Author of Born Reading (with daughter Olive) Interview starts at 11:27 I knew then that I had come up with a pretty good mix. I knew she had a print book that she liked, and I knew she had an audiobook that she liked, and I knew she had something on the iPad that she could do […]

Editor of TeleRead Interview starts at 18:34 I think Amazon has done a better PR job. I think that they're going to end up getting what they want, because I think Hachette needs them more than Amazon needs Hachette. Show Notes and Links: News "Safari Begins Next Chapter as an O'Reilly Media Company" by Andrew Savikas […]

CEO of Safari Books Online Interview starts at 20:55 I don't have any firsthand knowledge about how things have looked on the Kindle Unlimited side, though it's certainly notable that for now, at least, I don't think any of the Big Five trade publishers are participating. Show Notes and Links: News "ComiXology now offers DRM-free […]

Creator of Kindle Nation Daily and BookGorilla Interview starts at 9:23 I don't think their market [for Fire phone] is people who don't have a smartphone now. I think it's people who have some version of an Android phone or an iPhone, and they're committed Amazon customers. I would expect that 75 percent of their […]

Novelist, Journalist, Author of "I Murdered My Library" Interview starts at 23:05 I was sitting, reading this novel on my Kindle. And I thought, actually, this is a perfect medium for this particular book [In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut], which had a very pared-down writing style. And I did have this very, very eerie sense […]

Creator of TeleRead and LibraryCity Interview starts at 15:48 Everyone, I think, would be better off if we replaced DRM [Digital Rights Management] with either no "protection" at all, or else social DRM, which in this case means imprinting the readers' identities at the starts of books. The advantage of this is that books would […]

Contracts Attorney and Creator of The Passive Voice blog Interview starts at 22:32 "Predatory pricing" sounds good to people who don't really understand that law very well. But I don't see anything in Amazon's behavior that would support that. I think a predatory-pricing antitrust action would would get kicked out of court, because where are the […]

An 8-year-old Kindle reader Interview starts at 15:56 You can take a photo and put it on the Kindle of yourself. You would never get to do that to a book, probably! Show Notes and Links: News Full video of Jeff Bezos's Fire Phone presentation on June 18 in Seattle "FAA grounds Amazon's drone delivery plans" by […]

Dave Limp, Senior Vice President – Amazon Devices Interview starts at 27:17 A good example of a use case on reading, whether it's the autoscroll in a web page or autoscroll in a book, is on a train. Lots of people in this world commute, and they read with one hand while they're coming into […]

Senior Vice President – Amazon Kindle Interview starts at 18:20 We have made an experience that has helped people feel actually like they're getting real value to pay seven, eight, nine, ten bucks for text in the form of bits. And we think that's actually a tremendous accomplishment. We're proud that Kindle's played a role […]