Stropp’s World Has Been Kindle-ified
Posted by Stropp on May 14, 2009Unless you’ve been hiding in a cave for the past twelve months or so, guarded by dragons, Martians, and giant robots, you have probably heard of Amazon’s eBook reader called the Kindle. It’s a marvelous little device that allows a customer to buy books from Amazon in an electronic format and wirelessly download them to read. In a lot of ways it reminds me of those ‘pads’ that were used a lot in the three Star Trek series, TNG, DS9, and Voyager. The Kindle is a step towards that future… not there yet, but going in the right direction.
Just today Amazon has added a new feature to their Kindle store, and that feature is the ability for a customer to subscribe to and read a blog on the device. You can choose from a number of popular (and perhaps not-so-popular) blogs and purchase a monthly subscription for either $0.99 or $1.99 (price decided by Amazon.)
So today at lunch-time, I signed up for an Amazon account, and added Stropp’s World to the Kindle Store. It has been listed at $1.99 per month, and you get a 14 day free trial to see if you’d like to keep reading Stropp’s World on the Kindle.
If you do decide to remain as a subscriber, I will receive 30 percent of that price, which is approximately 60 cents.
At the moment the Stropp’s World listing is a little spare. That’s because I set it up over lunch at work and wasn’t able to set up the images properly. I’ll look into that a little later tonight. The service also uses the blogs RSS feed so you should see the pages as they look in a RSS feeder. This is a beta service by Amazon however, so I’m not sure how it will turn out in practice.
(If you have a Kindle and decide to subscribe, I’d appreciate a photo of the Kindle with the blog on it, you can send it to stropp at stroppsworld dot com, or if you could upload the images and send me a link, that would be great too.)
Ironically, the Kindle is only available to US (or perhaps North American) subscribers — I think this is due to the Kindle using a cell phone service) — so I cannot subscribe to my own blog. I’m hoping the Kindle will be available here in Australia one of these days.
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That is pretty interesting although I’m not sure how they get people to pay for something that is freely available. Let us know if you get some subscribers
I’ll definitely let you know what happens.
I was wondering the same about paying for something available free. I guess it’s the idea that the Kindle is a more convenient device than even a laptop and that you’ll be able to read subscribed blogs anywhere you can receive a cell phone signal. I figure some folks will pay 2 bucks a month for that convenience, though I think the bigger blogs like Gizmodo will do better out of it.
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