The Kindle Chronicles

TKC 433 Laura Hazard Owen

19 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Deputy Editor, Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard  Interview ‪starts at 16:02 and ends at 40:51 "I think it's become very clear that there's going to...

TKC 432 World Circumnavigator Eric Loss

12 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Captain of Sea Dragon, Author of Loss at Sea: A Solo Circumnavigation Interview ‪starts at 13:19 and ends at 36:18 "It's less difficult than it will...

TKC 431 Earplay CEO Jonathan Myers

05 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Executive Team at Earplay  Interview ‪starts at 10:28 and ends at 44:37  Left to right: Dave Grossman, Chief Creative Officer; Bruno Batarelo, Ch...

TKC 430 Author Robert Masello

29 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Author of The Jekyll Revelation published by Amazon Publishing's 47North Imprint   Interview ‪starts at 10:00 and ends at 43:22 "I used to joke aro...

TKC 429 Bufo Calvin

21 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Bufo Calvin is the creator of the I Love My Kindle blog and The Measured Circle's Geek Time Trip Interview starts at 9:49 and ends at 36:45  "If you...

TKC 428 Tina Pohlman

15 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

EVP and Publisher, Open Road Integrated Media Interview ‪starts at 15:33 and ends at 43:28 "We are not an agency publisher. So we don't have any con...

TKC 427 Chris Brogan

08 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Author of Find Your Own Voice  Interview ‪starts at 16:18 and ends at 42:39 "I don't think books are going to evolve, because I think other thing...

TKC 426 Andrew Richard Albanese

01 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Senior Writer and Features Editor at Publishers Weekly Interview ‪starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05 "The fact that we have rapidly declining eBook s...

TKC 425 James McQuivey

23 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research  Interview ‪starts at 14:34 and ends at 44:17 "It'll happen in the cloud, and it will ge...

TKC 424 John Biglow

17 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Rowing medalist, challenged reader trying a Kindle Interview ‪starts ‪at 14:43 and ends at 42:48 I remember walking home from third grade and thro...

TKC 423 Nicholson Baker

10 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Author of Substitute: Going to School With a Thousand Kids   Interview starts at 8:44 and ends at 41:26 The thing that really hit me was, this is com...

TKC 422 Chris Schluep

03 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Senior Editor, ‪Amazon.com Books  Interview starts ‪at 17:14 and ends at 44:11 "I've heard it said that summer's a great time for summer reading,...

TKC 421 Chad W. Post

27 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher of Open Letter Books  Interview starts at 15:15 and ends at 43:30 Amazon[Crossing] is filling in some of these gaps, because we haven't for...

TKC 420 Jessica Tripler on Romance

19 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

BookRiot contributor who writes about romance novels  Interview starts at 10:59 and ends at 42:21 We're sort of worshipping at the temple of love, th...

TKC 419 Sara Nelson

12 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

VP & Executive Editor, HarperCollins Publishers   Interview starts at 18:58 and ends at 43:28   There are a lot of very serious readers at Amazon,...

TKC 418 AmazonCrossing's Gabriella Page-Fort

06 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Senior Editor, AmazonCrossing   Interview starts at 17:02 and ends at 38:04 [Ayse Kulin] is one of many distinguished voices from diverse cultures th...

TKC 417 Jeff Bezos

30 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Founder and CEO of Amazon.com   Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05   Only when I read a truly great novel do I feel that I have lived an ...

TKC 416 Mike Shatzkin

23 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Founder and CEO of the Idea Logical Company   Interview starts at 8:05 and ends at 34:24   I think it's possible that we're going to wake up and say...

TKC 415 with OverDrive's David Burleigh

15 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Director of Marketing and Communication at OverDrive, Inc.  Interview starts at 15:18 and ends at 44:22 I'm happy to report that all of the Big Five ...

TKC 414 Amazon's Mike Torres on Page Flip

09 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Director, Product Management - Amazon Kindle  Interview starts at 18:09 and ends at 43:26 The biggest technical challenge I would say is creating ...

TKC 413 My Father and Grandson Talk Kindle

01 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

My Father and Grandson   Interview starts at 23:32 and ends at 44:30   News Amazon Inspire press release - June 27, 2016 "Amazon Unveils Online...

TKC 413 Jane Friedman of Open Road Media

24 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Co-Founder, Chairman and Executive Publisher of Open Road Integrated Media   Interview starts at 15:17 and ends at 44:11 I do not think that the wo...

TKC 411 BookBub, Kids Books & Trump at BEA

17 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Director of Business Development at BookBub   Interview starts at 5:64 and ends at 16:18   BookBub definitely got off the ground with self-publish...

TKC 410 Peter Hudson of Shelfie

11 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Co-Founder and CEO of Shelfie.com   Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05 We needed to find a metaphor, an analogy for the playlist or the in...

