Have You Added Your Blog to the Amazon Kindle Yet?

27 November 2009, 4:53 am

Seems like everyone has a blog nowadays. Do you? Many of my friends on Facebook have blogs and I read or subscribe to nearly every one of them. There are so many blogs out there that I sometimes find myself spending hours reading all of my favorites and also discovering new ones. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to read them when I’m away from my laptop?

Enter the Amazon Kindle. For 3 years now the Kindle has enabled people to read books, magazines and newspapers on this wireless device by simply downloading a file from Amazon.com. Did you know that for a small monthly subscription price you can download your favorite blogs too?

Why pay for a Kindle subscription when you can read the blog for free on your computer? Simply put, portability. If you have certain blogs that you just don’t want to wait until you get home to read, the Kindle blog subscription may be for you. The Kindle offers the ability to read on the subway, on the bleachers, on your lunch hour, in the waiting room, in the grocery line, etc. I can easily see why these wireless devices are so popular. As a bookseller I’m not happy about the potential lost sales that occur every time someone buys a downloadable book, but I’d be a fool to think that these nifty little portable devices are just a temporary fad. They’re here. They’re staying. Our lifestyles are not going to slow down anytime soon. Neither will the sales of these devices, in my opinion.

Here’s a link to my blog subscription so you can see what it looks like:

It’s very easy to add your blog to Amazon. Just go here to apply. If you sell on Amazon already, this is a separate account. It’s free to apply and you will receive 30% of every subscription sold. Most blogs, including mine, sell for $0.99 per month. Right now, there doesn’t appear to be a way to change the price.

What are you waiting for? Why not get some extra exposure?