Twitter Curator of eBook/ePublishing/eLibrary news

Interview starts at 14:25

Many of the things that the authors and the publishers complain about are normal, everyday behavior in the chemical industry, in the auto industry, in the telecom industry, and the construction industry, which are industries which I’ve worked on—this is the way business works. The publishing industry doesn’t understand this, and so when Amazon does things that are normal business practices, they get very upset, because they’ve never seen this type of business before.

News

My video review of the new $79 Kindle with special offers

Fire HD6 8GB with special offers – $99

Fire HD7 8GB with special offers – $139

Mindmaps app by Endare for Kindle Fire – $3.99

“Amazon draws line between Fire tablet and Kindle e-readerâ€Â by Donna Tam at CNET – September 25, 2014

“Should Amazon acquire Best Buy or RadioShack? Pros debateâ€Â at CNBC – September 15, 2014

Tech Tips

Amazon press release introducing Fire OS 4 “Sangria†– September 17, 2014

Fire OS 4 features page at Amazon.com (scroll down)

“Kingsoft’s WPS Office Suite Comes to Fire OS 4â€Â – Kingsoft press release on September 30, 2014

Interview with Paul Biba

Paul Biba’s curated Twitter feed on eBook/ePublishing/eLibrary news

“TeleRead Editor-in-Chief Paul Biba resignsâ€Â by Paul Biba at TeleRead - July 23, 2014

Feedbin

Feedly

Mr. Reader RSS reader for iPad

PressReader for Kindle Fire

Feedly for Kindle Fire

Paul Biba’s tweets compiled each Sunday at No Shelf Required

Content

Best Books of October, as chosen by Amazon’s book editors

Vital Signs: The Nature and Nurture of Passion by Gregg Levoy

Comments

“New Kindle Getting Mixed Reviews on Screen Qualityâ€Â by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader – October 3, 2014

Next Week’s Guest

Frank Waldman, co-founder and CEO of Spritz

Outro

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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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