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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard Librarian, and key visionary for Digital Public Library of America Interview Starts at 16:16 Now the strategy is not to have a five-year plan with an enormous budget of that sort but rather one that would involve beginning from a core of already digitized collections that we will make available on [...]
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 [...]
Author of Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now Interview Starts at 17:33 Remember we were going to write in our underwear from our homes and do what we wanted and and slack? And then it slowly but surely turned into this kind of poster child for the NASDAQ stock exchange, this way of monitoring people’s employees, making [...]
Business Manager at New York University Press Interview Starts at 23:21 In terms of what we’re projecting for the end of ’13, we think we’re going to come in at about 14 percent all-electronic, and the vast majority of that is currently Kindle. Fifty percent of eBook sales are going through Kindle…Nook is actually way down [...]
This episode is sponsored by GoToMeeting Author of Asperger Love: Searching for Romance When You’re Not Wired to Connect Interview Starts at 22:42 I was so impressed by Jack and Kirsten’s perseverance in trying to explain themselves to each other. Here they have this condition that makes it hard to put yourself in somebody else’s shoes. It makes [...]
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