You can now get iReaderReview delivered straight to your Kindle.
Because I chose the option of daily multiple posts it’s for $1.99 and if paying for blogs on Kindle doesn’t make sense to you that’s fine.
Not too happy about the price – however, given that Amazon have to pay 12 cents per MB I understand why they can’t do it free.
After thinking a lot I did want to get the blog on the kindle store – mostly for people who don’t know about the blog yet, and for people who’d like to get it automatically on their Kindles.
You can always check it here, or subscribe to the full RSS feeds. Thanks for visiting the site!
I’m perplexed by their pricing. Their Daily (not multiple) for one-person blogs is the same cost ($1.99) as the major newspaper ones with several people writing and multiple posts everyday. I don’t see how that works for Amazon or for us in a narrower area of interest. Yours is broader than usual for Kindle blogs and more thought is put into it, with independent analysis, but most aren’t.
Since I don’t plan to do an entry every single day, I’ve now trying the option for “2-5 times a week” since I’d feel guilty not posting something each day if someone’s paying that (thinking of yearly cost). Let’s see if they’ll drop that to $.99/mo. or not.
And what happens if in one week, one does do an entry for 6 of the 7 days. I guess the delivery is scheduled only on certain days?
– A (wondering what they were thinking when they priced this)
Follow-up. They ‘republished’ the page at an expectation of a rate of 2-5 times a week and they still charge $1.99, alas.
Andrys,
i’ve been tweaking the settings trying to see if it’ll go down to $1 for a setting. however, since i post quite often i’m stuck at the $1.99 level.
there really should be an option to let blog authors set a lower price.
How much of the 1.99 do you get? I would be more inclined to purchase the blog to support you.
I’m having a very hard time justifying paying for the blogs I read since each one only accounts for a few minutes reading a day. However, I really can’t stand piracy and think people should be compensated for their work; either directly or through advertising.
What I would really like to see is a piece of software similar to Itunes which could automatically organize and send AZW formatted documents to my kindle and assist me in keeping it cleaned up. I really think this would be a viable service now that Amazon has instituted the 15 cents per MB charge.
Short of a service, it would be great if you could provide a download link on your site so that we could download your blog already formatted for Kindle.
Darrel, at this point I don’t feel $2 is justified so i’d rather you didn’t subscribe. I do appreciate the support. I get $.70 out of the $1.99. I’d gladly switch to a $1 price even it if meant low or close to no revenue since spreading the blog and reaching more people would be a big advantage.
I’ll take a look at making the blog available for reading in .azw or a compatible format.
Until Amazon lowers the blog price (but maybe our words really add up and the traffic can be a hit on their whispernet?) . there is always kindlefeeder.com — but because of the e-mail-to-Kindle charges now, that’s not as attractive to some even if the service itself is free for up to 12 feeds in one file, per day. Donations accepted for server expenses.
The Amazon file-email charge means .15 /day x 30 = $4.50/mo. (which I would think was worth it for that many feeds and which tax the free service’s servers. There are tests about doing this in various ways.
I went for the premium for $20/yr which gets us unlimited feeds and I can download straight from the service’s server to my Kindle.
But I also subscribe to some of Amazon’s offerings because navigation’s optimized for the blogs/newspapers.
However, Amazon sends last 25 items or so with their daily blogs, but overwrites the blog contents whenever a new blog item appears. You still get the last 25.
Kindlefeeder does it by date so you can keep the ones you don’t want to toss, to use as a database if you want.
Your blog is a feed that was requested, so is on the list there.
I still say, switch11, that yours is the Kindle blog I now read regularly because of all the original thought that goes into it. it’s not that the $2 isn’t justified, it’s just that in this world, with so many blogs!, and the economic situation, it’s a psychological barrier. If we do this with one, what about all the others we read. One small step
I personally think you should have a Support this website box in an unobtrusive place and let people decide if they’d like to and how much from time to time. Hmmm. Since Kindlefeeder uses a prc file that one can download when one wants the latest, you could do that too, I guess, but you update a lot.
Feedbooks.com offers customized groups of feeds too but it’s not as convenient. However the website is seen on the listing.
thanks Andrys for the kind words.
an all you can read blogs subscription package does make sense.
don’t really need the ‘support this blog via donations’ buttons. readers taking their time to visit and read the blog or the feed is good (linking to the blog or individual posts is always appreciated
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banner ads and donation buttons don’t seem worthwhile to me. they simply detract from the user experience.
Amazon doesn’t allow emailing to kindles via automated services so it would have to be something where people come download it from the blog. which sort of defeats the purpose.
will see if i can figure out a way to do easy .prc conversions of blog posts.