Kindle and WP.com Blogs

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  timethief · Member · Dec 2, 2007 at 6:59 pm

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  Here is a link to some funny one-liners on Kindle that I couldn’t resist posting http://www.90percentofeverything.com/

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 2, 2007 at 11:39 pm

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  Boles: now THAT is an interesting number. I’m definitely going to be covering this in my literary gathering; I’ll take particular pleasure in pointing it out to the publishers.

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  boles · Member · Dec 3, 2007 at 12:52 pm

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  rain: Yes, 35% is a gift to authors when we’re used to getting around 10% if we’re lucky.

  So many “authors” who are publishing their Kindle books are complaining about Amazon’s 65% cut — we who know laugh at them because they obviously have no real experience as published authors.

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  boles · Member · Dec 3, 2007 at 12:53 pm

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  Here is my Kindle Review and it covers publishing to the Kindle platform, managing content and the curious fact that women especially seem keen on the device:

  http://urbansemiotic.com/2007/12/03/my-kingdom-for-a-kindle-or-two-or-six/

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  boles · Member · Dec 7, 2007 at 8:30 pm

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  Update:

  Amazon just told me you must send a full RSS feed if you want them to present and promote your blog on the Kindle.

  Most publishers, I was told, send a private, full feed to Amazon using FeedbBurner where you can choose to send a full or truncated feed. Most publishers now use a truncated feed for the general public because of RSS scrapers.

  There’s no way to send a private, full RSS feed here from WP.com, right? It’s either full or truncated for both public and private use, right?

  TypePad offers a couple of nice things where you can click a box and have a Google sitemap created and you can also re-burn your official blog RSS feed via FeedBurner if you so choose.