took place in Cambridge on October 1, 2012. Since then, Plympton’s Kickstarter project has blown past its goal of raising $30,000 and you can still participate in supporting this worthy initiative aimed at reviving serialized fiction for the digital age. People and topics discussed in the interview: Byliner, The Atavist, Plympton Co-Founder and President Jennifer 8. Lee, Kindle Singles editor David Blum, Amazon Publishing VP Jeff Belle, and The Pickwick Papers. 

Listener Survey - I want to thank those of you who filled out the four-question survey I posted last week. There is still time to add your answers here.

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Tech Tip - Q&A on WhisperSync for Voice and Immersion Reading. More on Bluetooth keyboard problems with Kindle Fire HD. How to use the free Pulse News app to subscribe to the RSS feed of The Kindle Chronicles blog on your Kindle Fire.

Interview (Starts at 20:40) - James McQuivey, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, tells where Amazon’s latest devices are likely to cause the most disruption.

Content - The Song of Achilles, a novel by Madeline Miller, is a good example of how the traditional publishing apparatus does bring excellent books into the world, in this case after 10 years of writing and revision. Click here for the Kindle version with audio/video extras playable only on iOS devices.

Next week’s interview guest - Yael Goldstein Love, cofounder of Plympton, creator of serialized fiction for digital readers.

Other links mentioned - Computer Science 50 (CS50), Harvard’s most popular undergraduate course, soon to be available at edX.org. If you have purchased and read my new $2.99 Kindle article, Inside the Hangar at Amazon’s Santa Monica Press Conference - thank you! And thanks to those who have left reviews. Please consider adding one if you have not already done so. Click here to sign up for a Kindle Nation Daily Digest free email subscription which includes my weekly Contributing Editor’s column in the KND Weekender each Saturday.

Listener Survey - Please click here to take quick, four-question survey that will help me make sure The Kindle Chronicles continues to meet your needs.

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Tech Tips - Via Bufo Calvin and others, here is how to make a screenshot with your Kindle Fire HD: hold down the lower-volume button and the power button at the same time for a second, until you hear a camera-like click. Also, Bob Anderson’s no-touch Touch tip for turning the page.

Interview (Starts at 26:24) - Jeff Belle, Vice President of Amazon Publishing, reports the sale of 10,000 Kindle Serials during the first week since the program was launched and describes what he hopes will take place between authors and readers in “virtual-watercooler” discussions as the serials unfold.

Content - Linda Hopkins notes that you have to be a member of Audible.com in order to take advantage of the free test pairs of Kindle/Audible books using Whispersync for Voice. My eBook article, Inside the Hangar at Amazon’s Santa Monica Press Conference is available at the Kindle Store for $2.99. Thanks to all of you who helped edit and proofread it!

Next Week’s Guest - James McQuivey of Forrester Research.

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Tech Tips - An update of the Kindle for Mac app, new software update for the Kindle Keyboard, and how to change the default search engine from Bing on your Kindle Fire HD.

Interview (starts at 18:27) - I returned to the US Headquarters of E Ink Holdings on September 11 to visit with Sri Peruvemba, chief marketing officer, nearly four years since the last time he and I met in person for the interview in TKC 18. Much has changed, but E Ink still sets the standard for technology driving the eBook Revolution.

Content - Oral Literature in Africa  by Ruth H. Finnegan is available as a free download from UnGlue.it, the startup’s first completed pledge drive to raise funds in order to “unglue” books for Creative Commons distribution. Amazon is offering 22 free Kindle/Audible titles that you can try out as a test of the new WhisperSync for Voice.  If you would like to help proofread and offer feedback on the working draft of my upcoming eBook article, Inside the Hanger at Amazon’s Santa Monica Press Conference, please send me an email at PodChronicles AT Gmail DOT com with “Proofreading” in the subject line. I will email you back .doc and .mobi versions of my draft. Thanks!

Next Week’s Guest - Jeff Belle, vice president of Amazon Publishing, which publishes Amazon’s latest invention in publishing, Kindle Serials.

And a Hat Tip from the Kindle Chronicles to the E Ink team that enabled the launch of the Kindle Paperwhite reader:

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Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ 4G for $499, ships November 20.

Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ for $299, ships November 20.

Kindle Fire HD 7″ for $199, ships September 14.

Kindle Paperwhite 3G with Special Offers for $179, ships October 1.

Kindle Paperwhite with Special Offiers or $119, ships October 1.

Click here for full video of Jeff Bezos’s presentation at the press conference.

I want to thank Garrett Riley for accompanying me to the event as tech assistant and helping me organize coverage of the press conference. You will find his blog post about it here, with some great photos.

And thanks to everyone who has contributed to the podcast to help defray costs of my trip to Santa Monica for the Amazon announcement. If you’d like to help out and make a donation through the PayPal link at the upper right of the page here by the end of the day Friday September 7th, you will receive a free advance copy of the eBook that I plan to write about the new products and Amazon’s latest bold strokes in business strategy.

It’s going to take a while for the full extent of Amazon’s latest inventions to sink in, but I hope you will enjoy this report from Santa Monica to get a feel for Day One of the next generation of Kindles.

My thanks to Brad Stone of Bloomberg Businessweek, Andrys Basten of A Kindle World, and the Amazon execs and staffers who took time out after the formal presentations for interviews.

CORRECTION: I misunderstood Jay Marine’s description of the Kindle Paperwhite’s WhisperSync for Voice feature and assumed you can listen to an Audible book on the Paperwhite or hear Text to Speech. This turns out not to be the case. There are no speakers or a headphone port on the Paperwhite. What the new Audible sync feature does is to enable you to listen to an Audible book on another device, and then pick up the reading on your Kindle Whispernet as text only.

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Tech Tips – How to use Instapaper to create a custom collection of web clippings as a handy eBook for your Kindle(s). Also, an update for Kindle for iPad with Rapid Highlighting.

Interview (starts at 25:23) - I spoke with John Mitchinson, co-founder of Unbound, via Skype on August 24th.

Content – Art Space Tokyo: An Intimate Guide to the Tokyo Art World by Craig Mod and Ashley Rawlings is a gorgeous example of eBook formatting, as detailed in Craig’s blog. Also, Amazon Publishing acquires 1,000 titles at auction from Dorchester Publishing.

Next Week: I’m not sure exactly whom I will talk with at Amazon’s press conference in Santa Monica, but I’m sure you will find next week’s show worth listening to. My plan is to upload TKC 214 by Thursday night, while the news is fresh. On Friday I hope to draft a longform account of the new products and the event, with an eye to providing another eBook title for your enjoyment. If you’d like to get into the mood, you might want to buy a copy of my account of the press conference last year. Thanks!

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Tech Tips - 1) If you want to transform your physical books to digital, with no going back, you might want to check out 1DollarScan. 2) Bufo Calvin describes the process of updating his Love Your Kindle Fire eBook.

Interview (starts at 22:34) - I spoke with Glenn Thrush, senior White House Correspondent at Politico, on August 22nd from Washington, D.C. His new eBook, Obama’s Last Stand, was published this week and represents a continuing experiment by Politico in providing long-form campaign coverage before the election. The prior two titles in their Playbook 2012 series are The Right Fights Back and Inside the Circus: Romney, Santorum and the GOP Race, both written by Evan Thomas and Mike Allen.

Content - Digital Book World creates a weekly list of eBook bestsellers. Click here for coverage by Laura Hazard Owen in PaidContent.

Next Week’s Guest - John Mitchinson, founder and CEO of Unbound, an experiment in crowdsourcing the connection between authors and readers.

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Tech Tips – The new Send to Kindle extension for the Google Chrome browser works great. Just be sure you have Chrome Version 17 or higher before installing it. Also, a column by Mitch Lipka in The Boston Globe explains what to do if you mistakenly send a Kindle gift book to the wrong e-mail address.

Interview (Starts at 19:43) - Gigi Whiteside is an assistive technology specialist for the Fulton County school district, which has approximately 92,000 students in central Georgia.  Her column about how Kindles in her classrooms have helped slow and nonreaders was featured at the Amazon.com landing page recently, so I was interested in tracking her down to hear more of the story. I spoke with her by Skype on Wednesday, August 15th.

