The New York Times’s publishing industry reporter   Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05   For the people that are price sensitive--if you’re not somebody that reads digitally because you prefer that, because you find...

Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research   Interview starts at 14:38 and ends at 41:53   It’s not about Amazon Echo, it’s about putting microphones in various contexts in your life. Plug one in, like a Glade...

General Manager of Amazon’s Kindle Scout   Interview starts at 16:58 and ends at 44:45   It’s really the best part of the job. There isn’t a day that goes by that I’m not either extremely proud as a publisher or...

Links related to Amazon’s 2015 Fall Product Launch in San Francisco Amazon news releases on the new $50 Fire tablet, the new Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 10 tablets, new Fire Kids Edition, new Fire TV with 4K Ultra HD and Fire TV Stick with voice...

Author of Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books   Interview starts at 15:46 and ends at 42:34   My main attraction to a Kindle is only age-related. If my vision deteriorates enough that I need to make the type...

Author of The Well-Presented Manuscript   Interview starts at 12:13 and ends at 42:27   There are some wonderful stories that I just can’t enjoy, because the author has done such a poor job with the language.  One of the...

Editorial Director of Books and Kindle at Amazon.com   Interview starts at 14:54 and ends at 39:15   On The Story of the Lost Child: I think this is going to break Elena Ferrante out as a bona fide super star in this country. And nobody...

Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Six Colors   Interview starts at 17:44 and ends at 42:27   I hope the E Ink readers stick around, because I do love them. But it’s going to be a niche market. It’s going to be for people who are...

I am experimenting with iPhone apps that may enable me to post episodes of the Kindle Chronicles while Darlene and I are in Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands this fall. I won't bring my MacBook Air, but it looks as if the tools for mobile podcasting...

Creator of the Fiona Griffiths crime series   Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 37:59   Whoever heard of a retailer offering 70 percent royalty? It’s never happened before. How’s that not a good thing for authors? So...