The Kindle Chronicles

The Kindle Chronicles


Latest Episodes

TKC 247 Jason Merkoski
April 26, 2013

Member of Amazon's original Kindle development team author of Burning the Page: The eBook revolution and the future of reading Interview Starts at 19:16 I love Amazon in the sense that it really understands building things in what I'll call an agile w

TKC 246 Robert Darnton
April 19, 2013

Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard Librarian, and key visionary for Digital Public Library of America Interview Starts at 16:16 Now the strategy is not to have a five-year plan with an enormous budget of that sort but rather one that wou

TKC 245 Otis Chandler
April 13, 2013

Founder and CEO of Goodreads.com Interview Starts at 9:43 Goodreads is a place today for readers of all platforms, no matter how they read the book--whether it be a Kindle or Nook or a physical book, etc., to share what they thought of the book and fin

TKC 244 Douglas Rushkoff
April 06, 2013

Author of Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now Interview Starts at 17:33 Remember we were going to write in our underwear from our homes and do what we wanted and and slack? And then it slowly but surely turned into this kind of poster child for

TKC 243 Tom Helleberg
March 29, 2013

Business Manager at New York University Press  Interview Starts at 23:21 In terms of what we're projecting for the end of '13, we think we're going to come in at about 14 percent all-electronic, and the vast majority of that is currently Kindle. Fifty

TKC 242 Amy Harmon
March 23, 2013

This episode is sponsored by GoToMeeting Author of Asperger Love: Searching for Romance When You're Not Wired to Connect Interview Starts at 22:42 I was so impressed by Jack and Kirsten's perseverance in trying to explain themselves to each other.

TKC 241 Len Edgerly (interviewed by Mark Roberts)
March 15, 2013

Interview Starts at 16:01 Mark: We hear that grandfather clock chime from time to time when you are in Denver. Can you tell me a little bit more about that clock? Len: It's actually my great-grandfather's clock. It's my father's mother's father, Col.

TKC 240 Kristin Nelson
March 09, 2013

President of Nelson Literary Agency, LLC Literary agent for Hugh Howey, author of Wool Interview Starts at 11:35 The reader is having a lot of power, which technically they always have had, because anybody that they love and follow and make big--be i

TKC 239 Cory Doctorow
March 02, 2013

Author of Homeland Interview Starts at 18:13 You could imagine a million conceptual ways that you could design that feature (eBook updates) so that it doesn't put people at risk. Such as, having the device poll a server to find out if there are any upd

TKC 238 Jeremy Greenfield
February 22, 2013

Editorial Director, Digital Book World Interview Starts at 18:15 QED stands for Quality, Excellence, Design and essentially it's the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval for eBooks and digital book production … Not all eBooks are created the same. Obvi