Content - Open Road Integrated Media has a nice presentation of late-summer reading to consider, organized like a way-back time machine. A couple that caught my eye were Six Days of the Condor by James Grady and Marlon Brando: A Biography by Patricia Bosworth. Also, Amazon Instant Video on the iPad gets an update adding a useful search function.

Next Week’s Guest: Glenn Thrush, White House correspondent for POLITICO and author of Obama’s Last Stand, the third in a series of groundbreaking Kindle Singles covering the Presidential campaign.

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News - By the time you hear this episode, we may have already heard an official Amazon announcement of new Kindles, but meanwhile here are some other good stories: 1) New York Times Book Review Editor Sam Tanenhaus metaphorically falls off his chair during the July 22nd Book Review podcast in the face of news that U.S. publishers sold more adult fiction eBooks last year than print copies. 2) unglue.it is looking for a new way to process pledges and payments after Amazon, citing regulatory obligations, notifies the startup it can no longer do the processing. Founder Eric Hellman‘s blog post is here, and Laura Hazard Owen’s story is here. unglue.it’s first successful project, Oral Literature in Africa, is still moving forward toward free eBook distribution. 3) E Ink Holdings announces another quarter of net losses. Click here for Nate Hoffelder’s post.

Tech Tip - Here’s a handy place to get help in several languages for all the Kindle devices: Kindle.com/support . And yes, you really can keep a Kindle book for seven days and then return it for a full refund. Not so with a Nook eBook.

Interview (Starts at 18:31) - Eric Loss completed his solo circumnavigation of the world on July 22nd, and I spoke with him this week on August 8 about his amazing adventure. One can glean numerous morals from his story, from “Don’t toss your satellite phone onto the screen of your Kindle” to how to stay sane during months of solitude. Click here for videos of a gale. My first chat with Eric before he embarked on his voyage is here, and our conversation in January during an unplanned layover repairs in Chile is here.  In a separate post, I will share with you Eric’s long list of great books that he read, mostly on his Kindles, during his trip.

Content - At the Professional Outdoor Media Association (POMA) annual conference last week in Tunica, Mississippi, I met a prolific outdoor writer named John E. Phillips who is taking full advantage of the Kindle platform. One of particular interest to me is Courage: Stories of Hometown Heroes. Fellow workshop presenter Tovar Cerulli spoke about his journey from anti-hunter vegetarian to game-eating hunter, artfully chronicled in The Mindful Carnivore: A Vegetarian’s Hunt for Sustenance. Highly recommended.  For Kindle Fire content, be sure to check out the new, free Spotify music app.

Next Week’s Interview Guest: Gigi Whiteside, an English teacher in Alpharetta, Georgia, who is using Kindles to help struggling readers fall in love with books.

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Tech Tips - Why you might, from time to time, find that a book published through Kindle Direct Publishing has a smaller font than you’re used to. Also, an update on a persistent annoyance in my Kindle Fire’s WiFi connection. If you’ve experienced multiple listings of the same WiFi address on your Fire, please let me know at PodCharonicles AT Gmail DOT Com.

Interview (starts at 9:14) – On July 27th in Seattle, I interviewed Nancy Pearl, creator of the Book Lust Rediscoveries series introduced by Amazon in January. She hosts a monthly TV show and is a regular guest on NPR’s Morning Edition.   A portion of the proceeds of the Book Lust series is benefiting the Nancy Pearl Endowment for Public Librarianship at the University of Washington’s Information School.

Content – Here are books mentioned by Nancy Pearl in the interview: A Gay and Melancholy Sound by Merle Miller; After Life by Rhian Ellis; Fool by Frederick G. Dillon; The Last Night at the Ritz by Elizabeth Savage; The Cowboy and the Cossack by Clair Huffaker; The Girls from the Five Great Valleys by Elizabeth Savage; A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire (Book Five) by George R. R. Martin, The Fear Artist by Timothy Hallinan, and Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan by Rajiv Chandrasekaran. One I mentioned is George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis.

