The Kindle Chronicles

Partnerships Manager for the Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator

at Boston Children's Hospital

Interview starts at 7:44 and ends at 28:24

"One of the barriers with voice in general is you don't know what's out there. You don't really know like you do with a phone what app options you have, so it's a little bit harder for people to find new things. Amazon in general is pretty concerned about that, because they don't just want people to use it for their three basic cases, being an alarm, music, and maybe re-ordering something."

News

AI Deep-Speare project

NBC visits with top Alexa exec in Seattle

Amazon's share of U.S. retail spending considered

Amazon plans to open its own health clinic for employees

Amazon's support for literary nonprofitrs

Tech Tip

Fire HD 10 with Show Mode Dock at Amazon - $190

MyScript Nebo note-taking app for Apple Pencil

forScore music reader for iPad

Interview with Devin Nadar at the Voice of Healthcare Summit

Devin Nadar interviewed on the Voice of Healthcare podcast - July 3, 2018

Boston Children's Hospital

KidsMD skill for Alexa

"Amazon Echo gets its first healthcare skill -- KidsMD" at MHealthSpot - April 17, 2016

Amazon Web Services and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

CIGNA

VoiceFirst FM network of podcasts

Interview with Nathan Treloar (Starts at 29:02 and ends at 48:20)

Orbita

Memory Lane Alexa Skill

Next Week's Guest

Robert Dugoni, author of the Tracy Crosswhite series.

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Jim Jones, right, Associate Professor of Management at University of Nebraska at Omaha

Interview starts at 9:03 and ends at 40:50

"In the classroom, I really do strongly feel that attention is so critical to actual understanding that the more that you can remove the electronic connection and the focus on inputting electronically or--even worse sometimes I think, is passively taking pictures of the screen--the better."

News

Is Amazon working on another phone? https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/7/29/17627314/amazon-phone-studios-jen-salke-rumor

How wealthy are Jeff Bezos's parents? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-31/a-hidden-amazon-fortune-bezos-parents-could-be-worth-billions

How Amazon dominates online retail: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-01/amazon-s-the-biggest-in-online-shopping-but-not-always-the-best

Demise of the Kindle Voyage:

https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/the-kindle-voyage-is-now-discontinued

Tech Tip

Update for Kindle app for iPhone and iPad:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amazon-kindle/id302584613?mt=8

Interview with Jim Jones

Gallup and its StrengthsFinder assessment tool

University of Nebraska Omaha

Microsoft Surface Pro

Bloom's Taxonomy of educational goals

reMarkable tablet

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Clifton Strengths assessment

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Links to items mentioned in this 10th Anniversary episode

First episode of The Kindle Chronicles (TKC 1) with Baratunde Thurston on July 26, 2008

My interviews with Jeff Bezos in 2012 and 2016

Transcript of my 2012 Bezos interview (via Kindle Nation Daily)

Kindle Oasis

Interview with Russ Grandinetti, VP Kindle Content, in 2010

TKC 338 with Andy Weir, author of The Martian - January 23, 2015

The Martian (movie) at Prime Video

Artemis by Andy Weir

TKC 287 with Hugh Howey - January 31, 2014

TKC 191 with Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale on Hulu

First in Line for an iPhone in 2007 (YouTube video)

TKC 502 - South by Southwest Interactive 2018

The Colorado Sun at Civil

TKC 336 with poet John Ashbery - January 20, 2015

TKC 382 with poet Donald Hall - November 28, 2015

TKC 457 with James McQuivey - May 6, 2017

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Author of Departure, The Extinction Files

and The Origin Mystery

Interview starts at 13:07 and ends at 43:36

"I feel very lucky about the timing. The Kindle had just come out. I would go home from work and read my Kindle every night, and I thought, 'There's got to be a bunch of people like me that are doing this that I could write a story for.' And that's kinda what I got to."

