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Disclosure: We are part of the Amazon Affiliate/LTK Creator programs. We will receive a small commission at no cost if you purchase a book. This post may contain links to purchase books.Welcome to today's episode, where we dive into everything you need to know about Kindle Unlimited. Laura, a long-time Kindle Unlimited user since 2016, shares her experiences and insights on how this service can help you discover new authors and save money on books. We'll cover how Kindle Unlimited works, what types of books you can find, ways to save on your subscription, and tips for getting the most out of your membership.Topics Discussed: Introduction to Kindle UnlimitedExclusive Content only available on Kindle UnlimitedGenres and Book AvailabilityWays to Save Money on Kindle UnlimitedAdditional Tips such as Whispersync and Kindle AppHelpful Links:Special Offers and Discounts: Visit https://whattoreadnextblog.com/ku to check out current Kindle Unlimited offers.Annual Subscription Workaround: This only works for US Subscribers! https://whattoreadnextblog.com/how-buy-a-kindle-unlimited-annual-subscription/. Content Note: The annual and 2-year subscription Prices were raised after this episode was recorded. Please check out our site for the most up-to-date prices.Contact Laura: Have Kindle Unlimited questions or book recommendations? Email Laura at laura@whattoreadnextblog.com.Want to check out more book recommendations?Visit What to Read Next Blog for reader tips, popular books like recommendations, and many more posts. Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mood-maze/trendsetterLicense code: IP29FC0QKB6DV2UEBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/what-to-read-next-podcast-l-book-recommendation-show--5263998/support.

(87) Celebramos los subtítulos con itálicas y la lectura inmersiva que hemos incorporado. Allan Tépper saluda a Víctor Martorella y a Víctoria Mesas García, los dos locutores principales de la apertura. Luego saluda a cada oyente. Después de presentarse, Tépper aclara los auspiciadores de este episodio: El restaurante y bar Mylos en Gabletes Coralinos, Florida, con rica comida griega e internacional, MylosGabletesCoralinos.com Calladito.com… el servicio que puede agregar un número telefónico adicional a tu teléfono móvil o tableta, sin la necesidad de ninguna tarjeta SIM, ni física ni virtual, donde vivas en el mundo. TuTeclado.com, donde podrás encontrar diferentes tipos de teclados externos para tu computadora o tableta que te facilitarán redactar tanto en castellano como muchos otros idiomas. Para más información, visita TuTeclado.com Se oye el puente de CapicúaFM, con la voz de nuestra amiga, la destacada locutora, lingüista y cantante española María Esnoz Tépper aclara que desde el episodio 86, CapicúaFM ya cuenta con subtítulos opcionales en el sitio web CapicúaFM.com, lectura inmersiva e itálicas, también conocidas como cursivas. Tépper aclara que aunque los subtítulos se conocen hace décadas en las películas y en la televisión, ahora también pueden existir con ciertos programas que son netamente sonido, como es el caso de CapicúaFM y que eso está relacionado con la lectura inmersiva también. Tépper menciona que en el 2012, redactó por primera vez sobre la lectura inmersiva en la revista ProVideo Coalition. En aquel momento, estaba hablando de una subfunción de una aplicación Kindle en ciertos dispositivos (pero no en ningún dispositivo de tinta electrónica). La lectura inmersiva era (y sigue siendo) una subcaracterística de WhisperSync de Amazon. WhisperSync permite una oferta de libros electrónicos calificados junto con un audiolibro correspondiente, no sólo para ahorrar dinero y realizar un seguimiento de hasta dónde habíamos llegado con la lectura de un libro electrónico o la reproducción del audiolibro correspondiente y mantenerlos sincronizados, sino también (con la lectura inmersiva) poder leer y escuchar simultáneamente y resaltar específicamente las palabras habladas para mantener la concentración mental. Muchas fuentes indican que de esta manera, el lectoroyente comprende y recuerda el contenido mucho mejor. Ahora, nuestras podifusiones de audio pueden tener un beneficio similar. siempre que se haya creado y proporcionado una transcripción adecuada con código de tiempo. Tépper aclara que esta ventaja es independiente de las del posicionamiento orgánico y accesibilidad para los seguidores sordos que nos brindan las transcripciones. Dicho sea de paso, en el 2024, la Asociación Nacional de Sordos de los Estados Unidos prefiere el término sordo para designar la condición mencionada.) Logramos este objetivo con el episodio 86 de radio CapicúaFM, y el 87 que estás oyendo. Si escuchas el episodio 86 o éste el 87 directamente en el sitio web de CapicúaFM.com, podrás experimentar la lectura inmersiva inclusive con letra cursiva si oprimes el botón CC después de haber hecho clic en el botón de Reproducir. ¿Cuándo debemos usar las itálicas (o cursivas)? Según varias guías de gramática y estilo tanto en castellano como en inglés, debemos usar las itálicas (cursivas): Cuando se utiliza un término extranjero como Déjà vu Al mencionar el nombre de un álbum musical, largometraje, obra de teatro, periódico, programa de radio (incluidas las podifusiones), revista o sitio web citado sin el sufijo TLD. En CapicúaFM, solemos mencionar y analizar las obras de teatro (por ejemplo, Nadie te conoce como yo), programas de televisión (por ejemplo. Viaje a las estrellas: Picard, conocido en España como Star Trek: Picard) y películas (ej.Los amantes del círculo polar). Esos nombres de obras de teatro, películas y programas de televisión deben estar en cursivas en las notas de los episod...

