TKC 444 Thad McIlroy

President of The Future of Publishing Interview starts at 8:19 and ends at 44:04 "I'm convinced that if you want to retain your job in publishing moving forward, unless you're demonstrably technology adept, you're going to lose your job. Yeah, there's room for 100 amazing editors who can't even use a computer, but that's not the run-of-the-mill worker in publishing today. They need to be imbued with a knowledge of technology." News Amazon's earnings (Forbes) - February 2, 2017 Amazon press release on earnings Walmart going after Amazon Prime (Recode) - January 31, 2017 David Frum in The Atlantic's March issue   Jeff Bezos statement on immigration executive order Give Trump a Chance debate Interview with Thad McIlroy The Future of Publishing website "An Authoritative Look at Book Publishing Startups" by Thad McIlroy Shelfie "Shelfie Closes" by Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly - January 31, 2017 John LeCarré: The Biography by Adam Sisman BookBub PerfectIt The Bestseller Code by Jodi Archer and Matthew L. Jockers "Leisure time on an average day" - chart from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Data Guy's presentation at 2017 Digital Book World Next Week's Guest Betty Anholt, historian at the Sanibel Public Library For Updates on our Florida Sojourn: Click here for my essays on Medium  Click here for my Instagram photos 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. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!