I read this post this morning over at Tech Crunch. Amazon has started Kindle Publishing for Blogs. Here’s the weird thing. Anyone can put any RSS feed and sell it to Kindle users – even if they are not the authors. I thought I’d test it out with my blog to see if I could sell a subscription without verifying that I was the author.
Sure enough, I can sell a subscription to this blog to kindle owners. I didn’t have to verify that I was the owner.
Here’s another weird thing. The base price is $1.99 a month. You read that correctly…$1.99 a month to subscribe to a blog that you can read for free on-line.
Here’s a second weird thing. You can read blogs for free on a Kindle. It’s really quite simple…here’s how.
Final weird thing. I can’t set the price lower than $1.99. I was sort of hoping to set at what I’ve already set it at on the internet…you know…free.
No offense to my past temporal parts, but I wouldn’t pay a $1.99 a year to read this blog. Especially since I can read it for free on my laptop, my office desktop, my smartphone, and…a Kindle.
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