This may come as a surprise but people do to read blogs on the go via Amazon Kindle.
Amazon charges a monthly fee (around $1) per blog subscription but does offer some benefits in return. For example, Kindle subscribers are always provided with full blog articles (not excerpts) and second, Kindle will always download the entire blog content (similar to prefetching in FeedDemon) so subscribers can read blogs even while offline.
How to Get Your Blog on Amazon Kindle
Almost all popular blogs (including Digital Inspiration) are available for subscription through Amazon Kindle but if you are just a small publisher and like to get your own blog listed on the Kindle store, here’s what you may do:
Step 1: If your current RSS feed includes advertising (like AdSense for Feeds) or you offer only partial feeds, create a new feed for your blog that is both full-text and ad-free.
Update: You can skip the following steps as anyone can now publish blogs on Amazon Kindle.
Step 2: Go to Amazon.com and fill their interest form. This is the official approach but Amazon says they have a huge backlog so you never know how long will it take for Amazon to approve your blog for the Kindle store.
Step 3: Other than the official Amazon channel, you may also want to partner with Newstex. Become a content provider at Newstex by filling this form and they’ll directly work with Amazon to get your blog listed on the Kindle store.
That’s how Digital Inspiration got into the Kindle store. There’s no listing fees and Amazon will pay you 30% of the revenue per Kindle user who subscribes to your blog.
Related hack: Buy Books and Magazines for Kindle outside US
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/gadgets/get-blog-listed-on-amazon-kindle-store/6140/
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Reader Comments
Congrats on getting listed on Amazon!
Written by Peeyush on 12.19.08
No doubt Amit you are brilliant and dig the net galaxy to find the unknown, I am always thankful to you and consider you my blog’s Guru, You are truly a (Digital) Inspiration for many of us, long live, take care : )
Written by Piyush on 12.19.08
…Oops Amit I have Adsense for feeds on my RSS, than how to create a new feed for my blog that is both full-text and ad-free.
Would it is compatible with Adsense policies to create an another parallel, Ad free feed? Hope you will reply…
Written by Piyush on 12.19.08
Piyush - I don’t think creating a parallel feed would have any issues with AdSense.
You can simply use FeedBurner to create this “ad-free” and “full text” feed.
Written by Amit on 12.21.08