The Kindle Chronicles

The Kindle Chronicles


Latest Episodes

TKC 257 Andrew Richard Albanese
July 06, 2013

Senior writer and features editor at Publishers Weekly Interview Starts at 13:42 Heavy eBook consumers still do like their E Ink readers, and that's a significant part of eBook sales. The fact that Apple only has the iPad and the iPhone and etc.--it onl

TKC 256 Gabra Zackman
June 29, 2013

Actress and Audible.com narrator Interview Starts at 24:45 I think the experience of reading a book oneself and listening to it are profoundly different. I will say that I do think the narrator of an audiobook becomes an incredibly important part of the

TKC 255 Porter Anderson
June 21, 2013

Journalist, Critic & Publishing Analyst Interview Starts at 15:51 I think that Old Publishing has good things to say to us. I think some of those houses could turn around and tell us, "Wait a minute. We are the homes of Steinbeck and Tennessee Williams.

TKC 254 Tom Semple
June 15, 2013

Software quality engineer and valued tech resource in the world of eReaders Interview Starts at 15:29 With a book you just dog-ear the pages or you stick in sticky notes. You can get to one place in the book and flip back and forth really easily. And mo

TKC 253 Nader Kabbani
June 07, 2013

Amazon's Vice President for Independent Publishing Interview Starts at 19:17 Our vision is to have the author publish once and have their consumers read their book everywhere, and everywhere means three things for us: Number one is all geographies in al

TKC 252 Russ Grandinetti at BookExpo America
May 31, 2013

Amazon's Vice President of Kindle Content Interview Starts at 22:38 One of the other things that we really love about Goodreads is it works great no matter how you read. And that's something that we really want to make sure that we don't change.  So i

TKC 251 Kevin Franco
May 24, 2013

President and Cofounder of Enthrill  Interview Starts at 19:27 Our system really will reward stores for doing what they do best, and that's getting customers interested in books. We're the only true answer for discovery for eBooks that doesn't deal wit

TKC 250 Vivienne Roumani
May 17, 2013

Director of "Out of Print" Interview Starts at 16:37 He [Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos] wanted to give me a half an hour--he gave me 45 minutes. And it was really an amazing interview. He was very bright, very warm, very gracious, and you got the sense that he

TKC 249 Guy Kawasaki
May 10, 2013

Founder of Alltop,  author of APE: Author Publisher Entrepreneur - How to Publish a Book Interview Starts at 13:55 People say, "Well, Guy, if you're successful and more people become self-publishers there's going to be more crap out there." That's tr

TKC 248 Sam Tanenhaus
May 04, 2013

New York Times writer at large, former editor of The Times' Sunday Book Review, and longtime host of The Book Review podcast Interview Starts at 16:29 When I say, "Well, Mr. Amis, it seems to me this is what your novel does," and he says, "Well no. Th