The Kindle Chronicles

TKC 532 DIY Book Scanner Dave Slusher

13 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Host of Evil Genius Chronicles Interview starts at 10:55 and ends at 40:51 "Really and truly [with a DIY book scanning device] I'm moving my hoarding...

TKC 531 Live from Digital Book World in Nashville

05 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

David Peach, TKC Reporter-at-Large Links Mentioned in this Episode Digital Book World 2018 Alexa Developer website The Dog Feeder Skill for Alexa Di...

TKC 530 Paul Slavin

28 Sep 2018

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CEO of Open Road Integrated Media Interview starts at 3:32 and ends at 27:40 "Industry-wide, if you took all eBooks, it looks like it's going down ma...

TKC 529 Bestselling Author Scott Pratt

21 Sep 2018

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               Author of the Joe Dillard and Darren Street series Scott Pratt author page at Amazon.com Jeff Bezos on the David Rubenstein Sho...

TKC 528 DBW Correspondent David Peach

14 Sep 2018

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  Director of Deaf Ministries for Baptist International Outreach Interview starts at 12:12 and ends at 40:04 "If I'm getting a book that I'm indepen...

TKC 527 Books Expert Brian O'Leary

08 Sep 2018

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Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group Interview starts at 5:19 and ends at 36:00 "With respect to blockchain, there's an opportunity to...

TKC 526 Blockchain Bookseller Josef Marc

01 Sep 2018

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  CEO of Publica Interview starts at 7:05 and ends at 42:10 "So a book token in our eReader app is going to be used as part of the cryptographic pro...

TKC 525 Amazon Publishing's Grace Doyle

24 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

  Editorial Director at Thomas & Mercer Interview starts at 16:49 and ends at 43:56 "It's interesting to think about readers around the world being ...

TKC 524 Bestselling T&M Author Robert Dugoni

18 Aug 2018

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Author of the Tracy Crosswhite and David Sloane mysteries Interview starts at 1:30 and ends at 35:00 "I'd say the primary difference between Thomas &...

TKC 523 Devin Nadar on KidsMD for Alexa

11 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Partnerships Manager for the Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator at Boston Children's Hospital Interview starts at 7:44 and ends at 28:24 "One ...

TKC 522 Jim Jones on Technology in the Classroom

04 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

  Jim Jones, right, Associate Professor of Management at University of Nebraska at Omaha Interview starts at 9:03 and ends at 40:50 "In the classroo...

TKC 521 The First Decade

27 Jul 2018

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  Links to items mentioned in this 10th Anniversary episode First episode of The Kindle Chronicles (TKC 1) with Baratunde Thurston on July 26, 2008...

TKC 520 The Inspiring Success of Author A. G. Riddle

21 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Author of Departure, The Extinction Files and The Origin Mystery Interview starts at 13:07 and ends at 43:36 "I feel very lucky about the timing. The...

TKC 519 Master of Suspense David Bell

14 Jul 2018

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Author of Somebody's Daughter Interview starts at 17:04 and ends at 43:26 "I think there's nothing more terrifying than the realization that someone ...

Under Construction

09 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

If you are a regular listener to The Kindle Chronicles, you may have noticed a change in the show notes page. Preston Edmands from Flyte New Media ha...

TKC 518 Donna Kastner: What's Next?

07 Jul 2018

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  Founder & Chief Trailblazer of Retirepreneur Interview starts at 16:01 and ends at 40:10 "I went deep into Kindle and the electronic piece, and th...

TKC 517 A Prolific Author from Maine: Kathy Lynn Emerson

30 Jun 2018

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Author of the Deadly Edits and Liss MacCrimmon Mysteries Interview starts at 16:16 and ends at 44:12 "What I try to do is after I get up and have my c...

TKC 516 Seattleite Ricardo Frazer's Take on Amazon

23 Jun 2018

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Seattle Music and Arts Pioneer Interview starts at 9:38 and ends at 44:45 "There it was, the [Seattle] head tax. 'We're going to do it, this is what ...

TKC 515 Bradley Metrock Reinvents Digital Book World in Nashville

15 Jun 2018

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New Owner of Digital Book World Interview starts at 12:01 and ends at 43:50 "Everything with books orbits  discoverability. That's the billion-dolla...

