The Kindle Chronicles

Director of Deaf Ministries, Baptist International Outreach

Note: I am very grateful to David Peach for covering Digital Book World on his own for The Kindle Chronicles this year, which enabled me to spend important time with my family.

Links

Baptist International Outreach

Joshua Tallent of Firebrand Technologies

Eda Gimenez of Buncee

Paul Frank of The Bloom Library

American Library Association's take on the Macmillan issue:

Buncee

Dave Gunn of the DAISY Consortium

Bloom Library

National Book Foundation

Next Week's Show

Agents of Change conference in Portland, Maine

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Author of The Everything Store

Interview starts at 16:31 and ends at 28:37

"I'm resuming the story. It's the story of Alexa and the Amazon Go project, their international expansion, and AWS and the explosion in the Amazon Marketplace and then of course society coming to grips with this technology giant in its midst."

News

"E Ink is working on new color e-paper solutions" by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - August 31,2019

Digital Book World 2019 tickets sold out in Nashville

Tech Tips

Fintie Slimshell Case for All-New Kindle Oasis - $10 at Amazon.com

Prime Reload

"Alexa Can Help You Find Lost Items Around Your House" by Brendan Hesse at Lifehacker 0- August 30, 2019

Interview with Brad Stone

Books by Brad Stone: The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon and The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World

Comments

Sticky Notes podcast

Next Week's Show

David Peach will be covering for me at Digital Book World 2019

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Director, Adoption at Khoros in London

Interview starts at 16:20 and ends at 49:09

"I find the Kindle good for highlighting, not as good for note taking. Even though I think that functionality has improved over the years, typing on the keypad on the Kindle doesn't work great for me. So depending on what I want to do and the type of book determines whether I want to go print version or read it on the Kindle."

News

"Aggressive Amazon tactic pushes you to consider its own brand before you click 'buy'" by Jay Greene at The Washington Post - August 28, 2019

Tech Tip

read.amazon.com/notebook

"External drive support in iOS 13 makes it possible to easily share files with a Kindle" by Chance Miller at 9To5Mac - June 18, 2019

Interview with Bryan Person

My conversation with Bryan Person on TKC 89 - April 2, 2010

Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad by Austin Kleon

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight (Audiobook)

TKC 534: My interview with Power Reader Simon Eskioldsen - October 26, 2018

Audible Captions

Audible Immersion Reading

Football Hackers: The Science and Art of a Data Revolution by Christoph Biermann

Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David J. Epstein

Blinkist

Next Week's Guest

Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

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Author of Heavenly Body, with her grandson Beau

Interview starts at 21:06 and ends at 48:59

Installation and Test of Echo Auto

Interview with Stephanie Edgerly

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Editorial Director of Amazon Original Stories

Interview starts at 17:46 and ends at 36:41

"We are a publisher within the context of a technology company. And so we're really eager to work with authors who are world builders who are really interested in applying that type of imagination and creativity beyond the page."

News

Land of the Giants podcast with Jason del Rey

"Dean Koontz's Jump to Amazon Publishing: Will Other Authors Follow?" by Porter Anderson at Publishing Perspectives - July 22, 2019

Interview with Julia Sommerfeld

Amazon Original Stories

Ricochet Joe by Dean Koontz

My interview with Dean Koontz for TKC 493 on January 13, 2018

"Dean Koontz Signs New Five-Book Deal with Amazon Publishing" - Amazon press release July 22, 2019

Dean Koontz's author page at Amazon.com

Beautiful Ruins: A Novel by Jess Walter

The One Collection including "Parable" by Jess Walter and "Speed Grieving" by Allison Ellis

Daisy Jones & The Six: A Novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid - an Amazon Original Story

Disorder Collection including "The Best Girls" by Min Jin Lee

Inventions: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era collection

Exposure Collection including "Bad Therapist" by Evan Wright

Dark Corners Halloween collection (2018)

The Forward Collection (SciFi) - to be released on September 17, 2019

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April 29, 1929 - August 6, 2019

This week's show is about the passing of my mother and includes a conversation I had with her eight years ago. We titled the interview "Love in a Model A" and you'll hear why in the episode.

RIP, Mom.

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Author of The Pecan Man

Cassie's web site

Amphibian Press YouTube interview with Cassie Selleck- August 6, 2018

The Pecan Man and The Truth About Grace by Cassie Dandridge Selleck

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Author of The Solar War

Interview starts at 15:38 and ends at 46:05

"In The Solar War, in the dark moments of the book, it really becomes about tribes of humans against other tribes of humans, and you wonder who's going to triumph. And then what happens on the other side?"

News

All-New Kindle Oasis and leather cover

Interview with A. G. Riddle

The Long Winter trilogy by A. G. Riddle: Winter World, The Solar War, and The Lost Colony (available for pre-order, to be released on November 5, 2019)

Recursion: A Novel and Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World: A Novel by C. A. Fletcher

The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel by Jodie Archer and Matthew L. Jockers

Hit Lit: Cracking the Code of the Twentieth Century's Biggest Bestsellers by James W. Hall

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Herman Melville

My previous interviews with A. G. Riddle on July 21, 2018 and March 7, 2019

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Stacey Lamberti, left, and Amy Stevens

Interviews start at 15:05 and end at 45:57

News

"Amazon Prime Day Topped $7 Billion: Internet Retailer" by Annie Gaus at TheStreet - July 18, 2019

Amazon press release on Prime Day results

Interviews with beachgoers at Old Orchard Beach, Maine

Kim Pilon from Ottawa, Canada:

The Islanders: A Novel by Meg Mitchell Moore

Alan Crowell from The Villages in Florida and Old Orchard Beach, Maine

Books by Paul Doiron

Robert Parker's Author Page at Amazon.com

Robert Parker's Jesse Stone series

Kindle Unlimited

1. J. Box's Author Page at Amazon.com

Amy Stevens of Barre, VT:

Only One Life: A Novel by Ashley Farley

Stacey Lamberti of Barre, VT:

Christian romance authors Karen Kingsbury and Kimberly Rae Jordan

Debbie from Montreal:

Kobo Aura Edition 2

Books by Vince Flynn, Daniel Silva, Alex Berenson, Brad Thor, Brad Taylor, and James Patterson

Becoming by Michelle Obama

Adam from Oxford, MA:

The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle Book 1) by Patrick Rothfuss

Nicole from Oxford, MA:

The Witches of St. Petersberg: A Novel by Imogen Edwards-Jones

Comments

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Presenter of Digital Book World Sept. 10-12 in Nashville

Interview starts at 17:04 and ends at 54:36

"This is a very unique conference. There's nothing quite like it. It's time well spent for anybody who touches in any way publishing or technology."

News

Chris Walton's speculations on Prime Day of the future

Amazon's big new employee training program announced

Peter Kafka interview with Vimeo CEO Anjali Sud

Tech Tip

Interview with Bradley Metrock

Digital Book World 2019 in Nashville September 10-12, 2019 at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel

Collaborative Knowledge Foundation

Bloom Library

Simon & Schuster's Stephen King Library

Mike Shatzkin's blog

Samsung's Bixby 2.0

This Week in Voice podcast

Amazon's Alexa Conversations

The Voice of Healthcare Summit August 5-6 at Harvard Medical School, Boston

Lifepod

Project Voice January 13-20, 2020 in Chattanooga

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