Well, I’ve gone and done it! My blog is now officially available thru Amazon.com for download to your Kindle device of choice. For the amazingly bargain basement price of $0.99 per month you can now get my madness automatically downloaded every time I post an update. Yes you read it right, per month. [1]It is only available on actual Kindle devices vs. the Kindle reader app than can be installed on many mobile OS’s.
First, I didn’t choose the price, Amazon did. While you can still (and will always) get my blog perfectly free on the web, you can now fork over a measly dollar a month for the convenience of having it updated automatically for you if you wish.
Second, this was not about money but exposure. For such a small fee I’m clearly not looking for profit. It is my hope to increase my user base. I’ve only been back at it steadily a short time now, yet I’ve already had several people reach out to me and tell me how much my blog has meant to them. It’s been a humbling experience to say the least.
Depending on how well it goes, I may at some point decide to disable my internal subscription service. It’s become very laborious to manage and keep up with. For now, nothing has changed. My RSS feed is still available directly from my blog for free. The Kindle route is about convenience and hopefully, more exposure.
Last but not least, my content will still be my normal ramblings, opinions, ideas, pet-peeves, etc. From what I’ve seen, nothing I post or write about comes anywhere close to violating any of Amazon’s TOS. I don’t foresee any need to censor myself. If it does, it is easy to manipulate what enters my RSS feed. [2]Amazon loads my blog via the RSS feed. I am not sure how pictures translate to Kindle devices so I will still need to work that out.
As for content, from what I’ve seen on some of the listings so far, most of my content is perfectly acceptable. The only real difference you might notice is reposting content from my old blog. Since my old blog isn’t tied to the new one, I may from time to time repost some of my older more significant posts.
That’s it. A big welcome to any new readers and a big thank you to anyone else subscribing thru!
Don't kill the internal subscription method! I'm a loyal user here!
@Dan ~ Nothing has changed and if/when it does I'll give everyone a heads up way in advance. I will have to eventually implement something else as the current system is just becoming too hard to manage. There will always be a free option via the web directly. I guess I should have clarified that.
Whore. 😉
Or be a
cheapfrugal type and just get your blog via RSS feed like I do. Since it's wordpress based you just append /feed to the end of the blog address and drag it to your RSS reader.If it's a Blogger site, just add /atom.xml to the end and drag it to the RSS reader.
I didn't even know such a thing existed. Good luck with it. I would feel to much pressure to be prolific with my posts if I thought folks were paying to read my blog.
I still read every word you post…perhaps this will give others the opportunity to experience what we've all been enjoying for so long.
But I do have a question… are you looking for fame?
" not about money but exposure"? Exposure? Haven't you been exposed enough on the internet?
Yes, I had to go there.
@TonkaManOR ~ See afore mentioned comment about getting out of my gutter! 🙂