In this week's episode, we take a look at six of the worst pieces of writing advice on the Internet, and explain why you shouldn't listen to them. This week's coupon is for the audiobook of GHOST IN THE THRONE as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy. You can get the audiobook of GHOST IN THE THRONE for 50% off at my Payhip store with this coupon code: SPRINGTHRONE The coupon code is valid through March 29th, 2024, so if you find yourself needing an audiobook to leap into spring, we've got one ready for you! TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 191 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is March 8th, 2024, and today we are talking about bad writing advice. In fact, we're talking about the worst writing advice, but more on that later. Before we get to any of our other topics, let's do Coupon of the Week. This week's coupon is for the audiobook of Ghost in the Throne, as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy. You can get the audiobook of Ghost in the Throne for 50% off at my Payhip store with this coupon code: SPRINGTHRONE and that's spelled SPRINGTHRONE. Of course the coupon code, as always, will be in the show notes for this episode. This coupon code is valid through March 29th, 2024. So if you find yourself needing an audiobook to leap into spring, we've got one ready for you. Before we get to any of other our other topics, let's first have an update on my current writing projects. I am 81,000 words into Ghost in the Veils, which puts me on Chapter 19 of either 21 or 22. I'm not entirely sure because I think I reused some numbers in my outline, which is obviously something we will fix before we get to the final draft. I am hoping to finish things up next week, if all goes well with the rough draft and then we will be on track to hopefully have the book out before Easter. I'm also 37,000 words into Wizard Thief, the second book in my Half-Elven Thief series and if all goes well, that will be out in April. I'm also 9,000 words into Cloak of Titans, and if all goes well, that should be out in May, I believe. And then after I write that, that's when I'll start working on Shield of Darkness, the Second Shield War book. As I mentioned in the previous episode, the audiobook of Shield of Storms is now available. It's definitely available on Audible, Amazon, and Apple. It's on my Payhip store. It's on Kobo. I believe it is on Nook Audio. Processing is going rather slowly for the other stores, which is unfortunate, but since most of these sales will probably come from Audible anyway, it's not that unfortunate, but hopefully it should be available on all the other stores before too much longer. 00:02:16 Question of the Week Now we're going to have a new topic that we're going to do every week as part of the show. It's called Question of the Week. I could hardly claim this is an original idea. I noticed that many blogs and many podcasts do a question of the week feature, but it seems like a good one to add to our show and website here. So this week's Question of the Week (the very first Question of the Week, as a matter of fact): If you listen to audiobooks, what apps do you use? Of course, there are no wrong answers. We had a variety of good answers to this question. Reader JL says: I use Audible. Paid for one year in advance. Use the credits unless the cost of the Audible book is less than the cost of the credit. I've noticed that sometimes this is the case if I bought the book or have it out in KU. That is true. Amazon has this feature called WhisperSync, where if you've bought the ebook you can sometimes get a discount on the audiobook if you buy it directly rather than using an Audible credit. Reader Joachim says: I use Smart Book Player on Android. I only use audiobooks in MP3 format. Reader Adam says: Audible, Graphicaudio.net, direct purchases from authors and/or Kickstarter rewards, Google Play Books, mostly DRM free downloads. Preference is direct from authors or a service which allows downloading titles for archival purposes. I should mention if you buy any of my audiobooks through Payhip, the fulfillment is through Book Funnel, which does allow you to download the MP3s to keep them for archival purposes if you're offline or you don't have access to your phone or computer. Doug says he uses Audible and he just finished Shield of Storms and is now listening to Sevenfold Sword Online: Creation. Tom says he uses the Audible annual 24 credit subscription. That's like 2 credits a month. I realize that's common for people who work in jobs like construction or industrial jobs where they can listen to audiobooks the entire day, and so therefore will go through quite a few of them. Venus says she listens to Libby or Nook, mostly Libby. If your library has access to Libby or a similar listening service, you can get audiobooks that way. And finally, Bonnie says: Truthfully, I've tried Audible, but I am not a fan of listening to books. Would rather do the reading myself. So as you can see, there are a range of options and opinions when it comes to listening to audiobooks. For myself, I use a combination of the monthly credit from Audible and discount audiobooks from the Chirp daily e-mail. If you do listen to a lot of audiobooks, it might be worthwhile to subscribe to Chirp, because then you could get some bargains on audiobooks in genres that may interest you. 00:04:55 Main Topic: The Worst Writing Advice from the Internet Now on to this week's main topic: the worst writing advice you can find on the Internet. The reason I wanted to do this episode was the same reason I started this podcast. I've been a writer for a long time. Ghost in the Veils is going to be my 150th book, and so I've gotten more experience than I'm not going to say everybody, but I do have more experience than many writers. I decided the podcast would be a good way to share some of that experience in a way that isn't pushing it on people or charging for expensive courses or anything like that. The advice is there if you want to listen to it, and if you don't want to listen to it, that's just fine too. However, the flip side of this coin is that there's a lot of really terrible writing advice out there, like just plain bad writing advice that's more destructive than helpful. To cover that, I asked for our transcriptionist to do some research for me and pull together some of the worst writing advice she could find on the Internet and then we would talk about it here. She found six particularly bad pieces of writing advice that we would debunk. The first piece of worst writing advice is that writing talent is innate. If you can't be a success right away, there is no point. This is just plainly false. Almost anyone can improve at any skill, and writing is no different with a sustained commitment over time. It just takes practice. A good way to debunk this is to look at the early works of famous writers like Jane Austen, to show that their writing improved over time. Or if you dig heavily into J.R.R. Tolkien's works, you'll see that the first initial drafts of what would become Lord of the Rings were not super great. By the time The Lord of the Rings actually came out, Tolkien had improved a good deal as a writer. Many authors have a rough first book or even rough first series and then go on to greater success or greater acclaim because they just practice and get better. With practically anything, practice will improve and writing is no different in that regard. After all, if you have a favorite author and you look at his or her first book and then compare it to his or her latest book, odds are you will notice a significant improvement in skill and that will be true for anyone. Number two: you need an MFA (that's a Master of Fine Arts degree) to be good enough to write a book. This is something I could rant about for a significant length of time because I think there are serious criticisms to be made of the way higher education is funded