Promote Your Blog on the Kindle
May 20, 2009 by Anna Farmery
Filed under Social Media
Amazon launched a self-service platform for the Kindle, which lets bloggers publish their blog in the Kindle Store using standard RSS. You need to sign up for a blog vendor account, input the details of your blog and then Amazon will pay bloggers for each subscription sign up from the Kindle.
Before you think that you can retire from work, the agreement means that Kindle charge $2 for the subscription with 
Amazon getting 70% and individual publishers getting 30% of the revenue.
Also there is another concern for me. Why would you pay when you can get the RSS for free? Maybe it is a way of reaching those people who simply don’t understand RSS or who are moving to non RSS social media tools? What are your thoughts?
But hey, this is a great move for blogs and can be another way that you can promote your work. You can see the Kindle page for The Engaging Brand here.
I was reading the small print in the Amazon kindle blog publishing agreement the other day and I was really uncertain about ownership and usage rights. It almost read that Amazon has the right to publish my blog postings anywhere and anyway it wants. I would keep the original copyright (I publish under CC license anyway), but the language about Amazon’s rights seemed unclear to me. Can you enlighten me on what signing up entails in that respect?
Gayle
Good question. I just want to double check, but will post about it to help
Anna