The Kindle Chronicles

The Kindle Chronicles


Latest Episodes

TKC 404 James McQuivey
April 28, 2016

Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research   Interview starts at 12:00 and ends at 44:01   I’ve got to write this down in a way that helps people understand how this cycle works, where technology comes in and allows us to...

TKC 403 Szymon Szott
April 23, 2016

Assistant Professor at AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow Poland   Interview starts at 20:15 and ends at 43:40   On the Kindle Oasis: "I remember the first eBook readers that were available in Poland cost about that...

TKC 402 Meet Me at the Kindle Oasis
April 12, 2016

Featuring Neil Lindsay, Amazon VP Devices and Chris Green, Amazon Lab 126 VP Industrial Design   This special episode of The Kindle Chronicles is all about the new Kindle Oasis, based on an embargoed preview of the device that I attended in New...

TKC 401 Author Douglas Rushkoff
April 08, 2016

Author of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity   Interview starts at 28:24 and ends at 42:21   The people who are throwing rocks at the Google bus, they’re on to something. The understand...

TKC 400 Anniversary Show with Darlene
April 01, 2016

The Kindle Chronicles’ first listener   Interview starts at 14:54 and ends at 43:13   I should have known that we’d be building our life around it like we have other things that you’ve done. I’ve gotten used...

TKC 399 Technically Literate's Janis Cooke Newman
March 26, 2016

  Editor-at-Large, CNET’s Technically Literate   Interview starts at 19:40 and ends at 43:30   We have a very different generation coming up who may relate to literature in a different way, because we have completely...

TKC 398 Best South by Southwest Ever!
March 18, 2016

Start and End Times of Interviews at South by Southwest Interactive Martin Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post (8:20 to 18:34) Scott Totman, head of digital product engineering at Capital One 22:16 to 31:30) Rob Holzer, founder and CEO...

TKC 397 Andrew Albanese on Apple Refund
March 10, 2016

Senior Writer, Publishers Weekly   Interview starts at 19:24 and ends at 33:23 I absolutely think it’s madness to continue to push for regulatory input into the eBook market. Look what it did for you last time. Let’s just let...

TKC 396 Translator K. E. Semmel
March 04, 2016

English Translator of Winter Men by Jesper Bugge Kold   Interview starts at 20:10 and ends at 41:14 I like the fact that I can tell an editor there [at AmazonCrossing] that this book is something that you should really look for, and they...

TKC 395 Author David Denby
February 26, 2016

Author of Lit Up: One Reporter. Three Schools. Twenty-four Books That Can Change Lives   Interview starts at 14:49 and ends at 42:07 You worry about the next generation of readers. Is literature going to survive? It seems to be surviving...