The Kindle Chronicles

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Evan Ratliff, cofounder, CEO and editor of Atavist 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 [...]

News - 1) Amazon announces record Kindle sales on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. 2) Just in time for the holidays, a $1.5 million bonus is added for Kindle Direct Publishing authors enrolled in KDP Select. 3) Click here to vote for Worldreader.org in the Chase American Giving Awards. The deadline is Tuesday, December 4. Worldreader is [...]

News - This week marked the fifth anniversary of the introduction of the first Kindle. Five years later, The Los Angeles Times reports on a prediction that the Kindle Fire HD will outsell Apple's iPad mini by a margin of two to one. Tech Tip - You won't find a Kobo app at Amazon's Apps for Android [...]

News - Is the Kindle adding $9 billion to Amazon's market valuation? I hope so!Tech Tip - How to offer your blog to the Kindle Store for subscriptions. Thanks to Charles Hugh Smith , author of Weblogs & New Media: Marketing in Crisis, for the question.Interview - Leslie Nicoll, an author of The Amazon Kindle FAQ and a leading light at the Kindle Boards forum, answers questions everyone has about the Kindle. She also owns an editorial services business, Maine Desk. Quote - From Cash Magazine, a 2009 economic forecast from one of the rare analysts who foretold the crash.Comments - Will DeLamater, Steven Schwindt, Mary, Karen, Rebecca, Bob Cope, Paul Higginbotham, Linda Hopkins, Joe D. Clark and a really great Tweet from Coleenis.At the end of the show, I drew the name of a member of the Kindle Chronicles Email Alert List to win a $10 Amazon gift certificate. If you'd like to join the list, simply send me an email at [email protected] .To make an audio comment, please call 206-666-2713. Next week's guest will be podcasting pioneer Michael Geoghegan, who is a Kindle enthusiast and now a Kindle author, since the second edition of his excellent Podcast Solutions book is available in Kindle edition.

News - My own exclusive scuttlebutt which leads me to believe Amazon will start shipping the new version this month, ahead of the official announcement in February. Tech Tip - Ever wonder how much further you have to read before reaching the end of a chapter? This tip will help you find out.Interview - Mike Elgan, widely read tech blogger and columnist, who puts the Kindle's phenomenal success in perspective and looks ahead to huge profits for Amazon from the Kindle. (Part 1 of the interview is in this podcast, and part 2 follows in a Kindle Chronicles EXTRA.)Quote - from the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Downloaded from MobileReadComments - Rebecca, Nicholas Schutz,and Linda Hopkins (Amazon's Best of 2008 List)If you'd like to be on the Kindle Chronicles Email Alert List, please send me an email at [email protected] . I'll be doing a drawing for a $10 Amazon gift certificate, to be awarded at random to someone on the list. Next week's interview: Leslie Nicoll, author of The Amazon Kindle FAQ.You can leave an audio comment at 206-666-2713 or a text comment at [email protected]