News

"Amazon reportedly had a 300-person conference call to deal with Prime Day glitches" by Rachel Sandler at Business Insider - July 20, 2018

Tech Tip

reMarkable website

reMarkable tablet at Amazon.com

Neo Smart Pen

"How to Buy a Kindle as a Gift for More Than One Person" by Saikat Basu at Make Use of - July 12, 2018

"Why You Should Read a Book with a Stranger" by Nick Douglas at Lifehacker - July 19, 2018

Audrey

"Monitor Amazon Prices on Your Mac With This Menu Bar App" by Emily Price at Lifehacker4 - July 7, 2018

"How to install a new launcher on Amazon's Fire tablet" by Chris Meadows at TeleRead - July 7, 2018

PriceAlert for Amazon app for Macintosh ($2.99)

Interview with A G Riddle

Books by A G Riddle

The Origin Mystery series: The Atlantis Gene, The Atlantis Plague, and The Atlantis World

Departure

The Extinction Files series: Pandemic and Genome

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne and Dave King

Wool Omnibus Edition [Kindle in Motion] (Silo series Book 1) by Hugh Howey

David Gatewood, freelance editor

Content

"Amazon Publishing's Abigail Strom, author of Tell Me, Wins Romance Writers of America 2018 RITA Award" press release July 20, 2018

"Amazon Publishing Author Christine Bell Wins International Thriller Writers' 2018 Thriller Award for Grievance" press release July 14, 2018

Next Week's Show

A 10th anniversary look back at the first episode of The Kindle Chronicles on July 26, 2018, and what we've been talking about since then, with excerpts from interviews with Jeff Bezos and others.

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Author of Somebody's Daughter

Interview starts at 17:04 and ends at 43:26

"I think there's nothing more terrifying than the realization that someone you thought you knew--whether it's your spouse, your parent, your sibling, someone you thought you knew really well, someone in your family--has been keeping some kind of secret from you." Photo by Glen Rose Photography

News

Kindle Paperwhite will be on sale for $80 ($40 off) on Prime Day.

"Amazon is giving Prime members up to $30 in free cash for shopping at Whole Foods this week" by Hayley Peterson at Business Insider - July 10, 2018

"Watch out, retailers. This is just how big Amazon is becoming" by Lauren Thomas and Courtney Reagan at CNBC - July 13, 2018

"Amazon Go Means Goodby Status Quo" by Chris Walton at Forbes - July 6, 2018

Chris Walton's Omni Talk blog

Tech Tip

First impressions of Amazon's Show Mode Dock for Fire HD 8 and HD 10

Interview with David Bell

Western Kentucky University MFA program

Somebody's Daughter by David Bell

Other novels by David Bell at Amazon.com

Next Week's Guest

Author A.G. Riddle

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Founder & Chief Trailblazer of Retirepreneur

Interview starts at 16:01 and ends at 40:10

"I went deep into Kindle and the electronic piece, and then I began pulling back some. I would tell you right now I am right down the middle. I'm a hybrid."

News

Amazon's Prime Day starts July 16th at 3 pm ET

"How to Get Primed for Amazon Prime Day" at Wired - July 3, 2018

Delta Trinsic faucet with Alexa control (new product launch on Prime Day)

Prime Day "Home Smart Home" sweepstakes

"Why Amazon keeps making tablets when the market has been struggling" by Hayley Tsukayama at The Washington Post - July 5, 2018

Amazon's 2nd Go Store Planned for Seattle (GeekWire) - July 3, 2018

Tech Tip

A look back at print technology for annotations

Interview with Donna Kastner

Retirepreneur

Retirepreneur Podcast

AARP

NextAvenue

South By Southwest

Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA)

Ask More: The Power of Questions to Open Doors, Uncover Solutions, and Spark Change by Frank Sesno

Content

Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World by Eric Metaxas

Mark Twain: A Life by Ron Powers

"The Most Important Sci-Fi Show of the 90's Hits Amazon Prime in June" by Ryan Britt at Inverse - May 17, 2018

Babylon 5 Season 1 (Prime Video)

Next Week's Guest

David Bell, author of Somebody's Daughter

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Author of the Deadly Edits and Liss MacCrimmon Mysteries

Interview starts at 16:16 and ends at 44:12

"What I try to do is after I get up and have my coffee and my toast, is to come into my office and sit down and write at least one scene, the next scene in the story. I do that usually seven days a week."

Tech Tip

My comparison of Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant

News

Prime Wardrobe

Alexa on iPhone and iPad (TechCrunch)

Show Mode Dock for Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 10

Interview with Kathy Lynn Emerson

Crime & Punctuation (first in the Deadly Edits Series) by Kaitlyn Dunnett

The Liss MacCrimmon Mysteries by Kaitlyn Dunnett

Murder in a Cornish Alehouse: An Elizabethan Thriller (A Mistress Jaffrey Mystery) by Kathy Lynn Emerson

Sisters in Crime

Mystery Writers of America

"Lack of Oxford comma costs Maine company millions in overtime dispute" by Daniel Victor at The Boston Globe - March 16, 2017

A Who's Who of Tudor Women

Kathy Lynn Emerson's four-book Diana Spaulding Mysteries series published by Belgrave House

Next Week's Guest

Donna Kastner, founder and chief trailblazer of Retirepreneuer.

