Interview starts at 8:05 and ends at 34:24

 

I think it’s possible that we’re going to wake up and say we just had another black-swan event, which is that all of the big authors that have been developed over the last five years, a big share of them are Amazon authors, because they had the runway to do that, and publishers didn’t.

 

“Bezos Tops Buffet as World’s Third-Richest on Amazon Rise” by Tom Metcalf at Bloomberg - July 21, 2016

Mark Mahaney on Amazon earnings (video) at Bloomberg - July 20, 2016

Amazon earnings webcast details for July 28, 2016 at 5:30 pm ET

Jeff Bezos in next Star Trek movie

Using Time to Read on Your Kindle at The Story

 

The Shatzkin Files blog

“These Charts Show Pokémon Go’s Ridiculous Growth” by Anne VanderMey at Fortune - July 21, 2016

Pokémon Go home page

Leonard Shatzkin obituary - American Booksellers Association May 20, 2002

 

Kindle Singles Classics press release - July 19, 2016

“Amazon is bringing some of the best non-fiction classics to Kindle” by Nick Statt at The Verge - July 19, 2016

Julian Fellows's recommendations for Downton Abbey lovers

Overdrive apps for Android and iOS

Tom Semple’s LG Tone Infinim HBS-900 Wireless Stereo Headset - $71.86 at Amazon.com