in the United States and serious criticisms to be made of the ways the student loan program works, but that's rather off scope for this podcast, so instead we're going to focus on why you don't need a Master of Fine Arts degree to be a writer. MFA programs tend to lean heavily towards poetry and literary fiction (literary fiction being, you know, fiction that isn't genre fiction, like, you know, mystery, science fiction or fantasy). The stereotype of literary fiction is it tends to be about creative writing professors having affairs with one another and while of course this is a cliche, there is a measure of truth to it. MFA programs tend to be a very homogeneous group of people who value a very specific type of writing/style. Genre fiction is often looked down on and “commercial” is used as an insult by many instructors in MFA programs, which is all well and dandy, but if you're writing literary fiction, commercial fiction has a better chance of being able to pay your taxes and your mortgage. An MFA credential does not guarantee results and employment prospects and is extremely expensive unless you get into a funded program. We mentioned the problem of student debt a little earlier and if you go into a MFA program, you're going to have a lot more student debt. There's also the opportunity cost of spending two years learning to write in an MFA program. Finally, to illustrate the point, think of your top ten favorite writers and look up how many of them have a Master of Fine Arts degree. The percentage will probably be fairly low. So overall, I would not recommend going into an MFA program if you want to be a writer. The third piece of terrible writing advice is to only write when you feel inspired. This is bad because writing if you, even if you enjoy it, is still a form of work, and if you only do work when you feel like doing work, it's never going to get done. It's good to remember that progress is always better than perfection, and this type of thinking feeds into procrastination. Steve Jobs very famously said when he took over Apple again at the start of the 21st century that real artist ship and the correlate to that would be real writers publish. A good example to look at is athletes in various phases of training and competition. They don't train when they feel inspired. They create a plan and stick to it in order to meet their goals. The structure that comes from plans makes it easier to define your goals and track your results, so it's a good idea to try a disciplined approach to writing, I think and try and write as much as you're able, whether it's 500 words a day or 1,000 words a day, rather than waiting for you to just get inspired. This is true for pretty much any field of work and also writing. The fourth piece of bad writing advice is to only write what you know. If this was actually good advice, then all books would be about writers trying to write and maybe household chores and tax preparation. This would be terrible advice for fantasy and science fiction writers, if taken at face value. Writing using your own knowledge and experiences can make your book more engaging, but think of it as a starting point or way to add texture to your story, not a rule. That said, if you want to write about something you don't know about, you don't actually have to become an expert in it. You just have to know enough to fake it. Remember, as we've talked about in a previous episode of the show, your book doesn't have to be realistic. It has to feel realistic. We want not realism, but verisimilitude, where it feels realistic. You can make it feel realistic with a lot less research than you can to become actually an expert in something. Only writing what you know is a very good way to limit your writing and get less writing done than you would otherwise. The fifth piece of bad writing advice we found was to write based on what's trending so the book will basically market itself. This is a bad idea, because by the time you finish and the book is ready to sell, the market may have already grown tired of the trend and moved on to dystopian mermaid stories or something else. Readers also have a sense when a story is rushed or written in a different way. It's much better to write something that you're excited to write. It's also important to realize that not all categories are equally lucrative or easy to market, though. A book on soil testing methodologies is unlikely to make anywhere near as much money as a romance, for example. The sixth and final piece of bad writing advice we're going to talk about this week is that there is no point in writing now that AI is taking over. Go do something else. A good example of why this is bad advice is the game of chess. Recently I got back into playing chess on a regular basis. I've known how to play the game since I was like 10, I think, which is an increasingly long amount of time ago, but I haven't played in a while. I got back into it after a gap of several years and I was baffled and somewhat surprised to see that there's actually like chess influencers now. I mean, everything else has influencers. I mean, they're like, you know, stationery influencers and video game influencers and packing material influencers. I was astonished to see that there are chess influencers and that they are in fact photogenic young people who post Instagram pictures of themselves playing chess. They have live streams of themselves playing chess, and they get into feuds with each other like every other group of influencers on the planet. Where this relates to writing/AI is that for decades now, it's been literally impossible for a human to defeat a properly configured computer at chess. It can't be done. If you have a chess program that's configured to make maximum use of its resources, it will beat even the best human player every single time and the end result of this is no one cares. The chess community continues on having all its influencers, rivals, and feuds and playing the game because as one of the chess influencers himself said, watching a human play a computer at chess is like watching a human try to arm wrestle a hydraulic press. You know who's going to win. It's boring. No one cares. Everyone goes back to the humans playing each other at chess and the chess engines are there for people who want to play, you know, bots on the Internet. And I suspect that is going to be the case with AI writing. You may get to the point where AI is able to spit out a novel, but it will be like a computer playing chess. It's like, yeah, that's nice, but no one actually cares. Even if AI became a major source of fiction, there would still be many readers out there, given the negative anti-AI feelings that are very prevalent on the Internet, who would prefer fiction written by humans as a preference, just like there are viewers who hate special effects heavy movies like Marvel movies and seek out movies using a lot of practical effects or physical stages. The final weakness with this advice that there is no point in writing now that AI taking over is that legislation regarding AI and copyright is still marked with uncertainty. If you can't copyright the product of an AI engine, there's no point in trying to sell it. So for all those reasons, I don't think that AI is an excuse not to write and that it will probably end up like being a chess engine. Any chess computer can defeat a human, but that really doesn't matter very much. So there we are, six pieces of bad writing advice that you can safely ignore. That's it for this week. Thanks for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful. A reminder that you can listen to all the back episodes on https://thepulpwritershow.com, often with transcripts. Speaking of which, a big thank you to my transcriptionist for helping me to research this episode. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave a review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy and see you all next week.