TKC 409 Chang Kim on Bite-Sized Content

03 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

CEO of Tapas Media   Interview starts at 19:22 and ends at 43:40   I believe that for publishing, even though Kindle is capturing a lot of the mob...

TKC 408 BookExpo America w/ Scott Turow, Jon Fine et al

28 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Audio recorded at BookExpo America in Chicago and related links: Jon Malinowski (2:00-4:25), president of The Combined Book Exhibit, creator of the Bo...

TKC 407 Marty Baron Interviews Jeff Bezos

20 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Jeff Bezos: We need to take The Washington Post from being a great local paper, which was a very successful strategy for decades, and transform it int...

TKC 406 Amazon's Peter Korn on Accessibility

13 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Accessibility Architect at Amazon's Lab126   Interview starts at 9:45 and ends at 39:50   We continually evaluate ways we can make reading on th...

TKC 405 Paul St John Macintosh

07 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Author, Poet and Associate Editor of TeleRead   Interview starts at 22:08 and ends at 43:10   This [Kindle Oasis] basically gives Amazon its BMW o...

TKC 404 James McQuivey

28 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research   Interview starts at 12:00 and ends at 44:01   I've got to write this down in a way th...

TKC 403 Szymon Szott

23 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Assistant Professor at AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow Poland   Interview starts at 20:15 and ends at 43:40   On the Kindle...

TKC 402 Meet Me at the Kindle Oasis

13 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Featuring Neil Lindsay, Amazon VP Devices and Chris Green, Amazon Lab 126 VP Industrial Design   This special episode of The Kindle Chronicles is a...

TKC 401 Author Douglas Rushkoff

08 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Author of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity   Interview starts at 28:24 and ends at 42:21   The peopl...

TKC 400 Anniversary Show with Darlene

02 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The Kindle Chronicles’ first listener   Interview starts at 14:54 and ends at 43:13   I should have known that we’d be building our life ar...

TKC 399 Technically Literate's Janis Cooke Newman

26 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

  Editor-at-Large, CNET’s Technically Literate   Interview starts at 19:40 and ends at 43:30   We have a very different generation comin...

TKC 398 Best South by Southwest Ever!

19 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Start and End Times of Interviews at South by Southwest Interactive Martin Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post (8:20 to 18:34) Scott Totm...

TKC 397 Andrew Albanese on Apple Refund

10 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Senior Writer, Publishers Weekly   Interview starts at 19:24 and ends at 33:23 I absolutely think it’s madness to continue to push for regul...

TKC 396 Translator K. E. Semmel

04 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

English Translator of Winter Men by Jesper Bugge Kold   Interview starts at 20:10 and ends at 41:14 I like the fact that I can tell an editor ther...

TKC 395 Author David Denby

26 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Author of Lit Up: One Reporter. Three Schools. Twenty-four Books That Can Change Lives   Interview starts at 14:49 and ends at 42:07 You worry...

TKC 394 Novelist Jesper Bugge Kold

20 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Author of Winter Men   Interview starts at 9:42 and ends at 43:24   I was very scared that it was translated into German. I really wanted it ...

TKC 393 Len Vlahos

13 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Chief Executive Officer of The Tattered Cover Book Stores   Interview starts at 10:03 and ends at 42:09   I think it would be interesting for...

TKC 392 Kindle Blogger Bufo Calvin

06 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Creator of the I Love My Kindle Blog   Interview starts at 10:46 and ends at 44:02 If people were evolving away from reading long-form reading...

TKC 391Morgan Parker

30 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Editor of Amazon’s Little A imprint and Day One magazine   Interview starts at 18:03 and ends at 42:20   A lot of editors across Amazon Pu...

TKC 390 Jane Friedman

22 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Helping authors and publishers flourish in the digital age   Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05   This question has become a little...

TKC 389 Donna Foley Mabry

16 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Author of Maude   Interview starts at 15:00 and ends at 44:33 I do have an agent who called me, and he’s representing Maude. She’s been transl...

TKC 388 Dave Slusher

09 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Creator of the Evil Genius Chronicles blog and podcast   Interview starts at 10:47 and ends at 42:22 This idea that books are exempt from the ...

TKC 387 Jim Milliot

02 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Editorial Director at Publishers Weekly   Interview starts at 16:57 and ends at 44:32   It’s far from the death of eBooks. eBooks are a perma...

TKC 386 Susan Mark

25 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Publications Specialist, Wyoming State Library   Interview starts at 20:34 and ends at 38:51   We know that libraries will continue to evolve. T...

TKC 385 Charlie Tritschler

19 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Vice President - Amazon Devices   Interview starts at 18:29 and ends at 37:47   We spent two days in an off-site with Jeff going through the exp...

