The Kindle Chronicles

The Kindle Chronicles


Latest Episodes

TKC 366 Carie Harling
August 07, 2015

Creator of Dispatches from the Frat House   Interview starts at 14:23 and ends at 40:20   I’d like to write the kind of book that I’d like to read. And immediately there’s that thing in your head that...

TKC 365 TeleRead Editor Chris Meadows
July 31, 2015

Editor of TeleRead   Interview starts at 11:26 and ends at 37:11   Even if all the publishers remove DRM from every eBook they sell tomorrow, I would be the vast majority of Amazon Kindle customers would go right on being Amazon...

TKC 364 David Gaughran
July 24, 2015

Author of Let’s Get Digital and Let’s Get Visible   Interview starts at 16:56 and ends at 44:39   If you look at stores like Barnes and Noble and Kobo and Apple, I don’t think they’ve even caught up to where the...

TKC 363 Amy Edelman
July 18, 2015

Founder and President of IndieReader.com   Interview starts at 11:46 and ends at 41:02   It’s very hard to tell a self-published book these days from one that is traditionally published.   News David Pogue’s...

TKC 362 Darlene
July 10, 2015

My wife the amazing art quilter and Kindle enthusiast   Interview starts at 14:08 and ends at 39:48   A friend of mine said, “How many times have you dropped a Paperwhite in the tub?” And she’s right. I never have....

TKC 361 John Sullivan
July 01, 2015

Project Manager and TKC Listener   Interview starts at 13:52 and ends at 39:03   I have the books that I read, and I read the books that I have. The ones that I collect now are meaningful to me.    News “Apple Loses...

TKC 360 Kindle Senior VP Russ Grandinetti
June 25, 2015

Amazon’s Senior Vice President - Kindle   Interview starts at 10:17 and ends at 42:35   My guess is that if you asked all the publishers with whom we’ve reached agreement in the last year they would tell you that they had to...

TKC 359 Daniel Cubias
June 19, 2015

Author of Barrio Imbroglio   Interview starts at 14:24 and ends at 38:38   There’s an incentive for Amazon on two levels to say, “Hey, let’s try to bring in readers.” And one way of bringing in readers is you...

TKC 358 Michelle Miller
June 12, 2015

Author of The Underwriting   Interview starts at 19:39 and ends at 39:40   I was a first-time novelist; I didn’t have a name at all. So it was a great way to find my audience before I tried to find an agent and a publisher. I...

TKC 357 Prof. Krystine Batcho
June 05, 2015

Professor at Le Moyne College   Interview starts at 17:02 and ends at 44:15   If it keeps your attention, and you’re enjoying it, and it’s making you think—that’s the book for you. News “Trade Sales Fell...