Willkommen zu den Trenchcoat Talkers. Heute gucken wir zum ersten mal Columbo! Murder by the book. Ihr wollt das in besser? Dann klickt euch Sprechkabine Plus! Unterstützt die süßen Jungs von der Sprechkabine! Achtung: Wir haben die Stille in der Folge gelassen, damit ihr mit uns synchron seid, falls ihr mit uns zusammen die DVD gucken wollt. Wenn ihr das eh nicht vorhabt, empfehlen wir einen Podcatcher, der automatisch Stille rausschneiden kann. Ein Transkript findet ihr diesmal nicht weil auphonic bzw Whispersync diesmal auch trotz mehrfacher Versuche nur Mist ausgespuckt haben. Nächstes Mal wieder, versprochen.

Willkommen zu den Trenchcoat Talkers. Ein Transkript findet ihr diesmal nicht weil auphonic bzw Whispersync diesmal auch trotz mehrfacher Versuche nur Mist ausgespuckt haben. Da die 005 und 006 am selben Tag aufgenommen wurden und scheinbar den selben Fehler enthalten, gilt das leider auch für die Folge nächste Woche. Aber danach gibts wieder wie gewohnt Transkripte, versprochen.

This week's full broadcast of Computer Talk Radio includes: - 00:00 - News of the nerdy week - Crypto crashing, Netflix changing, Win11 blunder, new tech - 11:00 - Listener Q&A - Macs on a budget - Benjamin covers some things to watch for on buying used mac - 22:00 - Death of the last iPod - Keith and Benjamin cover Apple announcement of iPod doom - 31:00 - Marty Winston's Wisdom - Marty talks about high-tech foam insullation for homes - 39:00 - Scam Series - IT Alert Scam - Benjamin warns that an IT alert may be a wolf in sheeps clothing - 44:00 - Keske on tech for the blind - Steve talks about global positioning satellites and new changes - 56:00 - Listener Q&A - Benjamins past - George asks about the evolution of computing in Benjamin's life - 1:07:00 - Listener Q&A - Kindle delivery - Grace asks about Whispersync, and Benjamin gives details - 1:16:00 - Professional IT Series - 173 - Benjamin talks about Disaster Recovery drills and importance - 1:24:00 - Listener Q&A - sticky keyboard - Mercy asks Benjamin about how to address a sticky keyboard

On this very special episode of Excelsior Journeys, host & producer George Sirois looks ahead to some upcoming episodes, including the 5-part miniseries in August that celebrates the 35th anniversary of TransFormers: The Movie. He then looks back at one of the first audiobooks he ever recorded, his young adult / sci-fi novel "Excelsior," which is what inspired the name of this very podcast. Enjoy Chapter 1 of this audiobook for free. Read Excelsior on eBook by clicking HERE: https://www.amazon.com/Excelsior-Journey-Book-1-ebook/dp/B074643S2J Complete the Whispersync bundle of by downloading Excelsior on audiobook HERE: https://www.amazon.com/Excelsior-Journey-Book-1/dp/B075TJK3GP If you like what you hear and would like to share, rate & review, or support the show, please click HERE: http://hesgotit.com/podcasts   

On this very special episode of Excelsior Journeys, host & producer George Sirois looks ahead to some upcoming episodes, including the 5-part miniseries in August that celebrates the 35th anniversary of TransFormers: The Movie. He then looks back at one of the first audiobooks he ever recorded, his young adult / sci-fi novel "Excelsior," which is what inspired the name of this very podcast. Enjoy Chapter 1 of this audiobook for free. Read Excelsior on eBook by clicking HERE: https://www.amazon.com/Excelsior-Journey-Book-1-ebook/dp/B074643S2J Complete the Whispersync bundle of by downloading Excelsior on audiobook HERE: https://www.amazon.com/Excelsior-Journey-Book-1/dp/B075TJK3GP If you like what you hear and would like to share, rate & review, or support the show, please click HERE: http://hesgotit.com/podcasts   

In this episode, I'm chatting about the audiobooks I listened to in March and the new releases in April that I can recommend and am looking forward to. Find the audiobooks mentioned in this episode here on my blog: https://lovelyaudiobooks.info/audiobook-recommendations-april-2021/ And here is a link to the book list for Romance Books with Great Disability Representation I mention: https://lovelyaudiobooks.info/romance-books-about-disability/ And in case you haven't heard of Whispersync deals before, here is my blog post explaining how you can get your audiobooks cheaper with Whispersync: https://lovelyaudiobooks.info/amazon-whispersync-deals-cheaper-audiobooks/ Audio excerpted courtesy of Penguin Random House Audio from Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin, read by Ulka Simone Mohanty.

