This week Amazon opened the doors to blog owners around the world, allowing them to publish their blogs on the Amazon Kindle. Previously, Amazon only offered major blogs through the Kindle.
If you’re a blog owner, that means Kindle user’s can now get your blog posts delivered to them automatically…and they can read your blog on their Kindle just as they would a book.
How does it work? It’s pretty simple. You just go here to register your blog with Kindle. You’ll be required to provide information about your blog, upload some images and provide tax information.
Why tax information? Because people who want to read your blog on their Kindle won’t get it for free…they’ll have to pay $2 or so a month. And Amazon shares a portion of that revenue with you…around 30%.
It will be interesting to see if publishing your blog on Amazon Kindle can be an effective marketing tool. Right now, it’s way too early to tell. But I always like to be an early adapter, so the Web Video University blog is now on Kindle. But unfortunately, I couldn’t put my podcast site on Kindle, as it’s all video…which the Kindle can’t (currently) handle.
To see how a listing for your blog appears on Amazon, take a look at my Kindle blog listing here.
Dave,
This tip and the MP4 tip are an amazing. Thank you so much for providing this valuable information. Could you do a post advising what software will best encode your video at the highest quality for the lowest file size? Perhaps do a comparison of Sorenson Squeeze, Cleaner, Adobe Flash and some of the free apps like Visual Hub and FFMPEGX.
Regards,
Justin C.
NYC
Dave,
This was great. No one else has even mentioned this and I went ahead and signed up right away. Even if I don’t make a single sale, I appreciate knowing that there’s another way to get my content distributed online.
Keep up the great work!
Susan
@Justin – All encoding tools can produce different results for any given video…they all effect brightness, contrast, color, sharpness, etc. differently, from video to video. If you’re looking for the best quality, you have to run a sample of your video through each tool and then decided. And the final tool you choose can literally change from video to video. In other words, there’s no “one best”. What’s best varies from video to video.
I am confused. Nobody seens to provide a clear explanation on the internet on whether this Kindle Blog is same as Amazon “Blogs We Read”. I would like to publish my blog on it.