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TKC 297 David P. Vandagriff
Attorney and Creator of The Passive Voice blog Interview starts at 17:13 In my opinion, any midlist author that sticks with a traditional publisher is crazy, because I personally know a number of formerly midlist traditionally publishing authors who are
TKC 296 James McQuivey & Amazon Fire TV
Author of Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation It could literally just be a bluetooth microphone that you clip to yourself, and maybe it’s combined in a pedometer or a wristwatch or a something else. All it does is listen for spe
TKC 295 Austin Kleon
Author of Show Your Work: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered Interview starts at 17:56 One of the things I always tell people is, “You’re not guaranteed a living from this. I think what you’re guaranteed is a life.†You can s
TKC 294 Kevin Eagan
Founder and Editor of Critical Margins blog and podcast Interview starts at 14:16 I want people to see online content as something that’s in flux. We have such a great opportunity right now for people to see us as human beings, right? That we are co
TKC 293 South by Southwest
Show Notes and Links:  News “What’s the Best Amazon Prime Alternative?â€Â by Matt Burns at TechCrunch - March 13, 2014 Amazon Prime information at Amazon.com No word on a price increase for Amazon’s Prime Air drone delivery service! Tech Tip Ki
TKC 292 George Packer
Author of The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America  Interview starts at 5:55 I don’t have the view that you might have and that some of your listeners might have, which is that there’s something completely corrupt about traditional publi
TKC 291 Corina Koch MacLeod
Co-founder, with Carla Douglas, of Beyond Paper Editing Interview Starts at 19:52 You can take a document that you have purchased through Amazon--you can mark up all your annotations, and those are stored in the cloud, which is absolutely brilliant, b
TKC 290 Richard Bach
Author of Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student and Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition Interview Starts at 10:30 The wonderful thing about working with Kindle Singles is—Wham!—there it is! It was like meeting a publ
TKC 289 David Blum
Editor of Kindle Singles Interview Starts at 16:24  The virtue of Kindle Singles is we don’t say to writers, "Cut for the sake of fitting an ad in." We cut only for purposes of artistic vision, and similarly we can add for the same reason. Show Not
TKC 288 Steven Levy
Author of Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything Interview Starts at 17:39 Physical books will be something for specialists. People will like them maybe the way some people like vinyl records now, but cert