Hörbücher - auch wenn Vera noch nicht auf den Geschmack gekommen ist, wächst die Fangemeinde für vorgelesene Romane stetig. Aber wie veröffentlicht man eigentlich sein eigenes Hörbuch? Unsere Gäste Jimmy Herz und Thomas Dellenbusch gehen ganz unterschiedlich an die Sache heran und sind sich doch in vielem einig! Insbesondere in einem: Hörbuchproduktion bedeutet jede Menge Arbeit! Erfahrt in Folge 36 alles über professionelles Einsprechen, Schnitt und Vertrieb von Hörbüchern.Mit Post von Andrea BeckerDie Themen in Zeitmarken:02:06 Sie haben Post - 03:48 Thomas Dellenbusch und Jimmy Herz - 04:51 Warum produziert man Hörbücher? - 09:36 Was unterscheidet Amateure von Profisprechern? - 16:30 Den Figuren eigene Stimmen verleihen - 21:57 Wie lange dauern Aufnahmen für ein Hörbuch? - 23:54 Schnitt, Nachbearbeitung und Mastering - 32:11 Wie läuft die Veröffentlichung eines Hörbuchs für Selfpublisher und Verlage ab? - 41:76 Ebook-Hörbuch-Bundle mit WhisperSync for Voice - 47:02 Rechnet sich denn dieser ganze Aufwand überhaupt? - 54:35 Wie schaut's mit den Tantiemen aus? - 59:00 Das Ding der Woche 01:09:35 Musikalisches ExtraLinks:KopfKino-Verlag von Thomas Dellenbusch:https://www.meinkopfkino.de/ Jimmy Herz / Tommy Herzsprung:https://www.tommyherzsprung.de/buecher/

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Take a trip back with us to 1975 as we watch the very first summer blockbuster. It's got everything – shark attacks, PG nudity, Mr. Holland's Opus, nails on a chalkboard, WhisperSync, and a very slow murder shark named Bruce. We're gonna need a bigger boat.

Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research Interview starts at 13:04 and ends at 51:49 “We don't want to be constantly wired. We don't want brain implants. We just want the ability to get information and communication when we need it and the way we need it. Amazon is essentially saying, ‘in your car, on your ear, in your pocket? Sure. In your environment, your home. We're just going to thread all this together, so that you can use it when you need it, and it just disappears in the background when you don't.'” Links “Is Amazon Unstoppable?” by Charles Duhigg at The New Yorker - October 10, 2019 “Jeff Bezos's Master Plan” by Franklin Foer at The Atlantic - November, 2019 Amazon Fire HD 10 (2019) vs. Fire HD 10 (2017) by Simon Hill at Digital Trends - October 7, 2019 All-new Kindle Kids Edition ($110) at Amazon.com - Available October 30, 2019 Kindle with Audible Narration books List of 10,000+ Whispersync for Voice-enabled books for children ages 9-12 IndieWire review of “Jexi” - October 11, 2019 Oura heartrate monitor ring LOOMO personal robot - $1,799 at Amazon.com Neal Stephenson's author page at Amazon.com Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel and Reamde: A Novel by Neal Stephenson The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe Apollo by Catherine Bly Cox and Charles Murray 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! Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day's entry by saying, “Alexa, what's new?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Today's Flash Back Friday comes from Episode 128, originally published in December 2013. Donald Katz is the founder & CEO of Audible. He successfully built the world's largest seller and publisher of audiobooks. He joins the show to discuss how he built his company. Audible isn't just a successful company. It also impacts local communities. Katz believes companies should do more social work to revitalize its surroundings. He thinks "do-good" helps businesses and their goodwill assets.  Amazon recently announced that it has launched some upgrades to its Whispersync for Voice technology to make it easier for people reading Kindle books to switch between reading and listening to the Audible audiobook version on a smartphone or tablet. Katz explains this new feature. Audible just launched a creative partnership with Playtone, the celebrated television, film and music production company founded by Academy Award-winning actor-director Tom Hanks. Katz tells us more about this partnership. Website: www.Audible.com

Okay, finally.  Here is the episode where I cart out my salespitch for the oft-delayed "Ten Thousand Coffins" novella/audiobook. I talk about its inspiration, the frustrations in getting it out there, and dance around the central conceit of the story.  Hey, could you just buy it so we can move on?  You can't always get what you want, after all.  Oh, I heard 10,000 Maniacs' cover of Because The Night yesterday on the radio (yes, I still listen to the radio.  I am THAT old), and was reminded of where their name came from* and wondered if that's where my title came from.  I recall toying with calling it "A Thousand Coffins" and then upping it to various numbers, depending on how the title sounded.  I think I picked 10,000 because it sounded the best spoken aloud (better than 50,000 or 20,000, anyway), but it could have sounded good because there was a band years ago called Ten Thousand Maniacs.   Here's a link to the TEXT VERSION. And here's one for the AUDIO VERSION. This one has the WhisperSync option available, and I'm curious, have any of you ever read/listened to one of those WhisperSync books? How does it work, exactly?Thanks to Austin "Danger!" Douglas and Gino "Bridge Out!" Moretto for the cover art! To download the episode, just Right-Click HERE. To support me on Patreon, just Left-Click HERE. *There was a gory B-movie (I think by Herschel Gordon Lewis) called 2,000 MANIACS, and the band misremembered the title as 10,000 MANIACS.  When they learned of their mistake, they had already gotten used to the band name.

