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Kindle Blog Statistics

February 11, 2011

Amazon offers subscriptions to blogs within their Kindle platform. Every day when your readers wake up, your new content is waiting on their Kindle. Since the Kindle home screen’s default setting is to show newest content first, you could be the first thing they see every time they look at that home screen. How’s that [...]

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Publish Your Blog for Kindle

February 9, 2011

Kindles aren’t just for books. People also subscribe to blogs on their Kindles. It usually costs around $1.99 a month (the price is set by Amazon) and is a great way to offer your content to all those new Kindle owners monetize your blog increase the prestige of your blog (‘available through Amazon’ automatically makes [...]

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Who Needs Publishers? Amazon’s 70 Percent Royalties For Kindle Books

July 7, 2010

Amazon’s Digital Text Platform (DTP) program allows you to compete on a level playing field in the ebook space, even if you have never spoken to a traditional publisher about your title. If you have a business book, a recipe collection, a memoir, a romance about vampires and wolverines, Amazon says, simply upload your title [...]

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New eReader from Barnes & Noble: The Nook

October 21, 2009

Barnes and Noble have released a new eReader, which looks suspiciously like the Kindle with a few “Look I’m Different” features….Should we be concerned that too much power is in too few hands?

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Create Your Own Kindle eBooks

July 26, 2009

If you’re lucky enough to have a Kindle or a Kindle 2, there is no need to go spending good money to put your own content on there. If you have PDFs, HTML docs, word processor documents that you’d like to carry around on your Kindle, you can either pay 10c a doc to have [...]

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Is Your Content Kindle-Ready?

February 23, 2009

On Tuesday, Feb 24, Amazon will release the second version of its Kindle ebook reader, and the media are already full of stories about ebooks. The time has never been better to release your content digitally and, to capitalize on the news, to release your content in a Kindle-ready format.

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