TKC 384 Nick Lum

12 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Founder and CEO of BeeLine Reader   Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05   They tried it out with the first graders and found that in...

TKC 383 Bruce Jones

05 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Graphic designer, author, product developer and workshop presenter   Interview starts at 14:57 and ends at 44:47 So whatever you do, you build...

TKC 382 Donald Hall

28 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Author of The Selected Poems of Donald Hall   Interview starts at 12:51 and ends at 43:57   It was a house that my great-grandfather bought ...

TKC 381 Lenny Charnoff in Ecuador

20 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Creator of the Cuenca Tech Life blog   Interview starts at 1:29 and ends at 21:34   I just turned 70, so growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950s...

TKC 380 Andes Adventure

10 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

This is the third of my Ecuador TKC episodes, uploaded today (Tuesday November 10, 2015) from the Ali Shungu Mountaintop Resort in Otavalo. You will h...

TKC 379 Voyage of the Carina

05 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

This is the second of my Ecuador TKC episodes, uploaded today (Thursday November 5, 2015) from the cloud forest in Mindo at the Sisakuna Lodge. You wi...

TKC 378 Hola from Ecuador!

26 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

I am posting Friday's episode of the podcast very early, on Monday, this week from Quito, Ecuador, because tomorrow we leave for the Galapagos Isla...

TKC 377 Jeff Bezos (2013) and Ecuador

22 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon Highlights from my interview recorded on July 26, 2012, at Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle   The Pre-...

TKC 376 Stephen Windwalker

16 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Creator of Kindle Nation Daily and BookGorilla   Interview starts at 9:38 and ends at 39:45   Of the top 100 bestsellers in the Kindle Store for...

TKC Test Audio B for Ecuador

16 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

This is another test of my mobile podcasting gear, two days before we leave for Ecuador. I am hoping the photo of Claire and me shows up with RSS feed...

TKC 375 Alexandra Alter

10 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

The New York Times’s publishing industry reporter   Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05   For the people that are price sensitive--if ...

TKC 374 James McQuivey

03 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research   Interview starts at 14:38 and ends at 41:53   It’s not about Amazon Echo, it’s ...

TKC 373 Dina Hilal

25 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

General Manager of Amazon’s Kindle Scout   Interview starts at 16:58 and ends at 44:45   It’s really the best part of the job. There isn’t...

TKC 372 Amazon Fall Product Launch

19 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Links related to Amazon’s 2015 Fall Product Launch in San Francisco Amazon news releases on the new $50 Fire tablet, the new Fire HD 8 and Fire HD ...

TKC 371 Michael Dirda

12 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Author of Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books   Interview starts at 15:46 and ends at 42:34   My main attraction to ...

TKC 370 Mike Reeves-McMillan

05 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Author of The Well-Presented Manuscript   Interview starts at 12:13 and ends at 42:27   There are some wonderful stories that I just can’t enj...

TKC 369 Sara Nelson

29 Aug 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Editorial Director of Books and Kindle at Amazon.com   Interview starts at 14:54 and ends at 39:15   On The Story of the Lost Child: I think thi...

TKC 368 Jason Snell

22 Aug 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Six Colors   Interview starts at 17:44 and ends at 42:27   I hope the E Ink readers stick around, because I do lo...

TKC Mobile Test a

17 Aug 2015

Contributed by Lukas

I am experimenting with iPhone apps that may enable me to post episodes of the Kindle Chronicles while Darlene and I are in Ecuador and the Galapagos ...

TKC 367 Harry Bingham

15 Aug 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Creator of the Fiona Griffiths crime series   Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 37:59   Whoever heard of a retailer offering 70 percent ...

TKC 366 Carie Harling

08 Aug 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Creator of Dispatches from the Frat House   Interview starts at 14:23 and ends at 40:20   I’d like to write the kind of book that I’d like t...

TKC 365 TeleRead Editor Chris Meadows

31 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Editor of TeleRead   Interview starts at 11:26 and ends at 37:11   Even if all the publishers remove DRM from every eBook they sell tomorrow, I ...

TKC 364 David Gaughran

24 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Author of Let’s Get Digital and Let’s Get Visible   Interview starts at 16:56 and ends at 44:39   If you look at stores like Barnes and Nobl...

TKC 363 Amy Edelman

18 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Founder and President of IndieReader.com   Interview starts at 11:46 and ends at 41:02   It’s very hard to tell a self-published book these d...

TKC 362 Darlene

11 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

TKC 361 John Sullivan

02 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Project Manager and TKC Listener   Interview starts at 13:52 and ends at 39:03   I have the books that I read, and I read the books that I have....