In this solo episode, recorded via phone, Rebecca discusses some of the issues that come about from social media fallout of sexual assault. They include: Projection Healthy Boundaries Bullying from other survivors What to do if you have been assaulted How the political aspects of the discussion mirror issues from purity culture After that, Rebecca gives a personal update and a sneak peak at her other projects. Sign up for her email list and see all the latest projects at rebeccalemke.com  If you sign up for Audible as a new member, you can get The Scarlet Virgins audiobook (with exclusive content) for free! If you are already an Audible member but have purchased the digital ebook of The Scarlet Virgins, you can get the audio version with Whispersync for a reduced price! Sign up here:  Audible link for the US: https://www.audible.com/pd/B07HXWXLF9/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-129343&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_129343_rh_us Audible link for the UK: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B07HXX41NR/?source_code=AUKFrDlWS02231890H6-BK-ACX0-129343&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_129343_rh_uk Audible link for FR: https://www.audible.fr/pd/B07HY1MJ16/?source_code=FRAORWS022318903B-BK-ACX0-129343&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_129343_rh_fr Audible link for DE: https://www.audible.de/pd/B07HXRQMX4/?source_code=EKAORWS0223189009-BK-ACX0-129343&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_129343_rh_de 

During this episode of Author Platform Rocket, Jonny Andrews continues his interview series with seven-time #1 bestselling fitness and development author Derek Doepker. Their discusses covers the areas of his process of selling over 50,000 books, the importance of increasing your influence, and the growing audio book industry. Download PDF Podcast Transcription Derek moved to Los Angeles to become a rock star and had to live with a hoarding roommate. He published his first book on Kindle and it sold three copies.  Second book of Derek’s sold more copies to strangers.  Learning about influence and relation-building was an important point of growth.  “50 Fitness Tips You Wish You Knew” sold almost $6,000 in 11 days.  Derek has been most excited about how to get more consistent sales. Audio books have increased in sales by 30% over the last year. Whispersync syncs up the Kindle with an audio book. Audio books weed out the authors that won’t take that extra step.  Understand how to get distribution for the audio book and how to create the audio book created.  ACX is available in the United States, Canada, UK, and Ireland.  Authorsrepublic.com helps authors get distribution from anywhere in the world.  You can hire a narrator and pay them flat out or do a royalty split.  Proof-read your book out loud while recording your audio book. Download PDF Podcast Transcription 3 Key Points: Derek wanted to do what he loved for a living, which is helping others through fitness and development, and get paid for it. “50 Fitness Tips You Wish You Knew” was Derek’s first book to become a #1 bestseller in Weight Loss, gaining almost $6,000 in 11 days.  Consistent books sales for Derek have benefited from Amazon Marketing Service Ads and audio books. Tweetable Quotes: -    “I published my first book on Kindle, and right out of the gate, first book I published, sold about three copies.” – Derek Doepker. -    “Do things that others aren’t willing to do.” – Jonny Andrews. -    “Quick tip, using your audio book as a bonus is a really cool thing that you can do.” – Derek Doepker. Resources Mentioned: Author Platform Rocket – Book marketing service Author Platform Rocket Podcast – Website for Author Platform Rocket Podcast Facebook – Author Platform Rocket’s Facebook Page DerekDoepker.com – Website for Derek Doepker Amazon – Derek Doepker’s Amazon page Twitter – Derek Doepker’s Twitter page BestSellerSecrets.com – Website for bestseller Secrets Audio Books Webinar– Derek Doepker’s Webinar Author’s Republic – Website for Author’s Republic 

This week, Brea and Mallory solve vacation reading dilemmas, learn where Jesus keeps his e-books and talk bookish technology with Tom Merritt! Use the hashtag #TravelingReader to participate in online discussion on Twitter and Instagram! And check our Facebook and Goodreads groups!    Links -   Whispersync https://www.amazon.com/Whispersync-for-Voice-Learn-More-Kindle-Store/b?ie=UTF8&node=12527156011   Sword and Laser http://swordandlaser.com/   Tom Merritt http://www.tommerritt.com/ http://tommerrittbooks.com/   Books Mentioned -   Heroine Worship by Sarah Kuhn https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780756413262   The House of Small Shadows by Adam Nevill https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781250068811   The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780553588941   Pilot X by Tom Merritt http://tommerrittbooks.com/blog/2016/4/9/pilot-x

Are you a writer or an author? We review Amazon’s Whispersync for Voice! Some unexpected writing tools (which do you use?). You could win “Behind Her Eyes” by Sarah Pinborough! Plus: meet Anna Daniels, author of “Girl in Between”, discover authors to follow on Instagram, and much more! Read the show notes. Connect with Valerie, Allison and listeners in the podcast community on Facebook Visit WritersCentre.com.au | AllisonTait.com | ValerieKhoo.com

