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TKC 462 John Mitchinson
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45 minutes
Released:
Jun 8, 2017
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Podcast episode
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Co-founder and chief publishing officer of Unbound Interview starts at 8:56 and ends at 42:25 “It’s not so much the elephant in the room. We are the room inside the elephant, if you look at the size that Amazon is growing as an online retailer. That kind of troubles me, because I feel a little bit like when publishing does get round to direct-to-consumer it will already be too late. ” News “Amazon Will Be the Fifth Largest Bookstore Chain” by Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly - June 1, 2017 Amazon Fresh “Amazon is going after Walmart with a 45 percent discount on Prime for lower-income shoppers” by Jason Del Rey at Recode - June 6, 2017 Tech Tips “Amazon Unveils New Kindle Highlight and Note System” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - June 6, 2017 Interview with John Mitchinson John Mitchinson on TKC 213 in 2012 Unbound Unbound co-founders Justin Pollard and Dan Kiernan QI (Quite Interesting), the BBC quiz show Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts Kickstarter and Indiegogo Unbound books by Jonathan Meades and Jonathan Coe Morgan Entrekin, president and publisher of Grove/Atlantic Books, cofounder of the Literary Hub website (Click here for Morgan’s appearance on The Kindle Chronicles in May of 2016 at BookExpo America.) Unbound’s Backlisted podcast hosted by John Mitchinson and Andy Miller (author of The Year of Reading Dangerously) at SoundCloud and iTunes Unbound Digital books at Amazon.com A Murder of Crows by Ian Skewis The Elegant Art of Falling Apart by Jessica Jones - $10.99 on Kindle, or $7.00 at Unbound (.mobi file download) A Box of Birds by Charles Fernyhough - $7.00 at Unbound Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience compiled by Shaun Usher - $15.39 on Kindle or $22.97 in hardcover at Amazon.com; $15 eBook or $35 special hardback edition at Unbound The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla (Unbound) Tatterdemalion by Sylvia Linsteadt, illustrated by Rima Staines (Unbound) I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon Content “5 Good Summer Reads” by Bill Gates at Gates Notes - May 22, 2017 Book Riot podcast with mention of Gates’s 5 Summer reads Next Week’s Guest Jeff O’Neal, executive editor and co-founder of Book Riot 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!
Released:
Jun 8, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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