TKC 360 Kindle Senior VP Russ Grandinetti

25 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Amazon’s Senior Vice President - Kindle   Interview starts at 10:17 and ends at 42:35   My guess is that if you asked all the publishers with ...

TKC 359 Daniel Cubias

20 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Author of Barrio Imbroglio   Interview starts at 14:24 and ends at 38:38   There’s an incentive for Amazon on two levels to say, “Hey, let’...

TKC 358 Michelle Miller

12 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Author of The Underwriting   Interview starts at 19:39 and ends at 39:40   I was a first-time novelist; I didn’t have a name at all. So ...

TKC 357 Prof. Krystine Batcho

06 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Professor at Le Moyne College   Interview starts at 17:02 and ends at 44:15   If it keeps your attention, and you’re enjoying it, and it’s...

TKC 356 Denver Comic Con

30 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Intro Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback, 1993) by Scott McCloud    Interviews at Denver Comic Con (Times show when each intervi...

TKC 355 Hunter Maats & Katie O'Brien

23 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Authors of The Straight-A Conspiracy   Interview starts at 13:10 and ends at 41:52   What the brain science says is that if you’ve learned o...

TKC 354 Craig Lambert on Shadow Work

16 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Author of Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day   Interview starts at 21:13 and ends at 39:30   Becoming aware of shadow wor...

TKC Test Audio

14 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

INSERT PHOTO OF CUTE DOG HERE   I have tweaked my workflow for uploading new episodes of the show and want to make sure it works before I begin cre...

TKC 353 Robert Martin at NMX

08 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Director of the Isaacson School for New Media, Colorado Mountain College Presentation starts at 5:32 and ends at 43:55 In the 1930s, Walter Benjamin w...

TKC 352 Douglas Rushkoff

02 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Author of Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now Interview starts at 13:37 and ends at 36:56 I remember a long time ago when Timothy Leary saw one...

TKC 351 Julie Carey of Write Our World

25 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Founder of Write Our World Interview starts at 19:15 and ends at 39:47 The necessity of writing a book requires that they talk to the elders in their ...

TKC 350 New Media Expo in Las Vegas #NMX

17 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Links NMX New Media Expo in Las Vegas Tom Webster of Edison Research Monthly podcast listening statistics from Edison Research – February 15, 2015 P...

TKC 349 Ashleigh Gardner

10 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Director of Content at Wattpad Interview starts at 17:50 and ends at 37:37 I think that Wattpad's a great place for people to be able to tell their ow...

TKC 348 R. U. Sirius and Jay Cornell

03 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Co-authors of Transcendence Interview starts at 8:31 and ends at 38:29 As an historical upward swing, people can view all this as ways of increasing o...

TKC 347 Tom Semple

27 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Software Quality Engineer in Santa Clara, California Interview starts at 13:06 and ends at 39:32 So if you have Evernote installed on your Fire, then...

TKC 346 Eric Migicovsky at SXSW

21 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Founder and CEO of Pebble Technology Corp. Interview starts at 7:54 and ends at 19:50 What we found is that as long as you're open, and the watch is a...

TKC 345 James McQuivey

13 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research Interview starts at 17:05 and ends at 40:13 I think the problem with the written word is th...

TKC 344 Sara Nelson

07 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Editorial Director, Amazon.com Interview starts at 17:17 and ends at 38:50 Dead Wake: Well this is Erik Larson, and if Erik Larson told me somebody ha...

TKC 343 Juli Monroe

28 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Editor-in-Chief of TeleRead Interview starts at 17:22 and ends at 39:20 If large-screen smartphones were going to replace the tablet, I would assume t...

TKC 342 Patti Thorn of Blue Ink Review

21 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Co-founder of Blue Ink Review Interview starts at 17:15 and ends at 43:24 The people who are putting out quality books in self-publishing are actuall...

TKC 341 Christopher Weyant and Anna Kang

14 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Illustrator and Author of You Are (Not) Small Interview starts at 14:32 and ends at 37:56. Chris: Anyone with kids who watches someone read for the fi...

TKC 340 Thad McIlroy

07 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Author of Mobile Strategies for Digital Publishing Interview starts at 13:21 and ends at 37:37. There may not be a lot of new readers coming into th...

TKC 339 Seth Godin at Digital Book World

30 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Author, entrepreneur, maker of ruckuses Interview starts at 4:33 and ends at 14:50. Paper books are going to gradually and painfully and very, very sl...

TKC 338 Andy Weir

24 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Author of The Martian Interview starts at 11:39 and ends at 38:29 More people bought it from Amazon than downloaded it for free from my site, which ju...

TKC 337 Russ Grandinetti at Digital Book World

15 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Amazon's senior vice president for Kindle We can all observe the fact that in every single digital media category subscriptions is playing an importan...