TKC 483 David Ignatius
11/04/17 • 44 min
Author of The Quantum Spy
Interview starts at 12:12 and ends at 34:00
“Jeff Bezos has been a great owner for The Post. He invested in our business. He has generally stayed away and let the editors and our publisher, Fred Ryan, run the business. He intervenes only occasionally. The first meeting he had when he came to The Post, he said, ‘I don’t know what’s going to work, but I want to lengthen the runway, so you have more time to experiment and take off.’ And we have begun to take off. We’re not rolling in money, but The Post is profitable again. I wondered if I’d ever see that. Our web traffic keeps exploding.”
News
All-New Kindle Oasis ships on Halloween
“All-New Kindle Oasis survives ocean dunking” by David Rothman at TeleRead - October 31, 2017
“Is the Kindle Oasis Really Worth It?” - my video review of the original Oasis in 2016
Interview with David Ignatius
The Quantum Spy by David Ignatius
Other novels by David Ignatius at Amazon.com
Body of Lies, the 2008 movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, based on the novel by David Ignatius
“Our Villains, Ourselves: A Thriller Roundup” by Marisha Pessel at The New York Times - October 25, 2017
Content
PBS NewsHour profile of author Jesmyn Ward - October 27, 2017
Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward
Comments
Calibre
My video review of the new Kindle Oasis - October 31, 2017
Outro
Bufo Calvin’s “Because of the Kindle” project
Next Week’s Guest
Carlina Duan, author of I Wore My Blackest Hair, a debut poetry collection that will be published on November 14th by Little a, the literary imprint of Amazon Publishing.
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.
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Author of The Quantum Spy
Interview starts at 12:12 and ends at 34:00
“Jeff Bezos has been a great owner for The Post. He invested in our business. He has generally stayed away and let the editors and our publisher, Fred Ryan, run the business. He intervenes only occasionally. The first meeting he had when he came to The Post, he said, ‘I don’t know what’s going to work, but I want to lengthen the runway, so you have more time to experiment and take off.’ And we have begun to take off. We’re not rolling in money, but The Post is profitable again. I wondered if I’d ever see that. Our web traffic keeps exploding.”
News
All-New Kindle Oasis ships on Halloween
“All-New Kindle Oasis survives ocean dunking” by David Rothman at TeleRead - October 31, 2017
“Is the Kindle Oasis Really Worth It?” - my video review of the original Oasis in 2016
Interview with David Ignatius
The Quantum Spy by David Ignatius
Other novels by David Ignatius at Amazon.com
Body of Lies, the 2008 movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, based on the novel by David Ignatius
“Our Villains, Ourselves: A Thriller Roundup” by Marisha Pessel at The New York Times - October 25, 2017
Content
PBS NewsHour profile of author Jesmyn Ward - October 27, 2017
Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward
Comments
Calibre
My video review of the new Kindle Oasis - October 31, 2017
Outro
Bufo Calvin’s “Because of the Kindle” project
Next Week’s Guest
Carlina Duan, author of I Wore My Blackest Hair, a debut poetry collection that will be published on November 14th by Little a, the literary imprint of Amazon Publishing.
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!
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TKC 482 All-New Kindle App for iOS and Android
Kindle Creative Director Seth Micarelli, left, and Mike Torres, Kindle director of product management and design
Amazon announces all-new Kindle app (press release) - October 24, 2017
All-New Kindle Oasis
Kindle Select, Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP)
Kindle Unlimited and Prime Reading
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Next Week’s Guest
David Ignatius, Washington Post columnist and author of The Quantum Spy: A Thriller, available for pre-order with delivery November 7, 2017.
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!
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TKC 484 Carlina Duan
Author of I Wore My Blackest Hair
Interview starts at 12:34 and ends at 39:39
“I’m not sure about the future of Amazon [Publishing] in the literary world at large. I do think that for my book it’s been really interesting working with them and being able to answer those questions [about audience] and also to challenge myself more about how do I see this book existing in the world and what kind of spaces do I want it to enter and what kind of people do I want it to encounter. I think that working with Amazon has been interesting in that way, because they do have a very broad reach, and a very established way of doing things that for me has given a lot of structure to thinking about the book being out in the world.”
News
Brad Stone interviewed on Wall Street Journal Moneybeat Book Club podcast - November 4, 2017
“Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos: “Told You I’m a Tech Buff” at TMZ - July 14, 2017
“Kindle with your kale? Amazon to sell electronic devices in Whole Foods stores” by Matt Day at The Seattle Times - November 9, 2017
Amazon Prime Now
Tech Tip
“Kindle e-readers to get Audible” - Michael Kozlowski Good E Reader video - November 2, 2017
Creating Alexa Voice Profiles - Amazon video
“Alexa Adds the ability to recognize different speakers’ voices” by Kevin Murnane at Forbes - October 12, 2017
Interview with Carlina Duan
I Wore My Blackest Hair by Carlina Duan - available for pre-order from Little a with delivery November 14, 2017
The Black Maria and Teeth by Aracelis Girmay
Goodreads book giveaway for I Wore My Blackest Hair (ends November 13, 2017)
“Writing as Fuel” by Carlina Duan at The Michigan Daily - July 23, 2014
Day One, Amazon Publishing’s weekly digital literary journal
Vanderbilt University MFA program
Morgan Parker interview on TKC 391 - January 28, 2016
Content
A Polish eBook subscription service
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Best Books of 2017 as selected by Amazon’s book editors
“The Internet Archive ‘Liberates’ Books Published Between 1923 and 1941, and Will Put 10,000 Digitized Books Online” at Open Culture - November 9, 2017
Next Week’s Guest
Steve Kessel, Amazon Senior VP and head of the team that created the...
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