Nov 19, 2016
Deputy Editor, Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard
Interview starts at 16:02 and ends at 40:51
"I think it’s become very clear that there’s going to be a devoted subset of people who do read on eReaders, and there’s going to be a lot more reading on phones."
News
“Amazon App for iPhone Now Has X-Ray Vision to See Inside Your Packages” by Andy Orin at Lifehacker - November 16, 2016
“Alexa, What Are Your Deals?” - Amazon press release on November 18, 2016
The Grand Tour one-day deal on Amazon Prime - November 18, 2018.
“Amazon Starts Selling Certified Refurbished Kindle e-Readers” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E-Reader - November 15, 2016
Certified Refurbished items at Amazon.com
“Amazon looks to clean house—literally” by Angel Gonzalez at The Seattle Times - November 7, 2016
“Jeff Bezos Invests Billions to Make Amazon a Top E-Commerce Player in India” by Newley Purnell at The Wall Street Journal - November 18, 2016
“Amazon is going to sell cars online” by Eugene Kim at Business Insider - November 18, 2016
New Amazon Prime TV commercial featuring a priest and an imam
“Amazon TV ad features imam and vicar exchanging gifts” by Mark Sweney at The Guardian - November 15, 2016
“Jeff Bezos tweets his love for touching Amazon ad showing friendship between priest and imam” by Kurt Schlosser at GeekWire - November 17, 2016
Tech Tip
Two mistakes to avoid with Amazon Prime Fresh
Interview with Laura Hazard Owen
Nieman Foundation at Harvard
The Nieman Fellowships
Amazon Prime Reading
Six months free of digital access to The Washington Post for Amazon Prime members
New York Times podcasts
New York Times The Daily 360 virtual reality news clips
VR experience of solitary confinement by The Guardian
I’ll Be Right Back Laura Hazard Owen’s parenting newsletter
“Why We Are Buying PaidContent” by Om Malik - February 8, 2012
Om Malik on Leo Laporte’s This Week in Tech - November 8, 2015
Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids by Nicholson Baker
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
Content
Amazon editors pick The Best Books of 2016
“Amazon rolls out Rapids, a chat style reading app for kids” by Sarah Buhr at Techcrunch - November 2, 1016
Next Week’s Guest
Seira Wilson, senior books editor at Amazon.com
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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