A weekly podcast about the Kindle and eBooks with in-depth conversations with guests--authors, technology experts, book industry analysts, Amazon execs, educators, agents, readers, and more.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 14 days 18 hours 39 minutes
TKC 320 Amazon’s NYC Briefing on New Devices
Show Notes and Links: If you use these links to purchase one of the new devices, it will provide Amazon Associates commission revenue to support the podcast without adding to your purchase price. Thanks in advance! - Len - Kindle Voyage WiFi - $199 -
TKC 319 Jim Duncan
Executive Director of the Colorado Library Consortium Interview starts at 16:26 - We could go back as a group of libraries, hundreds of libraries across Colorado, to a Big Five publisher and say, “We’re ready to buy your content directly,
TKC 318 Sara Nelson
Editorial Director of Amazon.com Interview starts at 20:43 - On the Amazon book team’s pick for September’s spotlight debut title, Fives and Twenty-Fives by Michael Pitre: "Books about the war, any war, certainly a war that is current are very,
TKC 317 Julie Blattberg
Open Road Media’s executive director of consumer engagement Interview starts at 15:13 - Who put the “social" in social media? That’s one human being making a connection with another human being—so Bill Gates read someone else’s copy of the book
TKC 316 Ripley MacDonald
Amazon’s Director of Student Programs Interview starts at 15:59 - Everything that’s available on Amazon is available at the Purdue Student Store. The way to think about it is, once you’ve activated the co-branding or entered Purdue mode,
TKC 315 Jason Boog
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,
TKC 314 Juli Monroe
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 -
TKC 313 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,
TKC 312 Stephen Windwalker
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,
TKC 311 Linda Grant
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],