TKC 514 Jade Chang

09 Jun 2018

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Author of "The List" in Amazon's The Real Thing Collection Interview starts at 13:23 and ends at 39:21 "I think we look at the Big Five publishers as ...

TKC 513 Nick Wingfield

02 Jun 2018

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Senior Editor, The Information Interview starts at 11:36 and ends at 43:50 "[Amazon's HQ2 decision] will be before the end of the year, unless someth...

TKC 512 Andrew Updegrove

26 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Author of the Frank Adversego Thriller Series Interview starts at 11:14 and ends at 35:51 "Alexa's pretty primitive. I think it's very concerning from...

TKC 511 Michael Kozlowski

19 May 2018

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Editor-in-Chief of Good E-Reader Interview starts at 3:45 and ends at 33:51 News "Amazon Go cashier-free store could be headed to SF's Union Square" ...

TKC 510 James and Deborah Fallows

10 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Authors of Our Towns: A 100,000-mile Journey Into the Heart of America Interview starts at 9:43 and ends at 39:14 "James Fallows: 'Through my reportor...

TKC 509 Séamus Bellamy

03 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Traveler, teller of tales, reviewer of eReaders Interview starts at 15:25 and ends at 41:53 "To be honest, I haven't met one person outside tech nerds...

TKC 508 Brett McNeill

28 Apr 2018

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Longtime Kindle Chronicles listener Interview starts at 18:14 and ends at 43:00 "It was very clear what was missing [in Seattle's Amazon Go store]. Th...

TKC 507 Hannah Howard

21 Apr 2018

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Author of Feast: True Love in and out of the Kitchen Interview starts at 15:50 and ends at 41:48 "It's not that I sought out to be published by Amazon...

TKC 506 Mark Isero

13 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Creator of the Kindle Classroom Project Interview starts at 15:29 and ends at 43:19 "I don't think that the Kindle makes reading any more fun, but a l...

TKC 505 Elizabeth George

07 Apr 2018

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Author of The Punishment She Deserves: A Lynley Novel Interview starts at 12:25 and ends at 36:50 "The late Sue Grafton said something to me that was ...

TKC 504 Otis Chandler

30 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Co-founder and CEO of Goodreads Interview starts at 14:30 and ends at 36:54 "People read along, and then--for as long as there've been books--after yo...

TKC 503 Blake Pollard

24 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Readly U.S. Contact Interview starts at 12:48 and ends at 40:51 "Everyone for a long time has been trying to reinvent the magazine experience on digit...

TKC 502 South By Southwest Interactive

17 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Brittany Kaiser, Co-Founder, Bueno Capital and CryptoHQ Interview starts at 16:20 and ends at 22:29 South By Southwest Links "Wyoming Passes 5 Pro-...

TKC 501 Brad Parks

07 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Author of Closer Than You Know Interview starts at 9:29 and ends at 43:09 "I look at certain authors that are greatly esteemed in the moment as litera...

TKC 500 Kevin Keith

03 Mar 2018

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General Manager Fire Tablets & Kindle and Amazon Echo & Alexa Product Marketing Interview starts at 15:16 and ends at 39:43 "I loved what I had heard ...

TKC 499 John Aga

24 Feb 2018

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Avid reader, longtime listener Interview starts at 12:45 and ends at 43:20 "My ideal Kindle would have real buttons and would have audio support, so t...

TKC 498 American Library Association

17 Feb 2018

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Carmela Orsini of Novel Effect (5:08 to 13:22) Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson The Little Shop of Monsters by R. L. Stine Paul Knopf,...

TKC 497 My Father William and Grandson James

10 Feb 2018

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My father William and grandson James Interview starts at 17:43 and ends at 42:24 "I've been writing a realistic fictional narrative for my class as an...

TKC 496 Meg Gardiner

03 Feb 2018

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Author of Into the Black Nowhere: An UNSUB Novel Interview starts at 18:20 and ends at 40:10 "One of the oldest stories that humanity tells itself is ...

TKC 495 Jon Fine

27 Jan 2018

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Senior Vice President & Publisher at Open Road Integrated Media Interview starts at 11:28 and ends at 34:48 "No company in publishing right now is bet...

