(NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon.com announced today “The Kindle Singles
Interview,” a new series designed to take full advantage of the Kindle
Singles platform by offering major long-form interviews with iconic
figures and world leaders. The Kindle Singles Interview is a new
exclusive series in the Kindle Singles store (www.amazon.com/kindlesingles).
The debut Kindle Singles Interview, “The Optimist,” is an interview with
Shimon Peres, the 89-year-old President of Israel.
Peres, who turns 90 on August 2, was elected president of Israel in
2007. He previously served two terms as Israel’s Prime Minister, and won
the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 (with Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin) for
his role in the peace negotiations that led to the Oslo Accords. In “The
Optimist,” President Peres insisted that forthcoming peace talks
arranged by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry are serious, and asserted
that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is a partner for
peace. He also called for a peaceful resolution to his country’s
conflicts with Iran, declaring that “sanctions are functioning” and
adding that “I wouldn’t like to start anything by shooting.” In a nearly
two-hour conversation last Sunday, President Peres described Facebook’s
Mark Zuckerberg as the most important revolutionary leader in the world
today. “Karl Marx never forecast Zuckerberg,” Peres said. “He made a
revolution with a billion people.”
“In September of 1962, novelist Alex Haley’s conversation with Miles
Davis launched the Playboy Interview, and pioneered the idea of a
long-form, extended dialogue with the great personalities of our time,”
said David Blum, editor of Kindle Singles. “We hope to carry forward
that tradition, and use the unlimited digital space to engage great
artists and thinkers in conversation with skilled writers and
interviewers.”
The interview was conducted by David Samuels, in association with Tablet
Magazine. Samuels is a contributing editor at Harper’s and a longtime
contributor to The New Yorker and The Atlantic, and the author of Only
Love Can Break Your Heart and The Runner. Tablet Magazine (tabletmag.com)
is the daily online magazine of Jewish news, ideas, and culture.
The Kindle Singles Interview is available for $0.99 exclusively to
Kindle customers in the Kindle Singles store (www.amazon.com/kindlesingles).
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com,
Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on
the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth’s Biggest
Selection. Amazon.com,
Inc. seeks to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers
can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and
endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com
and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used
items in categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital
Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby;
Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors;
and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon’s
developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services
based on Amazon’s own back-end technology platform, which developers can
use to enable virtually any type of business. Kindle Paperwhite is the
most-advanced e-reader ever constructed with 62% more pixels and 25%
increased contrast, a patented built-in front light for reading in all
lighting conditions, extra-long battery life, and a thin and light
design. The new latest generation Kindle, the lightest and smallest
Kindle, now features new, improved fonts and faster page turns. Kindle
Fire HD features a stunning custom high-definition display, exclusive
Dolby audio with dual stereo speakers, high-end, laptop-grade Wi-Fi with
dual-band support, dual-antennas and MIMO for faster streaming and
downloads, enough storage for HD content, and the latest generation
processor and graphics engine—and it is available in two display
sizes—7” and 8.9”. The large-screen Kindle Fire HD is also available
with 4G wireless, and comes with a groundbreaking $49.99 introductory 4G
LTE data package. The all-new Kindle Fire features a 20% faster
processor, 40% faster performance, twice the memory, and longer battery
life.
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