Author of The Martian

Interview starts at 11:39 and ends at 38:29

More people bought it from Amazon than downloaded it for free from my site, which just goes to show you how deep into the market Amazon reaches and how good they are at selling books. That got it up into the Top Sellers lists, so it got up to the Top 10 SciFi titles, and that really starts to snowball, because  once you’re there people are like “I want a new book. I don’t know what I want. I want something SciFi. What are the Top 10 sellers in SciFi?†Once you start to break into that list you really start to sell a lot.

News

Amazon Echo

Here is the dedicated Echo Support phone line number: 877-375-9365

“Amazon Launches Kindle Textbook Creator† (Amazon press release) January 22, 2105

“Amazon launches Kindle textbook tool to compete with iBooks Author†by Laura Hazard Owen at Gigaom – January 22, 2015

Download page for Kindle Textbook Creator

Tech Tips

Amazon’s Matchmaker tool for finding Audible versions of your Kindle books (requires log in to your Amazon account)

Interview with Andy Weir

The Martian: A Novel

“The Martian Has Quietly Put Together A Home Run, A-List Cast†by Mike Reyes at CinemaBlend

Top Science Fiction titles in Kindle format at Amazon.com

Content

Transparent series will be free for non-Amazon Prime members on Saturday January 23, 24, 2015 – press release

Vox Tablet podcast interview with Norman Lear – December 2, 2105

Loss at Sea: A Solo Circumnavigation by Eric Loss

The Man in the High Castle – pilot based on a novel by Philip K. Dick

Next Week

Seth Godin and more from Digital Book World

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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