The Kindle Chronicles

The Kindle Chronicles


Latest Episodes

TKC 307 Fire Phone Launch
June 19, 2014

Dave Limp, Senior Vice President - Amazon Devices Interview starts at 27:17 A good example of a use case on reading, whether it’s the autoscroll in a web page or autoscroll in a book, is on a train. Lots of people in this world commute, and they read w

TKC 306 Russ Grandinetti
June 14, 2014

Senior Vice President - Amazon Kindle Interview starts at 18:20 We have made an experience that has helped people feel actually like they’re getting real value to pay seven, eight, nine,  ten bucks for text in the form of bits. And we think that’s a

TKC 305 Stephen Windwalker
June 06, 2014

Creator of Kindle Nation Daily and BookGorilla Interview starts at 15:56 Amazon has built this colossus in the retail industry by having the best pricing and the best availability ever imagined. And now what Amazon has done is basically to say that it’

TKC 304 Ed Park
May 31, 2014

Senior Editor for Literary Fiction at Amazon Publishing Interview starts at 10:22  One of the things when I was teaching is I would have these students who had a lot of promise, and I would encourage them. I would try to find magazine editors or agents

TKC 303 Ann Kingman & Michael Kindness
May 24, 2014

Hosts of the Books on the Nightstand Podcast Interview starts at 16:12 (Photo by Katie Loss) [Ann Kingman]: We are very vehemently anti-book snobbery. We don’t care what people read. We try not to look down on anybody for any reading choices they make

TKC 302 Tom Semple
May 16, 2014

Software quality engineer in Santa Clara, California Interview starts at 18:15 To me it’s really frustrating that you can’t get your notes and highlights easily. The minimal thing they could do is put on Manage Your Kindle, you pick a book and you sa

TKC 301 Sara Nelson
May 09, 2014

Editorial Director for Amazon.com books Interview starts at 21:41 The kinds of books that we call out—we do see that some of them go on to be successful. Did we call it, or did we cause it? I don’t know. I wouldn’t claim credit for it, but I’m th

TKC 300 Baratunde Thurston
May 03, 2014

Author of How To Be Black Interview starts at 15:46 What is the point of me having a relationship with MailChimp and a powerful email newsletter and social platforms through Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus with all these followers and community members?

TKC 299 Marie-Pierre Sangouard
April 26, 2014

Amazon’s Director of Kindle Content Acquisition for France Interview starts at 14:00 In France, publishers set the price of the digital version at 25 to 30 percent less than the physical book’s price, but when when the title becomes a mass-market pap

TKC 298 Molly Hawthorne
April 18, 2014

Retired Special Ed Teacher and Kindle Reader Interview starts at 19:42 I read The New York Times Book Magazine on Sundays, and I belong to a book group, and there are suggestions there. If I come across anything in the newspaper or whatever, then I chec