Jun 16, 2017
Executive Editor and Co-founder of Book Riot
Interview starts at 10:10 and ends at 43:25
“If publishers woke up tomorrow and sanely priced e-books, I think it would be different in degree not in kind. I don’t think we’d see 10x growth in e-books’ market share. Maybe there would be 5, 10 percent [growth in] market share. I don’t know.”
News
“Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7 billion” by Nick Turner at Bloomberg - June 16, 2071
Press Release announcing Whole Foods acquisition - June 16, 2017
“Cramer: Amazon could dominate food retail within two years” video at CNBC - June 16, 2017
“Amazon will be the first company worth $1 trillion” by Eric Johnson at Recode - June 12, 2017
Jeff Bezos tweet re: philanthropy
The Case for a National Library Endowment via David Rothman
Tech Tips
“How to install Google Play on Kindle Fire (without root) by Olga & Rachel at Love My Fire
Interview with Jeff O’Neal
Book Riot podcasts: Book Riot, All the Books, Get Booked, SFF Yeah! (science fiction/fantasy), and Read or Dead (mystery/thriller)
Clinton Kabler, chief operating officer and co-founder of Riot New Media Group
Rebecca Joines Schinsky, executive director of product and ecommerce at Riot New Media Group
Amanda Nelson, managing editor of Book Riot
The New York Times Book Review
Next Week’s Guest
David Wright, readers advisory librarian at the Seattle Library
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.
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