19 January 2015
Yesterday at the Digital Book World conference in New York, Amazon's Russ Grandinetti, Senior Vice for Kindle, was interviewed by Michael Cader of Publishers Lunch and Mike Shatzkin of the IdeaLogical Company.
Grandinetti took over digital books at Amazon in 2009 and has administered nearly every segment of company's book business over time.
The following is an edited transcript of their conversation, sometimes paraphrased for clarity: