The Kindle Chronicles

TKC 369 Sara Nelson

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Editorial Director of Books and Kindle at Amazon.com
 
Interview starts at 14:54 and ends at 39:15
 
On The Story of the Lost Child: I think this is going to break Elena Ferrante out as a bona fide super star in this country. And nobody knows who she is, which I love!
 
News
“Amazon e-book deal with NYC public schools postponed as blind advocates say it would leave out visually impaired students” by Lisa L. Colangelo and Ben Chapman at The Daily News - August 25, 2015
“Amazon Curtails Development of Consumer Devices” by Greg Bensinger at The Wall Street Journal - August 26, 2015
Amazon Devices Team, US jobs page with video
“Amazon Shoppers Not Swayed by Workplace Horror Stories” by Ashley Rodriguez at Advertising Age - August 26, 2015
 
Tech Tip
The Daily Review at kindle.amazon.com
 
Interview with Sara Nelson
Amazon’s Big Fall Books Preview
Press release on Fall Books Preview - August 19, 2015
Fall Reading Preview at the Amazon Book Review
The Story of the Lost Child: Neapolitan Novels, Book Four by Elena ferrante
Cancer Vixen: A True Story by Marisa Acocella Marchetto (graphic novel)
Fall Books Preview: Children’s Books
The Thing About Jelly Fish by Ali Benjamin
 
Content
“21 Great Novels It’s Worth Finding Time to Read” by Jacquelyn Mitchard at AARP - September 2014
“Read the World’s Best Books for Free with the Harvard Classics” by Rob Nightingale at MakeUseOf - August 26, 2015 
Harvard Classics Wikipedia entry, listing the contents of all 51 volumes
 
Next Week’s Guest
Mike Reeves-McMillan, author of The Well-Presented Manuscript: Just What You Need to Know to Make Your Fiction Look Professional
 

 
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 Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. 
 
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