I made it my goal to keep these episodes coming regularly for you! And since goal-setting is actually one of the topics of today's episode, I'm going to tell you my secret to actually hitting those goals. And, no, it's not cheating! Effectively tracking your progress is actually the best way to help you manage those goals. Not only does it keep you on top of what still needs to get done, but it's also an awesome way to keep yourself motivated. If you're a list-maker, you already know how satisfying it is to check off those boxes, so it won't surprise you when I say that measuring progress has been shown to improve happiness levels! Speaking of goals, one of my major goals for the past few years has been to read 50 books (or more!) in a year. This is the first year that I've actually been on track to achieve this goal, so I am VERY excited!  Why reading? Let me tell you! One thing that a lot of successful people have in common is that they read a lot. And I'm not talking V.C. Andrews paperbacks, either – they choose books that help them shift their ways of thinking, learn new skills, or take a more visionary approach to their industry. In this podcast, I'm going to: Give you some recommendations for some great books that can help you build your business – as well as a few bonus personal development picks Help you get the most out of your reading by sharing some of my best tips for super-organized note-taking, whether you're reading digitally or kicking it old-school Give you the low-down on some of the best reading-related apps that will help you fit more books into your busy schedule       Keep your pen and paper handy for this one!  Highlights: 2:44 What gets measured gets managed 5:30 The Blinkist app vs Kindle samples 8:40 Note-taking – get the most out of your reading! 10:15 WhisperSync it when you can't read it! 11:43 Get into Goodreads! 12:15 Amber's Amazing Book List of 2017 (So far!) Thank you for listening! Want more information and tips? Visit http://www.niceops.com and follow me on twitter and Instagram: @AmberMcCue  Mentioned in this episode: Blinkist  WhisperSync  Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh Goodreads  Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living by Shauna Niequist         The Brain Audit: Why Customers Buy (and Why They Don't) by Sean D'Souza and John Forde                   Covert Persuasion: Psychological Tactics and Tricks to Win the Game by Kevin Hogan and James Speakman                 Ask, by Ryan Levesque: Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review: The Counterintuitive Online Formula to Discover Exactly What Your Customers Want to Buy  The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything=Have Everything by Neil Pasricha  Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction by Derek Thompson  The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington                      Business Brilliant: Surprising Lessons from the Greatest Self-Made Business Icons by Lewis Schiff  E-Squared: Nine Do-It-Yourself Energy Experiments That Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality by Pam Grout  The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy by Chris Bailey  Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers by Timothy Ferriss No Limits: Blow the CAP Off Your Capacity by John C. Maxwell                 Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough     

In this episode: We love to read, but the big question we get asked his what we read. And how. Do we prefer ebooks to paper books, or audiobooks to ebooks? So we talk about how our collections have moved mostly digital for a number of reasons, not the least of which is simply the clutter that buying tons of hardcovers and paperbacks accumulate over the years. We discuss the benefits of smartphone ebook apps, and how between them and audiobooks, we can get through so many more books than we would otherwise. Speaking of audiobooks, we love them! We listen to tons of different audiobooks. Void tends to use Whispersync on Kindle to keep his place between the same book, but Beej listens to a completely different kind of book on audio than he reads. It’s like the formats work differently for each geek! Void doesn’t like books set in the real-world, but Beej is okay with them if they have good characters. We talk a lot about comics in another podcast, so we gloss over them here. We love to read them, but make sure you go back and listen to our comics episode. It really needs some love. And now...our favorite authors! People ask all the time, and if we need to break it down more specifically, we will. We talk about people like Brandon Sanderson, John Scalzi, and Patrick Rothfuss. And more than that! If you want deep-dives into any particular authors, let us know! Can you guys also leave a ratings or review on iTunes? They help a bunch, and we haven’t asked in a while. So thanks! We appreciate it! Remember that we’re having a Q&A show (AMA-style) sometime in November, so send us your questions. Twitter and the subreddit are the easiest places to get them to us. Geeky Sponsor / Offer of the Week trylootcrate.com/geek (bridge10 promo code at checkout) Weekly Geekery Beej - Getting to meet R.L. Stine in April, New MacBook Pro!, Overwatch Halloween event, Quitting my job Void -  Early Voting / More Gamefly ( Uncharted 4 / Attack on Titan / Battlefield 1 / Titanfall 2 ) / Civ VI Be sure to subscribe to the Geek to Geek Podcast your favorite podcast app, drop a review so we know how we’re doing, and feel free contact us via email at geektogeekcast@gmail.com or @geektogeekcast on Twitter with any comments, questions, or suggestions for the show. Thanks for listening, and we can’t wait to hear from you! Geek Offer of the Week: http://www.gameflyoffer.com/geek Subscribe: iTunes Overcast Pocket Casts Google Play Music RSS Feed Geek to Geek Podcast Network: Geek to Geek Geek Fitness Health Hacks The Comic Box Video Game News Now Music by CarboHydroM

Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss Rahmin Bahrani's latest film 99 Homes, our identity obsession with Wesley Morris, and Dana Stevens's travelogue meditation about her recent trip to Japan.   The Slate Culture Gabfest is brought to you by Whispersync for Voice, an Amazon and Audible innovation. Add narration to more than 60,000 Kindle bestsellers and popular titles. Read on your tablet and when it's time to go, pick up where you left off by switching to audio and listening on your phone. Learn more about Whispersync for Voice by visiting amazon.com/culturefest. And by Beech Nut Organics. At Beech Nut, homemade is their inspiration. It’s not baby food. It’s real food for babies—real organic fruits and vegetables, and nothing more. Nobody else makes food for babies this way! Beech Nut Organics are now available at Target. Go to BeechNutGabFest.com and enter to win a year's worth of food. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss Rahmin Bahrani's latest film 99 Homes, our identity obsession with Wesley Morris, and Dana Stevens's travelogue meditation about her recent trip to Japan.   The Slate Culture Gabfest is brought to you by Whispersync for Voice, an Amazon and Audible innovation. Add narration to more than 60,000 Kindle bestsellers and popular titles. Read on your tablet and when it's time to go, pick up where you left off by switching to audio and listening on your phone. Learn more about Whispersync for Voice by visiting amazon.com/culturefest. And by Beech Nut Organics. At Beech Nut, homemade is their inspiration. It’s not baby food. It’s real food for babies—real organic fruits and vegetables, and nothing more. Nobody else makes food for babies this way! Beech Nut Organics are now available at Target. Go to BeechNutGabFest.com and enter to win a year's worth of food.

