Mar 30, 2019
Founder and CEO of IMDb
Interview starts at 14:54 and ends at 52:50
“In 1990, if you’d have said to me ‘You know the service that you’ve just launched, one day you’ll be able to interact with that by voice with a device that’s this big in your kitchen.’ I’d be like, ‘Really?’ Now it’s kind of like an everyday experience.”
News
Fire HD 10 tablet on sale for $100 - a price cut of $50
Kindle Voyage - $130 on Amazon’s Woot site ($90 off)
“Open road Integrated Media Shows 36% YoY Revenue Growth in January 2019” - press release March 26, 2019
Association of American Publishers stats for January 2019
Tech Tips
reMarkable tablet ($599) versus Rocketbook ($30) versus MobiScribe ($214)
Kindle for Mac update (1.25.2)
Kindle sort by unread and read coming (Good E-Reader)
Interview with Col Needham
“Behind the Scenes at IMDb” by Elias Wolfberg at Amazon’s Day One blog - February 28, 2018
Next Week’s Guest
Michael J. Sullivan, author of the Riyria fantasy series.
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