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Seattle Music and Arts Pioneer

Interview starts at 9:38 and ends at 44:45

"There it was, the [Seattle] head tax. 'We're going to do it, this is what we're going to do. It's going to address homelessness. We'll collect the money--we don't know how we're going to spend it yet, but we're going to hit these businesses with this tax.' That's just not the way to govern, in my opinion."

News

Atul Gawande to head Amazon-Berkshire-JP Morgan health organization, as covered in The New York Times and The Washington Post

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

Amazon Prime Day 2018 will begin July 16, according to a Techradar scoop.

TechRadar's Prime Day hub

Supreme Court ruling allowing states to force online retailers to collect sales tax (Bloomberg and Recode)

Alexa in hotels

Google Home

Hub by Amazon

Tech Tip

Fire TV Cube

Interview with Ricardo Frazer

Sir Mix-a-Lot (Wikipedia)

Sir Mix-a-Lot web site

Zaki-Rose

Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF)

Seattle Theatre Group

4Culture

"Amazon to Share New Building with Homeless Shelter in Seattle" by Nick Wingfield at The New York Times - May 10, 2017

Mary's Place

"Jeff Bezos Wants Ideas for Philanthropy, So He Asked Twitter" by Nick Wingfield at The New York Times - June 15, 2017

Next Week's Guest

Kathy Lynn Emerson, author of Crime & Punctuation (Deadly edits).

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New Owner of Digital Book World

Interview starts at 12:01 and ends at 43:50

"Everything with books orbits discoverability. That's the billion-dollar problem. That's the problem that Apple has never figured out yet. That's the problem that Amazon has sort of figured out."

News

Target dazzles me with service

Rebranding Prime

Mayday! Mayday! The end of a great customer help service.

Tech Tip

Alexa on your Apple Watch

How to read PDF's on your Kindle

Try "Alexa, play the podcast The Kindle Chronicles"

Interview with Bradley Metrock

Digital Book World

VoiceFirst.FM and This Week in Voice

"What to expect from the new Digital Book World" by PG at The Passive Voice - October 19, 2018

Alexa Skill Blueprints and Storyline

SoundHound

"Walt Mossberg to keynote Digital Book World 2018" - November 26, 2017

WTF? What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us by Tim O'Reilly

Outro

Thanks to Preston Edmands and Lindsay Babayan of Flyte New Media for the all-new design for my show notes page. And to Rich Brooks, Flyte's founder and president, who is helping me consider initiatives to grow the TKC audience. His excellent digital marketing podcast, Agents of Change, is a must if you are looking to expand your own reach via the Internet. Rich also convenes an annual Agents of Change conference in Portland, Maine, which I have attended regularly and I ways learn lots when I go. I think of it as a mini South By Southwest by the Sea, and this year it will be held on September 20th and 21st.

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Author of "The List" in Amazon's The Real Thing Collection

Interview starts at 13:23 and ends at 39:21

"I think we look at the Big Five publishers as being kind of set in their ways and really traditional, but I actually think that everyone is looking to try new things. I think everyone is realizing that just putting out a hardcover in the exact same way isn't going to always work in a way that they would hope. It's more that I'm just excited about different ways of approaching storytelling." (Photo credit: Teresa Flowers)

News

Echo Look ($199.99) is now available to all U.S. customers (press release) - June 6, 2018

"Want to Read Michael Lewis's Next Work? You'll Be Able to Listen to It First" by Alexandra Alter at The New York Times - June 2, 2018

Amazon Fire TV Cube

"Amazon's Fire TV Cube is an Echo, streamking box, and universal remote in one" by Chris Welch at The Verge - June 7, 2018

Interview with Jade Chang

"The List" by Jade Chang in the Amazon Original Stories collection, The Real Thing

The Wangs Vs. the World by Jade Chang

"The Deceptively Simple Work of an Artist Who Hallucinated as a Child" by Tasos Gaintatzis and Marina Legaki at The Hundreds - December 19, 2014

"Love and Estrogen" by Samantha Allen in The Real Thing collection

Content

"What Books are Highlighted the Most Densely?" By Daniel Doyon at Readwise - May 10, 2018

Next Week's Guest

Bradley Metrock, CEO of Score Publishing, which is the new owner of Digital Book World, scheduled for October 2nd through 4th in Nashville, Tennessee.

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.

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