Amazon’s Director of Kindle Content Acquisition for France

Interview starts at 14:00

In France, publishers set the price of the digital version at 25 to 30 percent less than the physical book’s price, but when when the title becomes a mass-market paper book, some publishers still set the price at the same price or maybe higher. So of course it’s difficult to understand from a customer perspective, and it’s a clear blocker of the development of the market segment.

News

“Amazon Slumps as Increased Spending Limits Profit Growthâ€Â by Adam Satariano and Sarah Frier at Bloomberg – April 25, 2014

Amazon earnings press release - April 24, 2014

The Playboy Interview: Moguls (including 2000 interview with Jeff Bezos) – $4.99 on Kindle

“Beyond 3D: Inside Amazon’s smartphoneâ€Â by Zach Epstein at Boy Genius Report – April 22, 2014

Tech Tip

“Amazon Merges Kindle Personal Documents with Cloud Driveâ€Â by Sarah Perez at TechCrunch – April 16, 2014

Interview with Marie-Pierre Sangouard

Uber.com

Fnac web site

La rentrée littéraire in France when a large number of new books are published

Amazon.fr Kindle web site

Darty - French chain of stores selling Kindles

Les gens heureux lisent et boivent du café by Anges Martin-lugand – EUR 2,99 on Kindle at Amazon.fr

Au Coeur du Solstice by Jacques Vandroux – EUR 3.99 on Kindle at Amazon.fr  (Due out in English translation in the next three to four months from Amazon Crossing)

Content

Books on the Nightstand podcast hosted by Michael Kindness and Ann Kingman

Booktopia author weekends

A Beautiful Truth by Colin Mcadam – $9.99 on Kindle

The Steady Running of the Hour by Justin Go – $11.89 on Kindle

Burn Out by Kristi Helvig – $9.99 on Kindle

Comments

Kindle for Samsung app info at Amazon.com

“Samsung, Amazon to Launch Do-Branded Kindle Appâ€Â by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader – April 17, 2014

Next Week’s Show:

Next week will be a milestone—Episode 300. I’m hoping to have as my guest for TKC 300 the comedian, author, and entrepreneur Baratunde Thurston, who was my very first guest in July, 2008, when I started the Kindle Chronicles.  If you’d like to leave an audio comment for next week’s 300th show, that would be great, the shorter the better. You can email me an .mp3 file at podchronicles at Gmail Dot com if you know how to do that, or you can call the Kindle Chronicles comment line which is mentioned in at the end of this week’s show.

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