The Kindle Chronicles

The Kindle Chronicles


Latest Episodes

TKC 90 James McQuivey
April 09, 2010

News – All about the iPad – my moment of geek royalty, Kindle in the sun video, and testing iPad in the wild video – and Robert Scoble is wrong again, this time on This Week in Tech, about the Kindle (here’s the first time, in 2007

TKC 89 Bryan Person
April 03, 2010

News – Stephen Colbert on the iPad’s free ride on the cover of Newsweek, whose back cover contains a Kindle ad; Natali del Conte’s campy presentation of an iPad on CBS Early Morning; Andy Ihnatko takes his iPad to the beach; Amazon scram

TKC 88 David Risher
March 27, 2010

From left with students in Ghana, Colin McElwee, Mike Sundermeyer, and David Risher News – Amazon announces Kindle for Tablet Computers including the iPad. CNET’s Tom Merritt has some video fun with reasons For and Against buying an iPad.  Ci

TKC 87 Joshua Tallent
March 19, 2010

News – Item 1: Amazon announces the release of Kindle for Mac software. Item 2: The New York Times reports on the latest round in Amazon v. Apple and the Publishers.  Item 3: Two reading features of the iPad I hadn’t heard about yet, and an e

TKC 86 Elif Batuman
March 12, 2010

News - A Lab 126 job posting for a browser engineer prompts David Coursey of PC World and Peter Kafka of All Things Digital, among others, to speculate on exactly what sort of “innovative web browser” may be in the works for the next version o

TKC 85 Andrys Basten
March 05, 2010

News – Will the next Kindle cost less than $150? Reports from Bloomberg and Silicon Alley Insider raise that happy prospect.  Also, via Kindle World, a new comparison by WalletPop of eBook prices shows that Kindle is still the best priced, but Sony

TKC 84 Scott Stossel
February 26, 2010

Scott Stossel News – An interview with Army Sgt. Andre Corbin, who is headed for active duty in Afghanistan next month.  His gear will include a new Kindle and accessories in a sponsorship by M-Edge Accessories.  Andre describes how well-suited eR

TKC 84a Your Comments
February 26, 2010

I’m running your comments in a separate episode this week, because the main podcast contains two interviews and runs a little long. Here’s what you’ll hear in this file: Craig Scarberry recommends You are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier. Ji

TKC 83 Stephen Windwalker
February 19, 2010

Photo by Betty Scharf News – Amazon releases the Kindle for BlackBerry app.  Lance Ulanoff worries about the screen size.  Motoko Rich of The New York Times gets a scoop: Perhaps rumors of Apple’s opposition to discounted prices for bestsell

TKC 82 Steve Garfield – Video for iTunes/RSS feed
February 13, 2010

I’m hoping this will bring the Steve Garfield video to my iTunes and RSS feeds…  Sorry for the clutter this is creating on the show notes page, and for the slightly off sync of audio and video.