This is a video excerpt from my May 14, 2013, Skype interview with Vivienne Roumani, director of the documentary “Out of Print,” narrated by Meryl Streep. The full audio interview is in Episode 250 of The Kindle Chronicles podcast, uploaded on May 17, 2013. For screenings and other information about the film, please be sure [...]
Director of “Out of Print” Interview Starts at 16:37 He [Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos] wanted to give me a half an hour–he gave me 45 minutes. And it was really an amazing interview. He was very bright, very warm, very gracious, and you got the sense that he really wanted to do good. That’s the sense you [...]
I’m at my parents’ home, without my Kindle Fires, so I can’t check this out personally yet. But Jeff Bezos at Amazon.com’s landing page is announcing that everyone with a Kindle Fire will find 500 Amazon Coins, worth $5, in their account. “You can use the coins to buy apps and games, as well as [...]
If you heard my interview with Douglas Rushkoff, author of Present Shock, in TKC 244 last month, you know he planned to spend two full days getting ready for his encounter with Stephen Colbert. Well, it looks as if his preparation paid off, because the interview on May 7 went very well indeed. It was a lightning [...]
Founder of Alltop, author of APE: Author Publisher Entrepreneur – How to Publish a Book Interview Starts at 13:55 People say, “Well, Guy, if you’re successful and more people become self-publishers there’s going to be more crap out there.” That’s true…. You could make the case that the cave-in started when Gutenberg had a printing press. Up till [...]
This is a video excerpt from my May 1, 2013, Skype interview with Sam Tanenhaus, newly named as a writer-at-large at The New York Times after nine years as editor of The New York Times Book Review and host of the long-running Book Review podcast. The full audio interview is in Episode 248 of The [...]
I just spotted this Mothers Day special at Amazon.com, good in the U.S. through Mothers Day on May 12, 2013: $20 off any of the Kindle Fire HD 7″ models, as follows, showing the new, discounted prices: 7″ 16GB with special offers – $179 7″ 16GB without special offers – $204 7″ 32GB with special [...]
New York Times writer at large, former editor of The Times’ Sunday Book Review, and longtime host of The Book Review podcast Interview Starts at 16:29 When I say, “Well, Mr. Amis, it seems to me this is what your novel does,” and he says, “Well no. That’s exactly what it doesn’t do”–part of me cringes, but I know [...]
I love this: O’Reilly Media today (May 3, 2013) is celebrating what they call “Day Against DRM” by offering ALL their eBooks and videos at 50 percent off or 60 percent off orders over $100. Click here to browse their titles. Use discount code DRM2013. O’Reilly has long championed DRM-free books, and it’s a movement which is [...]
Here’s a sweet deal from the University of Chicago Press: You Were Never in Chicago, a writerly portrait of the Windy City by Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg, is free for the first five days in May. Roger Ebert called the book, published in October of last year, “a poetic mosaic of his [Steinberg's] life and the life of [...]