TKC 494 Hafizah Geter

19 Jan 2018

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Editor at Little A Interview starts at 22:52 and ends at 44:24 "The trick with writing is a lot of times the more specific, the more universal somethi...

TKC 493 Dean Koontz

13 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Author of Ricochet Joe & the new Jane Hawk series Interview starts at 10:30 and ends at 41:57 "Whatever I was reading in childhood through adolescence...

TKC 492 Tom Semple

06 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Software Quality Engineer Interview starts at 12:46 and ends at 41:14 "Somehow the Goodreads would talk to the Amazon/Kindle cloud, so as new notes co...

TKC 491 Katie Ernst

30 Dec 2017

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Co-founder of Select A Story Interview starts at 8:33 and ends at 33:40 "An interactive story is essentially a series of interlocking short stories. I...

TKC 490 Mark Jarvis

23 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Doubledecker Bus Driver in London Interview starts at 11:20 and ends at 39:30 "The [Fire HD] 8 will be my Kindle that travels with me. I take it to wo...

TKC 489 James McQuivey

16 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research Interview starts at 9:06 and ends at 43:24 "I think Amazon feels pretty confident that they...

TKC 488 Esmeralda and Richard deTrafford

09 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Esmeralda and Richard deTrafford of Geraldton, Australia Interview starts at 16:35 and ends at 40:26 "I don't see any Amazon drones being launched her...

TKC 487 Bradley Metrock

02 Dec 2017

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CEO of Score Publishing, producer of Digital Book World 2018 Interview starts at 15:44 and ends at 43:43 "The Echo Show is an incredible glimpse into ...

TKC 486 Gabriella Page-Fort

25 Nov 2017

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Editorial Director, AmazonCrossing Interview starts at 18:00 and ends at 43:42 "One of the magical things about publishing is that when you get togeth...

TKC 485 Steve Kessel

18 Nov 2017

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Amazon Senior Vice President Interview starts at 20:45 and ends at 43.37 "It was the first time we were building a device, so we had a lot to learn. A...

TKC 484 Carlina Duan

11 Nov 2017

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Author of I Wore My Blackest Hair Interview starts at 12:34 and ends at 39:39 "I'm not sure about the future of Amazon [Publishing] in the literary wo...

TKC 483 David Ignatius

04 Nov 2017

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Author of The Quantum Spy Interview starts at 12:12 and ends at 34:00 "Jeff Bezos has been a great owner for The Post. He invested in our business. He...

TKC 482 All-New Kindle App for iOS and Android

28 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Kindle Creative Director Seth Micarelli, left, and Mike Torres, Kindle director of product management and design Amazon announces all-new Kindle app ...

TKC 481 Mirna Valerio

21 Oct 2017

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Author of A Beautiful Work in Progress Interview starts at 18:20 and ends at 43:17 "Whatever kind of mindset they're stuck in about whether it's weigh...

TKC 480 All-New Kindle Oasis

11 Oct 2017

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Arthur van Rest, left, GM Kindle Device & Accessories at Amazon, and Hany Ghali, Senior Product Manager, Kindle at Amazon Lab126 Interviews Arthur van...

TKC 479 Stephen Ingraham

07 Oct 2017

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Author of Point and Shoot Nature Photography Interview starts at 10:55 and ends at 40:30 "Each of us sees the beauty around us and the meaning and the...

TKC 478 Sara Nelson

29 Sep 2017

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VP & Executive Editor at the Harper Division of HarperCollins Interview starts at 21:54 and ends at 44:14 "I think publishers have some ideas about ho...

TKC 477 Jillian Vorce

23 Sep 2017

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CEO of The Jillian Group Interview starts at 12:16 and ends at 35:00 "When you build relationships for the sake of relationships, amazing things can h...

TKC 467 Jennifer Cast

15 Sep 2017

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Vice President, Amazon Books stores Interview starts at 10:48 and ends at 42:54 "We would like people who want physical books to walk out with a book,...

TKC 475 John Morgan

09 Sep 2017

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Executive Editor at Macmillan Children's Publishing Group Interview starts at13:18 and ends at 42:00 "Books these days as they are produced are pretty...

TKC 474 Nancy Pearl

02 Sep 2017

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Author of George & Lizzie Interview starts at 14:30 and ends at 44:06 "Because of their childhoods I think they approach the world in such different w...

