The Kindle Chronicles

The Kindle Chronicles


TKC 296 James McQuivey & Amazon Fire TV

April 05, 2014


Author of Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation



It could literally just be a bluetooth microphone that you clip to yourself, and maybe it’s combined in a pedometer or a wristwatch or a something else. All it does is listen for specific commands, like “Amazon, send me toothpaste.†Well Amazon would know exactly which toothpaste to send me.



Interview starts at 1:56


Show Notes and Links:

Amazon Dash


Interview with James McQuivey


“Disrupting Disruption at the AAP Annual Meetingâ€Â by Calvin Reid at Publishers Weekly – March 21, 2014


Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation by James McQuivey – $3.99 on Kindle


Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier – $10.99 on Kindle


Book subscription providers Oyster and Scribd


News and Interviews at Amazon’s NYC Press Event


Uber


Amazon Fire TV information at Amazon.com


Amazon Game Studios


“Amazon Game Studios Introduces ‘Sev Zero’ for Amazon Fire TVâ€Â - press release April 2, 2014


“Amazon Fire TV: Questions and Answers (and video)” by Lance Ulanoff at Mashable – April 2, 2014


Don’t miss Garrett Riley’s comparison of Apple TV with Amazon Fire TV in the latest episode of his Tech Grab Bag Podcast.


Next Week’s Guest:


David Vandagriff, creator of The Passive Voice blog: A Lawyer’s Thoughts on Authors, Self-Publishing and Taditional Publishing”


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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.


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