Free Kindle Fire App: Pocket (Formerly Read It Later).

Next Week’s Guest: Eric Loss, back home after his Kindle-enhanced solo circumnavigation of the globe.

Other Links Mentioned: Click here to have The Kindle Chronicles blog posts delivered wirelessly to your Kindle for 99 cents a month and here to sign up for a free Daily Digest email subscription from Kindle Nation Daily that includes the KND Weekender email each Saturday. The Weekender is the first place where my KND Contributing Editor’s column appears each week, based on my Kindle Chronicles interview for the week.

I want express my thanks to Pete Kraft at Splash Media for creating the handy navigation buttons that you now see at the top of the Kindle Chronicles web site. Well done!

I’m looking forward to my trip to Tunica, Mississippi, later this week to present workshops on eBook formatting and podcasting at the Professional Outdoor Media Association’s 2012 business conference. For the eBook session, I will be relying on Kate Harper‘s updated and expanded How to Publish and Sell Your Article on the Kindle: 12 Tips for Short Documents. 

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Tech Tips - All about X-Ray on the Kindle Touch, including a video clip from the Amazon press conference last fall. Also, how to sideload a photo from your computer to your Kindle Fire.

Interview (starts at 11:45) - On the very day of this podcast’s fourth anniversary, I had the chance yesterday, July 26th, to interview Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, at the company’s headquarters here in Seattle. He told me what the biggest surprise has been in the seven years since early design work began for the Kindle, and he explained why he thinks there will always be a role for purpose-built reading devices. Plus: what’s up with Stephen King, why missionaries make better products than mercenaries, and much more.

Content - Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust Rediscoveries series is a heart-warming project for anyone who loves books, and you’ll hear all about it in next week’s double-length interview with Nancy which I just finished recording here at the hotel in Seattle. Meanwhile, I hope you will check out the first two books of the series, now available for purchase and delivery–A Gay and Melancholy Sound by Merle Miller and After Life by Rhian Ellis–as well as these two that you can pre-order for delivery later this year: Fool by Frederick G. Dillon and The Last Night at the Ritz by Elizabeth Savage. On my Kindle Fire, I’m enjoying His Girl Friday starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell.

My thanks to all my listeners whose support and feedback have made doing this podcast every week for four years an amazing journey. And thanks to the team at Amazon, and their happy dogs–you’ll find out why in my intro to the interview–for daring to be misunderstood long enough to change the way we read.

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News - 1) My comparison of Google’s Nexus 7 with the Kindle Fire for reading books 2) GeekBeat.TV’s John P has a fun and smart video comparison of the Nexus 7, Fire, and Nook Tablet. 2) Jeremy Greenfield reports on a doubling of eBook revenue in 2011 versus 2010.

Tech Tips - Check out ITTT.com for automating tasks like sending each Kindle Daily Deal to your email. Ebook Friendly has more. Also, some fine points on using notes and highlights on your Kindle Touch.

Interview (Starts at 24:05) - I spoke with Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild (From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail), on Tuesday, July 17th, about her savage self, getting a call from Oprah Winfrey, the metaphor of hiking, and why she might take a Kindle on her next long trip. Be sure to check out Oprah’s two-hour interview with Cheryl, which will premiere on “Super Soul Sunday” July 22nd at 11 a.m. ET/PT on the Oprah Winfrey Network and will simulcast online worldwide via Oprah.com and Facebook.com/OWNtv.

Content - Highly recommended: Cheryl Strayed’s novel, Torch, and her newest book, a collection of personal essays in the form of advice columns, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar. Also, I found an excellent, free mindmapping app for the Kindle Fire, Mindjet for Android.

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Tech Tips - Bob Cope suggests a stylus for better typing on my Kindle Touch. This one works great! SendToReader gets an update, via Kindle World. Also mentioned: The Readability app for Kindle Fire and the Send to Kindle app for Mac and PC.

Interview (Starts at 26:20)- On July 10th, I spoke by Skype with Jeremy Greenfield, editorial director of Digital Book World. We discussed his blog post, “Commenting on the Publishing Wars of 2012,” which referenced an earlier DBW blog post by Bob Mayer, and what’s ahead for the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Apple and five defendant publishers.

