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TKC 82 Steve Garfield (Video)

This is part of the video recording for my interview with Steve Garfield.  I am going to need to finish reading his book, Get Seen: Online Secrets to Building Your Business, in order to figure out how to improve the synchronization between the audio and video here.

Posted 12 February 2010 † Len Edgerly § ‡ Comments (0) °

TKC 75 Kris Kindle & Bufo Calvin

This is a special, abbreviated edition of the podcast featuring an interview with Kris Kindle, courtesy of Bufo Calvin, who, for his part, offers a list of terrific tips for anyone who will be learning how to use the Kindle this week because one arrived as a gift.

Here is my own suggestion: consider buying a Kindle subscription to Bufo’s ILMK blog, which offers a steady supply of highly original and useful information about the Kindle. He has also authored two books available in Kindle editions, Free Books for Your Kindle and Frequently Asked Kindle Questions.

In our phone conversation on Wednesday, December 23rd, Bufo also mentions his latest creation, 221B Blog Street: The Adventures of Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson…one chapter a day! If you subscribe to that one, you will receive a new chapter of a Sherlock Holmes short story or chapter of a novel each day directly to your Kindle, a recreation of the serial publishing era.

Next week my wife, Darlene, and I will return to Denver for a while. Her press credentials for the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) have been approved, so she will be joining me for coverage of the show in Las Vegas next month.

Thanks for listening, and I hope your new year brings many good reads on your Kindle.

Posted 23 December 2009 † Len Edgerly § Kindle ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: , ,

TKC 58 Bufo Calvin

News – Sony announces its Daily Edition model, available sometime in December.  Why “Is it a Kindle Killer?” is the wrong question, according to Scott D. Anthony in a Harvard Business Publishing piece.  The DE will have a cool connection to public libraries via OverDrive. A new rumor has it that the Kindle is coming [...]

Posted 28 August 2009 † Len Edgerly § ‡ Comments (7) °

TKC 57 Michael Seringhaus

News – An analyst named Jim Friedland offers bullish Kindle sales estimates, and Steven Windwalker has more via TeleRead. Also, Rupert Murdoch gets his way. Click here for reaction on Amazon forum.

Tech Tip – From Bufo Calvin’s Frequently Asked Questions, a hidden Kindle DX game of Gomoku. Also, via Andrei Pushkin’s blog kindle and clarknova of the MobileRead forum, I install the hack for relief from the monotony of my Kindle 2’s default screensavers. You can find similar hacks via Andrei’s blog for customizing the screensavers on the Kindle 1 and DX.

Interview – Michael Searinghaus , a 3rd-year student at Yale Law School, opines in The Hartford Courant on what he feels are serious drawbacks for readers in the Kindle’s Terms of Use. His lengthy scholarly article on the topic is scheduled to appear around the end of the year in the Yale Journal of Law and Technology.

Content – Via Andrys Basten and Jeffrey Trachtenberg in the Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy – Amazon maintains $9.99 as the price for Dan Brown’s next blockbuster, The Lost Symbol – but will the same be true of Stephen King’s next big novel, due out in November?

Comments – A question from Omaha about the CyberPad and an audio excerpt from Stephen Windwalker’s latest Kindle guide, Free, with a tip on how best to listen to this podcast or any other on your Kindle. Also, a Kindle meetup in Portland, Maine, with Leslie Nicoll of KindleBoards.

Note: I could use your support for my “Taming the Kindle” panel proposal for South by Southwest Interactive 2010. Stephen Windwalker kindly posted this pitch and info on how to vote for my proposal using the PanelPicker. If you want to go directly to the PanelPicker to offer a thumbs up, click here. It also helps if you can take the time to leave a comment on my PanelPicker page. Thanks!

Posted 21 August 2009 † Len Edgerly § Kindle ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , ,

TKC 45 Paul Biba

News (1:31) – National Kindle Koffee meetup Saturday, June 6 at 10 a.m. local time – bring your Kindles! (I’ll be hanging out at the Starbucks in downtown Denver at 16th and Blake Streets.) Literary lion Charles McGrath sort of praises the Kindle in the New York Times. eInk reports a million screens in use. How to prolong life of Kindle’s lithium-based batteries.

Tech Tip (7:13) – How to use Amazon’s great new feature that enables you to see Kindle highlighting and notes here.

Interview (10:25) – Paul Biba, co-editor of TeleRead and a way-early adopter of eBooks, back when he was a globe-trotting corporate lawyer. He explains why he considers these early days of the eBook revolution so exciting, and why he and TeleRead owner David Rothman disagree on whether we should be afraid that Amazon will gain monopolistic power over the eBook industry.

Quote (30:12) – “Amazon’s Next Revolution” by Jeffrey M. O’Brien of Fortune.

Comments (31:48) – Verinder Syal, April, Cindy Brooks, yisroel parker, Billie Bogart, and Clark Dimond.

Posted 29 May 2009 † Len Edgerly § ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged: , , ,

TKC 44 Roxanne Darling & Shane Robinson

News (2:06) – Kindle Publishing for Blogs gets a thumbs-up from Abhi, and me, too. The Kindle iPhone app gets a spiffy update. Stephen Windwalker presents evidence that the Kindle may be coming to international markets soon.

Tech Tip (6:01) – Blair Slavin details a way to play with words in the Kindle 2 dictionary.

Interview – (7:36) Roxanne Darling and Shane Robinson make a dashing Kindle Couple and are among Hawai’i’s social media leaders. At Kailua Beach on May 20, 2009, they talked about sharing a Kindle 1, the Kindle iPhone app, and things you should not be afraid to bring to the beach. They are creators of the long-running and inspiring Beach Walks with Rox video podcast, and their tech-savvy Internet consulting business is Bare Foot Studios.

Quote (22:20) – Neville Hobson is experimenting with Twitter/audio book reviews.

Comments (24:53) – John W. Halkias, Halimah Felt, and Karen Hagglund.

Posted 22 May 2009 † Len Edgerly § ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

TKC 43 Stephen Peters

News (1:57) – Stephen Windwalker’s analysis of Kindle DX and Kindle 2 sales. Will pirates save the DX? Also, Amazon makes nifty improvements to the Kindle iPhone app.
Tech Tip (7:35) – Courtesy of Pat Hawn, a consideration of putting your Kindle to sleep at night versus turning it off.
Interview (11:02) – Stephen Peters, author of [...]

Posted 15 May 2009 † Len Edgerly § ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: , , ,

TKC 42 Andrei Pushkin

News (1:40) – The Kindle DX is announced at an Amazon press conference in New York City.  Joshua Topolsky, editor-in-chief of Engadget, was there and spoke with me by phone yesterday about his first impressions of the device. (Interview with Joshua begins at 6:23.) Joshua also appears weekly on the Engadget podcast. Also see Abhi’s [...]

Posted 08 May 2009 † Len Edgerly § ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: , , , ,

EXTRA – Boston PDA Users Group Presentation

This is a recording of my presentation about the Kindle on April 28, 2009 at the Boston PDA Users Group, which meets on the MIT campus at 77 Mass. Ave.  Thanks to Al Willis for the invitation!
UPDATE (5/2/09) – This is the raw, unedited recording of the User’s Group meeting, which I posted mainly for [...]

Posted 01 May 2009 † Len Edgerly § ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged: , ,

TKC 40 Pam McCarthy

News (1:55) – Stephen Windwalker wonders if the latest Kindle 2 firmware update, 2.0.3, might address the screen contrast issue. Ted Inoue weighs in, saying probably not. Blog Kindle suggests the new update may have something to do with Amazon’s planned pullback from Text to Speech in the face of Authors Guild opposition. Meanwhile, a [...]

Posted 24 April 2009 † Len Edgerly § ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged: ,