Amazon has introduced a plan to allow all blog owners to add their blog to the Kindle e-book store. Certain large blogs have been available in their store for a while now, with monthly subscription fees ranging from $1 to $2 (for big-name blogs with lots of readership). With the new system, a blog owner can create an account to sell their blog in the store as well, but with a catch.
The catch is this: Amazon gets to keep 70% of the subscription fee. You get the rest, which will be anywhere from $0.30 to $0.60 (if you're not a nobody like me) per user per month. Amazon says they will set the prices to a "fair value", whatever that means.
So let me get this straight. I write something (well, to be honest, most bloggers aren't actually writing, myself included) which might take quite a bit of my time, submit it to Amazon so that some small number of device users can read them, and you're only giving me 30%?
I guess that's why this is called "my two cents' worth".
Posted
May 14 2009, 11:17 AM
by
Jody Farr