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.
https://thekindlechronicles.com
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 14 days 18 hours 39 minutes
TKC 310 David H. Rothman
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,
TKC 309 David P. Vandagriff
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
TKC 308 My Grandson James
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 ...
TKC 307 Fire Phone Launch
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,
TKC 306 Russ Grandinetti
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.
TKC 305 Stephen Windwalker
Creator of Kindle Nation Daily and BookGorilla Interview starts at 15:56 - Amazon has built this colossus in the retail industry by having the best pricing and the best availability ever imagined. And now what Amazon has done is basically to say that...
TKC 304 Ed Park
Senior Editor for Literary Fiction at Amazon Publishing Interview starts at 10:22 - One of the things when I was teaching is I would have these students who had a lot of promise, and I would encourage them.
TKC Test Episode
I am tweaking my podcast feed, using Libsyn as my central control point for meta data, graphics, and audio. It's supposed to post automatically to WordPress. Test 1, 2, 3...
TKC 237 Darlene
My Wife, Darlene, and the Yorkie Claire at Ocean Park, Maine - It depends on how you read. I think the basic Kindle is perfect if you don't need that light. I'm not sure that I would make the change if it wasn't for the light. Show Notes and Links:
TKC 236 Jaimal Yogis
Author of The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Survival, Success, Surfing…and Love Interview Starts at 4:55 - Fear is going to be part of all of our lives. But there is a way to relate to it differently and more skillfully,