Vice President for Editorial and Content Innovation

Semi-Linear, creator of the Citia app

Interview Starts at 22:16

What we’re doing at Semi-Linear with our Citia app is partnering with big publishers like HarperCollins, Hachette, and Penguin and saying, “Let us take a crack at some of your interesting and best-selling science and technology titles, and let us come up with a version that gives a reader the chance to navigate for themselves through a shorter version of the book, and if they’re then interested then go on to buy the full version of the book.”

News

Amazon earnings release - January 29, 2013

The Guardian‘s report on Amazon quarterly earnings

“How Amazon Trained Its Investors to Behave,” Harvard Business Review blog post January 30, 2013 by Justin Fox

“Amazon’s Kindle Fire Burning Up the Android Chart” - Fast Company, January 28, 2013

Amazon.com outage, as reported by Gizmodo

“Barnes & Noble Closures: 110s of Stores To Go According to Top Executive” in Huffington Post – January 30, 2013

Video of Laura Hazard Owen interviewed at Digital Book World conference on future of Barnes & Noble.

Dennis Johnson, co-founder of Melville House, interview with Robin Young on WBUR’s “Here & Now” – February 1, 2013

Melville House publisher website

Tech Tips

Copia

GetJar mobile

kindle.amazon.com

The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise? by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith – $12.99

It’s Not About the Tights: An Owner’s Manual on Bravery by Chris Brogan – $4.95

Peter Meyers Interview

Semi-Linear on LinkedIn

Citia website

“Welcome to Pine Point” by The Goggles

Kindle Fire: The Missing Manual by Peter Meyers – $9.99

Breaking the Page by Peter Meyers – free preview

Previous Kindle Chronicles interviews with Peter Meyers in May, 2011, and February, 2012.

Content

Chief Inspector Gamache mysteries by Louise Penny available at amazon.ca and at amazon.com

Ten Books that Made Bill Gates Think - links go to review of each book by Gates

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2. The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence has Declined by Steven Pinker
   
3. Deng Xiaoping by Ezra Vogel
   
4. The Quest by Daniel Yergin
   
5. Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
   
6. Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
   
7. One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World? by Gordon Conway
   
8. A World-Class Education by Vivien Stewart
   
9. Academically Adrift by Richard Arum & Joshipa Roksa
   
10. This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff
    
11. The City that Became Safe: New York’s Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control by Franklin Zimring
    

Here are the links to Bill Gates-recommended books at the Kindle Store (with Associates coding that will benefit TKC if you purchase them, without adding to the price):

The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence has Declined by Steven Pinker – $9.99

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra Vogel – $23.17 (926 pages!)

The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin

Moonwalking with Einstein:The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer – $9.99

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death and hope in a Mumbai undercity by Katherine Boo – $12.99

One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World? by Gordon Conway – $14.72

A World-Class Education: Learning from International Models of Excellence and Innovation by Vivien Stewart – $14.82

Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses by Richard Arum & Joshipa Roksa – $5.13

This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff – $9.18 (or rental from $4.03)

The City that Became Safe: New York’s Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control by Franklin Zimring – $12.09

Recommended by George from Tulsa: A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life by Steven Kotler  $1.99 Kindle and $4.99 Audible

Amazon press release February 1, 2013 on exclusive rights to Downton Abbey

The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Surfing…and Love by Jaimal Yogis.

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, courtesy of IODA Promonet.

Upcoming Interviews

TKC 236 next week: Jamail Yogis, author of The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Surfing…and Love

TKC 237 on Feb 8: “Kindles in Paradise” – a conversation with my wife Darlene on St. John, USVI, on how she likes her new PaperWhite.

Kindle Fire Sweepstakes

Congratulations to the winner, John Aga. Click here to see Claire choosing his name from the that.