Content - OverDrive makes it easy to find its most borrowed books worldwide with this list containing links to public libraries. Two Kindle Fire apps that may help with your summer entertaining duties: Grill-It! and Domino’s Pizza USA.

Next Week’s Interview Guest: Cheryl Strayed, author of the first book chosen for Oprah’s Book Club 2.0. The title is Wild (From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail).

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Tech Tips – I am frustrated with trying to type notes on my Kindle Touch. If you have learned how to use the onscreen keyboard with proficiency, please pass along your tips to me at PodChronicles AT gmail DOT com. Thanks! Also, I recommend Stitcher Radio for listening to podcasts on your Kindle Fire. For iOS, I recommend Instacast and Apple’s new Podcasts app.

Interview (starts at 10:57) - Marshall Poe, a professor of history at the University of Iowa, is creator and editor-in-chief of New Books Network, a consortium of podcasts in which scholars interview authors of scholarly books. This is a good way to find content for your Kindle that’s off the beaten path and often rewarding. Poe wrote an essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education in March titled “Every Monograph a Movie” in which he urged scholars to translate written history into video history. Kindle book mentioned: Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination During the 1934 Tour of Japan by Robert K. Fitts.

Content - If you’d like to join my Kindle Chronicles Book Club experiment, please email me at PodChronicles AT Gmail DOT com with your kindle.amazon.com profile name and, if you want to, begin reading A Gay and Melancholy Sound by Merle Miller, leaving notes and highlights that the rest of us in the club can see.  Also, I expect to have an interview in two weeks with Cheryl Stayed, author of the first book chosen for Oprah’s Book Club 2.0, so you might want to start reading that one. The title is Wild (From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail). 

Other Links Mentioned: A hotel in England is replacing the Gideon Bible in each of its rooms with a Kindle preloaded with the Bible. Listener Lauren from Ft. Meyers, Florida, has posted a video extolling a key benefit of the Kindle Keyboard.

Next Week’s Interview Guest - Jeremy Greenfield, editorial director of Digital Book World, talking about the Department of Justice’s anti-trust lawsuit against Apple and the defendant publishers.

Note: If you’d like to have the weekly podcast show notes and other posts from The Kindle Chronicles delivered directly to your Kindle, please consider a subscription for only 99 cents a month after a two-week free trial!

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News - 1) The Wall Street Journal reports, “Your eBooks are Reading You.” Link mentioned: Coliloquy. 2) Boy Genius quotes a source who has handled both of the new Kindle Fire models. 3) PC World thinks about what Google is up to with the Nexus 7.

Tech Tip - How to send an author a question right from your Kindle. Problems on the Kindle Fire with the HBO Go app.

Interview (Starts at 22:34) – I spoke with Christian Hupfeld, creator of eReaderIQ, on June 26th. Links mentioned: Book Basset, Kindle Nation Daily’s eBookTracker, Luzme, eBook Price Drops, zooLert, and Edward Tufte.

Content - A Byliner Original for $1.99, Everybody’s Reading Bastard by Nick Hornby. The Kindle Chronicles Interviews for Kindle Nation Daily – Vol. 1.  A 99-cent game I like for the Fire: Cut the Rope.

Next Week’s Guest: Marshall Poe, editor-in-chief of New Books Network.

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Tech Tips - How to trim what’s stored on your Kindle Fire, if your memory is full. Also, how to sign up for the brand-new Kindle Chronicles Book Club (KCBC). Short version: set up your profile at kindle.amazon.com and send me an email at PodChronicles at Gmail Dot com with your profile name.  Follow me (profile name: Len Edgerly), and buy the first book we’ll read for KCBC, A Gay and Melancholy Sound by Merle Miller. It costs $5.99 at the Kindle Store but you can also borrow it for free if you have a Prime membership. Miller’s novel was the first pick by Nancy Pearl in her Book Lust Rediscoveries partnership with Amazon.

Interview (starts at 22:42) - Kevin Eagan, creator of the Critical Margins blog, spoke with me by Skype on June 19th about social reading, Goodreads, Imagine by Jonah Lehrer, what he misses most about print books, and more.