TKC 473 Total Eclipse in Casper, Wyoming

26 Aug 2017

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Links Wyoming Eclipse Festival Vertical Horizons, co-founded by Howard Wishnow Celestron EclipSmart binoculars NASA's Eclipse web site My 360 video of...

TKC 472 David Steinberger

18 Aug 2017

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Co-founder and CEO of ComiXology Interview starts at 9:40 and ends at 38:47 "When we made the business plan 10 years ago--it's hard to remember this, ...

TKC 471 Jon P. Fine

11 Aug 2017

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Amazon's former Director of Author and Publishing Relations Interview starts at 0:22 and ends at 44:20 "I do think that there is an incredible level o...

TKC 470 Scott Parazynski

05 Aug 2017

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Author of The Sky Below Interview starts at 14:15 and ends at 41:36 "My goal with this book is to show people that it's important to have high, lofty ...

TKC 469 Harry Bingham

29 Jul 2017

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Author of The Deepest Grave (Fiona Griffiths Crime Thriller Series Book 6) Interview starts at 12:26 and ends at 42:13 "The Big 5 publishers do have a...

TKC 468 Alex Cabal

22 Jul 2017

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Founder of StandardEbooks.org Interview starts at 11:43 and ends at 40:40 "One of the criteria for the books that we accept is that we very specifical...

TKC 467 Len Vlahos

14 Jul 2017

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New co-owner of Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver Interview starts at 19:56 and ends at 43:00 "Bookstores have evolved over the years to become very...

TKC 466 Jaimal Yogis

08 Jul 2017

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Author of All our Waves Are Water: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment and the Perfect Ride Interview starts at 9:50 and ends at 35:52 "All memoirs build a...

TKC 465 Kevin Kelly

01 Jul 2017

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Author of The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future Interview starts at 18:40 and ends at 43:00 "All the vi...

TKC 464 David Wright

24 Jun 2017

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Reader's Advisory Librarian at Seattle Public Library Interview starts at 12:20 and ends at 37:05 "The Seattle Library has seen an exponential growth ...

TKC 463 Jeff O'Neal

16 Jun 2017

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Executive Editor and Co-founder of Book Riot Interview starts at 10:10 and ends at 43:25 "If publishers woke up tomorrow and sanely priced e-books, I ...

TKC 462 John Mitchinson

08 Jun 2017

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Co-founder and chief publishing officer of Unbound Interview starts at 8:56 and ends at 42:25 "It's not so much the elephant in the room. We are the r...

TKC 461 Chris Messina

02 Jun 2017

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Inventor of the Hashtag Interview starts at 12:30 and ends at 44:11 "Your pocket is now your garage, right. If one time you used to buy a car to sort ...

TKC 460 Mark Sullivan

26 May 2017

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Author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky Interview starts at 3:32 and ends at 42:21 "Not only does the guy [Pino Lella] deserve to be noted for what he did, hi...

TKC 459 Jennifer Gunnels

19 May 2017

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Co-founder of Tor Labs Interview starts at 16:53 and ends at 40:00 "This story is 14 episodes, and it is about security chief Dakota Prentiss and Matt...

TKC 458 Peter Costanzo

13 May 2017

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Digital and Archival Publishing Manager for The Associated Press Interview starts at 12:51 and ends at 40:01 "I really try to get people to understand...

TKC 457 James McQuivey

06 May 2017

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Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research Interview starts at 11:17 and ends at 36:16 "I don't think they [Amazon] really expect the ...

TKC 456 Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer

29 Apr 2017

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Author of The Doctor Is In: Dr. Ruth on Love, Life and Joie de Vivre Interview starts at 13:00 and ends at 41:17 "This is also my philosophy of life: ...

TKC 455 Naomi S. Baron

22 Apr 2017

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Author of Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World Interview starts at 10:33 and ends at 41:35 "Education increasingly wants to measure ...

TKC 454 Kes Woodward

15 Apr 2017

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Painter, art critic and historian Interview starts at 15:00 and ends at 41:14 "I remember your talking on one of your programs about Jeff Bezos's insi...

