Changes In Ebook Publishing Over The Last Decade And Possible Changes Ahead With Len Edgerly Of The Kindle Chronicles Podcast
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Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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The last decade has seen a dramatic change in the publishing industry as ebooks and digital audio have gone from a side note to a huge part of the reader experience — and a significant part of independent author incomes. In this episode, I talk to Len Edgerly from The Kindle Chronicles Podcast which started […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur, |
| 0:08.9 | bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing, publishing options and marketing ideas for your book. |
| 0:17.0 | You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint and lots more information at |
| 0:23.0 | TheCreativepen.com. And that's Pen with a double N. And here's the show. |
| 0:30.9 | Hello, creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 505 of the podcast, and it is Sunday the 30th of August 2020, as I record this. |
| 0:41.7 | So today I'm talking to Len Edgley from the Kindle Chronicles podcast, whose show has been running a little longer than mine or around the same time we started anyway. |
| 0:51.5 | And we talk about why he saw something important in the Kindle |
| 0:55.4 | back then as I did. I started when everything kicked off back then. But we also talk how |
| 1:01.7 | the publishing and tech industry has changed for readers, the subscription model which marches on |
| 1:07.3 | and the change in devices over time. Now, Len has actually interviewed Jeff Bezos |
| 1:12.4 | several times. So we talk about some of those interviews. We talk about the recent US Congress |
| 1:18.1 | hearing around big tech, which is only really just starting off in terms of a discussion and has |
| 1:23.4 | the potential for big ramifications for authors and publishers who want to sell online. We also |
| 1:28.5 | talk about podcasting and generally geek out as two quite tech-minded people and we've been right |
| 1:35.5 | about some things, we've been wrong about some things and we just have a good old chat so you |
| 1:39.1 | get to listen in and that is coming up in the interview. |
| 1:47.6 | In publishing news and interesting things, |
| 1:53.1 | Microsoft Word has a new transcription tool built in to the system for the online version Microsoft 365. |
| 1:57.0 | It works with recorded audio and live speaking and can detect different speakers. There is, obviously, |
| 2:02.8 | there's already a dictation option. There's a microphone option in the tool ribbon and you can |
| 2:08.0 | click dictate or transcribe. Now, I think this is brilliant. I mean, I don't use Microsoft, |
| 2:13.5 | but I'm still using Dragon. I've actually recently got Dragon anywhere on my phone because I want to dictate more when I'm out walking and not have it on a device that doesn't sink to the cloud. So I have been using a handheld little Sony device for years. But essentially when I'm out walking and then I save it onto the device. If something happened to that device, |
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