TKC 404 James McQuivey

Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research   Interview starts at 12:00 and ends at 44:01   I’ve got to write this down in a way that helps people understand how this cycle works, where technology comes in and allows us to render scarcity irrelevant. And then what’s the business strategy to do this? And that’s where I point to people like Uber, Airbnb, Amazon—who are in the habit of saying, “How could we give people more for less?” Which is not the way traditional business was operating.   News Kindle Oasis at Amazon.com Check out $20 off deals on Kindle, Kindle for Kids Bundle, and Kindle Paperwhite! (Not sure how long they will last.) My 17-minute video review of Kindle Oasis, featuring Darlene’s comments in her quilting studio - April 27, 2016 Fintie Oasis cover story by Chris Meadows at TeleRead “Amazon in Talks to Create Virtual Reality Content” by Joan E. Solsman at The Wrap - April 26, 2016 “Amazon Studios May be gearing up to make its own original VR content” by Bryan Bishop at The Verge - April 26, 2016 Ricoh Theta M15 360 Degree camera Samsung Gear VR headset (requires Samsung smartphone) 360 YouTube video of Susan Carlson’s quilting class - April 25, 2016  “Susan Carlson: Quilting in the Key of Life” at lenedgerly.com - April 27, 2016 Samsung’s Gear 360 camera “Easier Reading? My $280 Oasis without bold or my 2013 Paperwhite with an all-bold file? See for yourself” by David Rothman at TeleRead - April 28, 2016   Interview with James McQuivey “Brief: Digital Winners Know That More is More” by James McQuivey with Oliwia Berdak, Michelle MOorehead, Anna Berman, and Diane Lynch (one-paragraph summary; full report costs $349)   Next Week’s Guest Paul St John Mackintosh, associate editor of TeleRead   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 Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.    Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!