TKC 453 Bufo Calvin in Virtual Reality

08 Apr 2017

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Creator of I Love My Kindle and The Measured Circle Interview starts at 6:14 and ends at 43:10 "It would also be able to know what your preferences ar...

TKC 452 Timothy DeLizza

01 Apr 2017

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Author of "Jerry (from accounting)" Interview starts at 14:56 and ends at 45:09 "I love what Amazon is doing in terms of giving access to a platform i...

TKC 451 Patrick Coggins

25 Mar 2017

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Co-founder of Ask My Buddy Interview starts at 18:45 and ends at 41:25 "In terms of users or penetration, I would say that Google Home probably repres...

TKC 450 South By Southwest Interactive

18 Mar 2017

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David Measer of RPA Advertising and Lisa Pecot-Hebert of USC Interview starts at 25:08 and ends at 49:15 I expected the smaller cities in the U.S. to ...

TKC 449 Patricia Cornwell

10 Mar 2017

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Author of Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert Interview starts at 10:27 and ends at 41:38 "Billie Jean King is very aware of my Ripper book, and...

TKC 448 Michael Anderle

04 Mar 2017

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Author of The Kutherian Gambit series Interview starts at 10:15 and ends at 43:51 "When I originally put out Book 1 I had no idea if anyone cared ab...

TKC 447 Stephen Campbell

25 Feb 2017

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Author of Four Seasons of Reno Hart and Creator of The Author Biz podcast Interview starts at 10:33 and ends at 42:30 "The power of Amazon Publishing-...

TKC 446 Brady Dale

17 Feb 2017

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Technology Reporter at Observer.com Interview starts at 10:30 and ends at 42:19 "That's why I call this whole printed book thing fetishism. What's mor...

TKC 445 Betty Anholt

10 Feb 2017

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Historian at the Sanibel Public Library Interview starts at 3:01 and ends at 34:30 [On Anne Morrow Lindbergh:] "Going up and learning how to fly--I me...

TKC 444 Thad McIlroy

03 Feb 2017

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President of The Future of Publishing Interview starts at 8:19 and ends at 44:04 "I'm convinced that if you want to retain your job in publishing movi...

TKC 433 Mark Roberts & Patience Clevenger

27 Jan 2017

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Co-Authors of Evelyn's Lighthouse Interview starts at 14:58 and ends at 44:35 Patience: "It was really meant to inspire other younger girls or the rea...

TKC 442 Aboard the Silver Meteor

20 Jan 2017

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Our supper aboard the Silver Meteor en route to Kissimmee, Florida News "How Netflix Lost Big to Amazon in India" by Abhishek Madhaven at Backchannel ...

TKC 441 Paul Slavin

13 Jan 2017

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CEO of Open Road Integrated Media Interview starts at 14:22 and ends at 41:41   Links for Interview with Paul Slavin: Open Road Integrated Media web...

TKC 440 Will Schwalbe

07 Jan 2017

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Author of Books for Living Interview starts at 19:07 and ends at 43:15 "One of the reasons I come back to Lin Yutang is a marvelous story he tells, in...

TKC 439 Darlene's 2016 Tech Review

31 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

My Wife Darlene, Claire and a new quilt  Interview ‪starts at 12:28 and ends at44:58 "What's great about Audible is you still get to hear a story. ...

TKC 438 Matthew Rubery

24 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Author of The Untold Story of the Talking Book Interview ‪starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05 "There's often a false division between audiobook listen...

TKC 437 Richard Hollick

16 Dec 2016

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Author of the Making Book blog  Interview ‪starts at 14:03 and ends at 44:31 "The idea that Barnes & Noble can make it by sort of becoming a small ...

TKC 436 Bryan Hudson

10 Dec 2016

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Senior Pastor of New Covenant Church, Indianapolis Interview ‪starts at 7:20 and ends at 33:36 I think it's a matter of accepting the change that G...

TKC 435 Cynthia Manson

03 Dec 2016

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Head of Cynthia Manson Literary Agency Interview ‪starts at 14:30 and ends at 41:06 "The trick is that if you have an author that is struggling to f...

TKC 434 Amazon's Seira Wilson

26 Nov 2016

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Senior Books Editor at Amazon.com Interview ‪starts at 12:41 and ends at 43:35 "[The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis] is one that I personally wanted to se...