Editorial Director of Amazon.com

Interview starts at 20:43

On the Amazon book team’s pick for September’s spotlight debut title, Fives and Twenty-Fives by Michael Pitre: “Books about the war, any war, certainly a war that is current are very, very hard sells to customers. I think people often feel like they don’t want to read it, because they’re reading it in the newspaper or they’re hearing about it on the news, but this book transcended the genre.”

News

Basic Kindle without Special Offers out of stock at Amazon.com

“Amazon Invites Children’s Book Authors to Kindle Direct Publishing, Rolls Out Kids’ Book Creator Applicationâ€Â by Sarah Perez at TechCrunch – September 3, 2014

Amazon press release announcing KDP Kids – September 3, 2014

Tech Tips

Peggo app for creating mp3 files from YouTube and Soundcloud audio

Critical Margins Podcast episode 12: How to Write for the Cloud

Interview with Sara Nelson

Amazon.com Best Books of the Month – September

The Bone Clocks: A Novel by David Mitchell – September Spotlight pick by Amazon’s book editors

Fives and Twenty-Fives by Michael Pitre – September Debut Spotlight pick

The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers

Redeployment by Phil Klay

Bill Cosby: His Life and Times by Mark Whitaker

I’ll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist by Betty Halbreich with Rebecca Paley

Sara Nelson’s interview with Betty Halbreich at Omnivoracious blog – September 4, 2014

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

The Big Fall Books Preview at Amazon.com

Amazon release on Big Fall Books – August 19, 2014

Revival: A Novel by Stephen King – set for release November 11, 2014

Edge of Eternity: Book Three of the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett – set for release September 16, 2014

Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learnedâ€Â by Lena Dunham – set for release September 30, 2014

Content

“Biblio Mysteries†recommended by listener Richard Marpet:

The Bookman’s Tale: A Novel of Obsession by Charlie Lovett

The Bookseller (Hugo Marston) by Mark Pryor

Ex-Libris by Ross King (Kindle edition not available)

The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte

The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Book 1) by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Dido Hoare Mysteries by Marianne MacDonald

Hardcover by Wayne Warga (Kindle edition not available)

The Kindle Chronicles app at Amazon’s Appstore for Android

Alcoholics Anonymous 4th Edition

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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