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Stöd oss på www.patreon.com/appsnack   I panelen: Tobias Hieta, Michael Ploug Gartner. Programmet leds av Calle Gisselsson.   Nyheter Apple gör mer av sin videoproduktion inhouse   Reeder 2 är äntligen släppt för Mac Ladda ner här: Reeder 2   Microsoft visar upp översättning av Skype-samtal i realtid Microsoft visar upp Skype 5   Dags att köpa Appleaktier?   Veckans rykten iWatch Apple sägs presentera ”iWatch” under ett Special Event i oktober Apple's iWatch Said to Feature Round Design, Production May Start This Summer iWatch will run iOS 8 and launch this October   iPhone 6 iPhones låsknapp flyttas – enligt påstådda läckbilder Apple påstås bana väg för Lightning-hörlurar   Ett MAC rykte! Evidence of Upcoming Retina iMacs Showing Up in OS X Yosemite Beta Veckans snackis - SWIFT IOS 8!   Swift - Vi hörde alla hur utvecklarna på WWDC gick bananas när det nya programmeringsspråket Swift presenterades. Men... Varför blev utvecklarna så exalterade? Vad betyder det för mig som konsument? Var det rätt av Apple att utveckla ett eget språk, kontra gå över till ett mer modernt, men befintligt och öppet språk? ÄR swift bara för ios och osx Om man funderar på att börja koda. Är det swift man ska lära sig? Swift is great, but you should still know Objective-C first The Swift Programming Language iBook Länk till kodsnack där de pratar mer ingående om Swift ? iOS8 Bör man installera Betan? Det kanske kommer multitasking ändå? Vilka är de hetaste nyheterna? Phillips Hue notification center widget already in the works for iOS 8 Explaining iOS 8’s extensions: Opening the platform while keeping it secure Swype och SwiftKey – två nya tangentbord på väg till iOS 8 All the tiny tweaks Apple sneaked into iOS 8 9 nyheter i iOS 8 som Apple inte pratade om More iOS 8 Features Hur Apples nya fotolagring genererar nya miljardintäkter iCloud Priser Veckans lyssnarfråga   Namn: Mattias Ohlson!   Meddelande: Då får jag väl komma med fler beställningar eftersom Appsnack levererar. Vi kan börja med att lägga till Dark mode även iOS8. När vi har ångan upp så förordar jag att steglös zoom alltid skall vara tillgänglig i alla appar och delar av operativet. Alla har sin egen definition på läsbara typsnitt och grafik.   Till sist måste jag säga att WWDC sammanfattning vär toppen.   =======================   Niels Eék   @AppSnackse grejen med Siri och podcast är att ni måste säga "podcast" innan ni säger titeln på podcasten. Jag antar att podcast är nyckelordet som Siri hör för att sedan leta efter rätt podcast =======================   Namn: Kent Hosselton   Meddelande : Hej, Jag tycker också att kunna synka eboklläsning med ljudboklyssning vore kanon. Amazon har sin Whispersync som gör det. Storytel lär komma snart med samma sak. Vore fint om Apple gjorde sin egen variant. /kent Veckans tips   Veckans iOS-tips Majk: AppStore historik - en nostalgisk resa genom apptiderna Stöd oss på www.patreon.com/appsnack

Donald Katz is the founder & CEO of Audible. He successfully built the world's largest seller and publisher of audiobooks. He joins the show to discuss how he built his company.  Audible isn't just a successful company. It also impacts local communities. Katz believes companies should do more social work to revitalize its surroundings. He thinks "do-good" helps businesses and their goodwill assets.  Amazon recently announced that it has launched some upgrades to its Whispersync for Voice technology to make it easier for people reading Kindle books to switch between reading and listening to the Audible audiobook version on a smartphone or tablet. Katz explains this new feature.  Audible just launched a creative partnership with Playtone, the celebrated television, film and music production company founded by Academy Award-winning actor-director Tom Hanks. Katz tells us more about this partnership. Visit Audible at www.audible.com.

Onderwerpen Floris is het voorbije weekend naar IBC geweest in Amsterdam en heeft daar best wel leuke dingen gezien. Nokia lanceert de Lumia 920 met Windows Phone 8. Amazon toonde vorige week nieuwe Kindles waaronder de Kindle Fire HD en de Kindle Paperwhite. En misschien wel het leukste nieuws: Whispersync tussen Kindle-boeken en Audible-boeken. We doen snel een paar voorspellingen rond de Apple-aankondiging van 12 september. Hootsuite koopt Seesmic. En wordt dit het begin van de Instapaper Copyright Wars? Tips Marco's 'Kickstarter-project van de week': Sprout Jan: ES File Explorer en Jans 'sociale netwerk van de week': 43things Maarten: ClassDojo voor iOS Cindy: Graboid Floris: Screach