The Kindle Chronicles

Retired Elementary School Teacher in Upton, Wyoming Interview starts at 5:31 and ends at 33:07 Links “Millions of Amazon Echo and Kindle Devices Affected by WiFi Bug” by Lawrence Abrams at Bleeping Computer - October 17, 2019 Christi Ross Crain interviewed as Teacher of the Year in 2012 (YouTube) Upton, Wyoming Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence by Bill O’Reilly Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel and Reamde: A Novel by Neal Stephenson Neal Stephenson’s author page at Amazon.comMusic for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.  Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research Interview starts at 13:04 and ends at 51:49 “We don’t want to be constantly wired. We don’t want brain implants. We just want the ability to get information and communication when we need it and the way we need it. Amazon is essentially saying, ‘in your car, on your ear, in your pocket? Sure. In your environment, your home. We’re just going to thread all this together, so that you can use it when you need it, and it just disappears in the background when you don’t.’” Links “Is Amazon Unstoppable?” by Charles Duhigg at The New Yorker - October 10, 2019 “Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan” by Franklin Foer at The Atlantic - November, 2019 Amazon Fire HD 10 (2019) vs. Fire HD 10 (2017) by Simon Hill at Digital Trends - October 7, 2019 All-new Kindle Kids Edition ($110) at Amazon.com - Available October 30, 2019 Kindle with Audible Narration books List of 10,000+ Whispersync for Voice-enabled books for children ages 9-12 IndieWire review of “Jexi” - October 11, 2019 Oura heartrate monitor ring LOOMO personal robot - $1,799 at Amazon.com Neal Stephenson’s author page at Amazon.com Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel and Reamde: A Novel by Neal Stephenson The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe Apollo by Catherine Bly Cox and Charles Murray Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.  Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know Interview starts at 15:54 and ends at 49:25 Links LEGOLAND in Boston “Why You should Remove All Color on Your iPhone” (YouTube) by All I Talk Is Tech - October 27, 2018 Echo Glow - $30 “Why you may have to wait longer to check out an e-book from your local library” by Jenny McGrath at Digital Trends - September 13, 2019 Macmillan CEO John Sargent’s letter announcing change in eBook sales to public libraries - July 25, 2019 “Why Angry Librarians Are Going to War with Publishers over E-Books” by Heather Schwedel at Slate - September 11, 2019 The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know by Mike Shatzkin and Robert Paris Riger The Shatzkin Files Mike Shatzkin’s essays about climate change and other topics at Medium “Cheap Words: Amazon is good for customers. But is it good for books?” by George Packer at The New Yorker - February 4, 2014 Books recommended by Mike Shatzkin: Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee Serious Eater: A Food Lover’s Perilous Quest for Pizza and Redemption by Ed Levine The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts by Jill Abramson Echo Flex - $25 Next Week’s Show James McQuivey, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.  Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.