President and Cofounder of Enthrill Interview Starts at 19:27 Our system really will reward stores for doing what they do best, and that’s getting customers interested in books. We’re the only true answer for discovery for eBooks that doesn’t deal with metadata. Our discovery tools are all physical, and right back to the reason that you [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Member of Amazon’s original Kindle development team author of Burning the Page: The eBook revolution and the future of reading Interview Starts at 19:16 I love Amazon in the sense that it really understands building things in what I’ll call an agile way. You start small, and you build and build and build and build. The Kindle [...]
Founder and CEO of Goodreads.com Interview Starts at 9:43 Goodreads is a place today for readers of all platforms, no matter how they read the book–whether it be a Kindle or Nook or a physical book, etc., to share what they thought of the book and find new books. And that’s not going to change. I think [...]
I have been reading The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise? by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith for more than five months. This is not because I am a slow reader, although I am a slow reader. I got the idea for an experiment in immersive reading from my interview with Brogan on [...]
This is most of the interview I recorded for TKC 244 with Douglas Rushkoff on April 1, 2013 by Skype. I had to trim it slightly to meet YouTube’s limit of 15 minutes.
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