The Kindle Chronicles

My wife the amazing art quilter and Kindle enthusiast   Interview starts at 14:08 and ends at 39:48   A friend of mine said, “How many times have you dropped a Paperwhite in the tub?” And she’s right. I never have. And so at that point I decided that I was just going to hold the Kindle, and if it fell into the tub I would deal with it.   News “Half of Net Proceeds Is the Fair Royalty Rate for E-Books” at the Authors Guild - July 9, 2015 “Bread and Roses” by Hugh Howey at The Wayfinder - January 24, 2014 “Opinion: Apple Watch sales plunge 90%” by Brett Arends at MarketWatch - July 8, 2015 “Apple Watch Sales Aren’t Looking So Hot” by Aaron Tilley at Forbes - July 1, 2015 “After crushing rival smartwatch sales, Apple Watch portrayed as doomed by CNBC” by Daniel Eran Dilger at Apple Insider - June 28, 2015 Apple WatchCast episode 18 My 2014 interview with the cofounders of Spritz in TKC 323 Bigger than Black Friday? Amazon Prime Day - July 15, 2015  Prime Music $100,000 Sweepstakes   Tech Tip How to disable Kindle Word Wise on your Paperwhite: 1. Start at the home screen 2. Tap on the menu icon at upper right. 3. Tap on Settings. 4. Tap on Reading Options. 5. Tap on Language Learning. 6. Turn Word Wise off. You can also turn off Vocabulary Builder.   Interview with my wife Darlene Goodreads Newsletters      (To receive the Goodreads email newsletters, click on your Goodreads Profile page and choose which ones you want.) Authors discussed in the interview:  Harry Bingham’s Fiona Griffiths books - 1. Talking to the Dead: A Novel  2. Love Story, With Murders: A Novel  3. The Strange Death of Fiona Griffiths - $2.51 on Kindle 4. This Thing of Darkness (available for pre-order for $3.99 with delivery July 30, 2015) Julie Hyzy's  White House Chef Mysteries Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs Mystery series Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult The Firebird by Susanna Kearsley J. A. Jance’s Ali Reynolds series and J.P. Beaumont series      Dance of the Bones: A J.P. Beaumont and Brandon Walker Novel by J. A. Jance  - available for Kindle preorder for $15.99 (!) with delivery on September 8, 2015, price set by the publisher, HarperCollins The Rise & Fall of Great Powers: A Novel by Tom Rachman Stephen White’s Alan Gregory series Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire Mysteries Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series and the Bosch Amazon Original Series C J Box's Joe Picket series Lee Child’s Amazon page   Content “Reading War and Peace on my iPhone” by Clive Thompson at BookRiot   Comments   Next Week’s Guest Amy Edelman, founder and president of IndieReader  

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 Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!