Software quality engineer

and valued tech resource in the world of eReaders

Interview Starts at 15:29

With a book you just dog-ear the pages or you stick in sticky notes. You can get to one place in the book and flip back and forth really easily. And most of the reading systems, at least from main vendors, they’re really optimized for linear reading–you start at the beginning of the book, read to the end of the book–and they’re fine for that, but but if you’re doing any kind of research or more sophisticated reading it’s hard to jump around. It’s easy to set a bookmark, but at least on the Kindle platform it’s hard to get back to a bookmark. You have to make about five taps to get there. So I just think there’s a lot of opportunity there if they want to break into other types of reading like technical reading and education and things like that.

News

“The Apple iBooks Origin Story” by John Paczkowski at AllThingsD – June 14, 2013

“Apple Brings iBooks to Computers – Should Amazon Be Worried?” by Renee Butler at Seeking Alpha – June 12, 2013

Pew Internet Trend Data on U.S. adult gadget ownership

Waterfi waterproof Paperwhite

Tech Tip

OverDrive announcement of Kindle eBook availability – September 21, 2011

Interview with Tom Semple

Tom Semple’s LinkedIn profile

Content 

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone – $14.99 on Kindle (preorder for delivery October 15)

Superman: The Man of Steel (1991-2003) #1 - Free for Kindle

“More Free Kindle Comic Books!” at the Me and My Kindle blog – June 13, 2013

Interview with Jason Ojalvo, vice president for content creation at Audible.com (starts at 29:03)

Jason Ojalvo at LinkedIn

Audible.com

ACX

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.

Next Week’s Guest

Publishing blogger Porter Anderson

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