The Kindle Chronicles

The Kindle Chronicles


Latest Episodes

TKC 414 Amazon's Mike Torres on Page Flip
July 08, 2016

Director, Product Management - Amazon Kindle  Interview starts at 18:09 and ends at 43:26 The biggest technical challenge I would say is creating a seamless Page Flip reading experience across all of our platforms. Page Flip...

TKC 413 My Father and Grandson Talk Kindle
July 01, 2016

My Father and Grandson   Interview starts at 23:32 and ends at 44:30   News Amazon Inspire press release - June 27, 2016 “Amazon Unveils Online Education Service for Educators” by Natasha Singer at The New York Times - June 27, 2016 ...

TKC 413 Jane Friedman of Open Road Media
June 23, 2016

Co-Founder, Chairman and Executive Publisher of Open Road Integrated Media   Interview starts at 15:17 and ends at 44:11 I do not think that the world of print survived and now will thrive at the expense of eBooks. I think eBooks will coexist...

TKC 411 BookBub, Kids Books & Trump at BEA
June 17, 2016

Director of Business Development at BookBub   Interview starts at 5:64 and ends at 16:18   BookBub definitely got off the ground with self-published authors. They’re often the first people in the industry to experiment with a new...

TKC 410 Peter Hudson of Shelfie
June 10, 2016

Co-Founder and CEO of Shelfie.com   Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05 We needed to find a metaphor, an analogy for the playlist or the inbound link when it came to books. What we found is that bookshelves are an incredibly good...

TKC 409 Chang Kim on Bite-Sized Content
June 03, 2016

CEO of Tapas Media   Interview starts at 19:22 and ends at 43:40   I believe that for publishing, even though Kindle is capturing a lot of the mobile market, I think there are still innovations to be made. In terms of marketplace players...

TKC 408 BookExpo America w/ Scott Turow, Jon Fine et al
May 27, 2016

Audio recorded at BookExpo America in Chicago and related links: Jon Malinowski (2:00-4:25), president of The Combined Book Exhibit, creator of the Book Fair Buddy app on iOS and Android platforms.      Pubmatch.com “Authorship in...

TKC 407 Marty Baron Interviews Jeff Bezos
May 19, 2016

Jeff Bezos: We need to take The Washington Post from being a great local paper, which was a very successful strategy for decades, and transform it into a great national and global paper. We have the capability to do that, and as we do that we’re...

TKC 406 Amazon's Peter Korn on Accessibility
May 13, 2016

Accessibility Architect at Amazon’s Lab126   Interview starts at 9:45 and ends at 39:50   We continually evaluate ways we can make reading on the Kindle more enjoyable, more comfortable, more accessible. This led us to create the...

TKC 405 Paul St John Macintosh
May 06, 2016

Author, Poet and Associate Editor of TeleRead   Interview starts at 22:08 and ends at 43:10   This [Kindle Oasis] basically gives Amazon its BMW or its Mercedes Benz, which is a pretty powerful draw for the entire range. It has produced a...