Add your blog to the Amazon Kindle!
Can you imagine having your very own Amazon Kindle blog? This is a very nice way to get exposure for your blog, promote whatever you’re selling and/or make affiliate income. If you use some careful strategizing, I don’t see why you couldn’t make additional affiliate income through the Amazon Kindle subscription to your blog. With no cost to submit your blog to the Kindle store, it’s a superb marketing opportunity for those of you who know how to make money with your blogs primarily through affiliate income.
From Amazon’s website: Kindle Blogs are delivered wirelessly and updated throughout the day. Blogs on Kindle contain full text and images, unlike an RSS feed. The subscription fee for most blogs is $1.99. As a blog owner, you receive a 30% commission of the subscription fee.
My note: Amazon is fooling around with the pricing and should update the terms. I read that the initial $2 will be dropped to $.99 in a week or so on most blogs. At the moment, the blog publisher is not in control of their own pricing.
Follow these 6 simple steps to get your blog up for electronic readers to enjoy:
1. Go to Kindle Publishing for Blogs.
2. You will be asked to start a free vendor account so you can add blogs and apps to the Kindle. If you have an existing account for selling Amazon will want a different email address and password. Setting up a separate email from your regular email is recommended anyhow.
3. The page will loop you back around to the intro page. Just click on the “blog” link at the top. Yes, that part was a bit confusing. This takes you to the blog dashboard.
4. You will provide some general information about your blog, including a brief description. Don’t get hunup on the RSS feed. All you have to do is pull up your blog page and go to the view link on the browser bar. It will let you see the source code. near the top you’ll see RSS feed. Most of the time it will be your URL for the blog /feed or /feed2 or /rss.xml or /atom.xml. Just copy and paste that address for the RSS feed information. Simple.
5. Make a screen shot of your blog. Just open your blog on your screen and hit PrtSc key. Then use a picture editor to crop it. On a Windows PC, you can use the free paint program on your accessories tab. Save as an image file to your desktop. Upload the screen shot to the Kindle application.
6. You can preview how your blog will be displayed. Click the publish button.
It takes a few days for your blog to appear in the Kindle store.
From Amazon: Your blog was published successfully. Your blog will be available on the Kindle Store in 48-72 hours.
I would certainly add an advertising button with a URL to the subscription on your blog page sidebar to drive traffic to the subscription. How many Kindle readers are reading electronic information and have no problem paying for that information? Think about how the affiliate and information publisher opportunity exists with folks who are already spending money for information.
The customer base is growing daily. Your blog exposure can’t be measured. You might as well make your blog available to them. It’s free.
Along with this free tool I plan to enlighten you to many of Amazon’s publishing tools. I’ve been selling on Amazon for quite some time and have learned a bunch about their great publishing programs. Most are a low cost to use.
Oh, and if you’re like me and love reading blogs here’s list of a few on Kindle: http://kindlewiki.wikispaces.com/List+of+Kindle+Blogs
To Your Online Selling Success!
PS Sign up and get your blog on Kindle today. Charge the least amount subscription fee and watch your reader base grow!
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Very good information that I did not know before. Amazon is brilliant at expanding their offerings. Clearly a scalable model for those of us who want to consume our information online and provide others valuable information online. Brave New World! Thanks, Julie, for sharing this.
Best,
Mary
Julie, wow, this information about publishing your blog on the Amazon Kindle is terrific especially at the price (free). I’ve just submitted my blog to be published on the Amazon Kindle. Great opportunity to grow my readers and get exposure and make some affiliate commission in the process.
Two quite notes, you can only reach the Kindle Publishing for Blogs page via IE or Firefox. Also it didn’t ask me what subscription fee to charge.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Great information,
Jill
Hey Jill,
Thanks for your comments and observations. I just updated my post with a note under the first quote form Amazon. Indeed, Amazon is not allowing publishers to change their pricing at the moment. I think it is unwise of Amazon to do so. We, as blog writers, have a better idea about how much our subscriber base is willing to pay. Otherwise, I have found the idea to be great. Glad you benefited from my post. Good luck to you!
JA