The Kindle Chronicles

The Kindle Chronicles


Latest Episodes

TKC 99 John Just
June 11, 2010

CORRECTION – In the audio’s introduction I misstated Zoe Winters’s name but got it right in the intro to the Content section. News – Item 1: Seth Godin‘s free advice for Amazon with reaction from Abhi and a followup intervie

TKC 98 James McQuivey
June 04, 2010

Correction: In the podcast, I have the date of the Kindle launch at Target wrong. It’s Sunday June 6, not June 5. News – Item 1: It looks as if Bloomberg got the scoop on plans for the next Kindle, reported to becoming in August. Engadget ad

TKC 97 J. A. Konrath
May 28, 2010

News – Item 1: Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos made some illuminating comments about the Kindle at the company’s annual meeting on May 27, 2010.  Click here for audio of the entire meeting. Item 2: Penguin and Amazon reach a deal, which means Pengu

TKC 97 J. A. Konrath
May 28, 2010

TKC 96 Mike Elgan
May 21, 2010

News – The Kindle for PC application gets an update. And coming this summer: Kindle for Android. Click here for Engadget’s story. Tech Tip – Amazon’s Kindle Support section has lots of good ideas, especially for new Kindle users. 

TKC 95 Jay Marine
May 14, 2010

News – Something seems fishy to me in the Apple rankings for top free iPad applications, which has Apple’s iBooks at Number one, and Kindle for iPad at 10 or 11, despite nearly four times as many ratings left for the Kindle app.  Also, Univer

TKC 94 Ken Clark
May 07, 2010

Darlene's photo of the co-founders of E-Books for Troops News – My Kindle was updated wirelessly the evening of May 5th with the 2.5 software, so I’m bringing you my hands-on impressions of the six major enhancements it contains. Tech Tip

TKC 93 Stephen Windwalker
April 30, 2010

News – Item 1: Score another one for the Kindle: a Los Angeles Times investigative piece quotes warnings from sleep experts that holding a bright LCD screen close to your face for bedtime reading is not recommended if you suffer from insomnia.  The

TKC 92 Carolyn Kellogg
April 23, 2010

News - Item 1: David Letterman weighs in on the iPad as Kindle Killer (click here for video – Kindle bit starts at 2:48). Item 2: Ken Auletta of The New Yorker asks “Publish or Perish: Can the iPad topple the Kindle and Save Publishing?”

TKC 91 Cali Lewis
April 17, 2010

News - Item 1: Amazon’s Scott Ambrose Reilly moves from running the company’s digital music division to managing business development for Kindle periodicals.  Stephen Windwalker in his new iPad Nation Daily blog urges Reilly to open up the Ki