Editorial Director, Amazon.com

Interview starts at 17:17 and ends at 38:50

Dead Wake: Well this is Erik Larson, and if Erik Larson told me somebody had tied their shoes in an interesting way, I think I would read the book.

News

“Amazon may soon launch a wireless service†(video) – Nicholas Thompson, editor of NewYorker.com, on CBS News.

“Pros and cons of e-reading†by Richard Hollick at Making Book – February 28, 2015

Rave review of Amazon Echo from Leo Laporte and Mike Elgan (video) – February 11, 2015

“Regional Grocer Wegmans Unseats Amazon to Claim Top Corporate Reputation Ranking†at Harris Poll – February 4, 2015

Tech Tip

Kindlebox

Interview with Sara Nelson, editorial director at Amazon.com

Best Books of the Month selected by Amazon’s book editors

Grove Atlantic

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

Check out this terrific YouTube video featuring author Helen Macdonald.

Aquarium by David Vann

Bettyville: A Memoir by George Hodgman (March Spotlight Selection)

Hausfrau: A Novel by Jill Alexander Essbaum (March Featured Debut Selection)

The Last Flight of Poxl West: A Novel by Daniel Torday

Barefoot Dogs: Stories by Antonio Ruiz-Camacho

All the Old Knives by Olen Steinhauer

The Animals: A Novel by Christian Kiefer

The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot by Blaine Harden

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

Also by Erik Larson: In The Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin, Devil in the White City: A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America

Future Crimes: Everything is Connected, Everyone is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It by Marc Goodman

Omnivoracious blog, a.k.a The Amazon Book Review

Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the 70s & the 80s by Brad Gooch

Content

“Time for a Change,†my first Wattpad publication

Click here for link to Apple’s livestream of the March 9 (10 a.m. PST) press event launching the Apple Watch

Pebble watch

Next Week’s Guest

James McQuivey vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research

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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