Content - Throw Me a Vowel, a terrific word game for $1.99, is now available for the Kindle Touch. Flipboardis now available for the Kindle Fire. Kinder Kindle donates Amazon Associates proceeds to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF). Eolake Stobblehouse recommends How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler, but Simon & Schuster has set the price at $13.99. I used eReaderIQ to alert me if the price falls to $9.99. Meanwhile, I’ll wait.

The Kindle Chronicles is now available for Kindle subscription, delivered wirelessly to your Kindle device for 99 cents a month. You will receive podcast show notes each week, plus four written posts each week with information not included in the podcast. And if you are subscribing, please consider leaving a review and ranking at Amazon! Thanks!

Free Webinar - Click here to register for a free webinar that I will give on Wednesday, June 27th from 3 to 4 p.m. EDT for the Professional Outdoor Media Association. The topic will be how you can publish articles in the Kindle Store, and I will be relying heavily on Kate Harper’s essential 99-cent guide, How to Publish and Sell Your Article on the Kindle: 12 Steps for Short Documents. Space is limited, so if you want to participate, please register soon!

Next Week’s Guest - Christian Westergaard Hupfeld, creator of eReaderIQ.

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Tech Tip – Some tips on using tools at kindle.amazon.com and an invitation to follow my notes and highlights. Please e-mail me at PodChronicles AT Gmail dot Com with your profile and books we share, to help explore social reading on the Kindle.

Interview (starts at 15:37) – I interviewed author Theresa Ragan on June 6th at BookExpo America, where she was a star of the Kindle Direct Publishing/Create Space booth. Theresa is a great example of how hard work and good writing can pay off for self-publishers, and she has also signed a deal with Amazon mystery imprint Thomas & Mercer for her next Lizzy Gardner book. Click here for her self-published Kindle titles, which have sold nearly 300,000 copies in a little over a year.

Content – Amazon Publishing’s impressive 2012 Fall Catalog, including upcoming titles from AmazonCrossing and Thomas & Mercer. Also, my rave review of Abducted, the first of the Lizzy Gardner series by T. R. (Theresa) Ragan and, for the Kindle Fire, To Catch a Thief from Prime Instant Video, starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. And: Amazon announces a deal to had hundreds of movies and TV shows from MGM.

Mentioned in Comments - eReaderiQ.

Next week’s guest – Kevin Eagan, author of the CriticalMargins blog about books, culture and technology.

Free Webinar - Click here to register for a free webinar that I will give on Wednesday, June 27th from 3 to 4 p.m. EDT for the Professional Outdoor Media Association. The topic will be how you can publish articles in the Kindle Store, and I will be relying heavily on Kate Harper’s essential 99-cent guide, How to Publish and Sell Your Article on the Kindle: 12 Steps for Short Documents. 

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Tech Tips - Allen MacDiarmid tips me off to a free or inexpensive (if you donate $10 to support it) Microsoft alternative for creating documents that can be converted to Kindle format via Calibre for transfer from your Macintosh to your Kindle. It’s NeoOffice. The $79 Kindle gets a software update, to Version 4.1.0.

Interview (Starts at 23:38) – Russ Grandinetti, Amazon’s VP of Kindle Content, met with me at BEA for a wide-ranging discussion of eBook pricing, Digital Rights Management, Kindle Singles, social reading, and how much longer there will be a Kindle Keyboard in the lineup. He made no newsworthy predictions on the last item but did assert that he, too, has heard from customers who really love the Kindle 3. “I really, really do appreciate that feedback from people,” he told me. “We’ve heard it.”

Content – Instapaper is now available for your Kindle Fire, for $2.99. So is HBO Go, making its first appearance on an Android tablet via the Fire. Theresa Ragan, who will be my guest for next week’s show, is the author of Abducted and Dead Weight, the first two books of the Lizzy Gardner series. Also, James McQuivey of Forrester Research has published his highly original mix of survey data and personal essay, titled Why We Need Dad, available for $2.99 on Kindle just in time for Father’s Day.

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