I am excited to announce that my blog is now available in the Kindle format here. The blog can be accessed for free for a 14-day trial period, and will incur a 99 cents per month fee thereafter. While I will continue to offer valuable and hopefully entertaining content on my blog for free, this will be a convenient feature for any readers who prefer to receive updates on their E-Reader.
I would sincerely appreciate a review on Amazon.com from anyone who has benefited from my blog over the years. There is a little blurb that reads "Be the first to review this item" just underneath the subtitle. You don't have to subscribe to the Kindle blog to leave one, but you will need to sign in with your Amazon account and verify that you are at least 13 years of age.
My girlfriend and I bought each other Kindles for Christmas, and so far I must admit that I have been amazed. I resisted the idea of purchasing an E-Reader for years, but I finally caved, partly to see what I am up against as an online bookseller. The most obvious benefit of the Kindle for me is storage. I tend to bring a stack of books along with me when I travel, and packing this slim device instead of six hardbacks will clear up more space for me to...pick up six more hardbacks on the road...hmmm.
I have found that it is also a nice supplement to my morning coffee routine, and can check updates of some of my favorite blogs (Seth Godin
, How to Find Free Books for Kindle) after reading the paper. I am still a novice in my E-Readership career, and am a bit curious as to how my brain will handle the information overload. I have noticed that, just like using a computer, my attention span is much shorter with the Kindle than it would be with an actual book. Instead of devouring a novel on the flight home from New Orleans, I found myself playing a free word game called Shuffled Row after each chapter.
Thankfully, the screen and lack of glare is much easier on the eyes than that of a computer.I have yet to tackle my free copy of the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
and am only 2% of the way through Genesis, but I have been enjoying Timothy Ferriss' new book, The 4-Hour Body
, although it seems like the type of book which is not as enjoyable in digital format, as there is quite a bit of page turning and cross referencing that goes on with this one. Perhaps once I am more familiar with the controls and navigation I will find books like this more digestible.With the New Year upcoming, I vow to reread Sven Birkerts The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
and report back to you on how this relates to the Kindle, as well as the Google Books project. I found it interesting that this was one of the more recent and popular titles which was unavailable in a digital format to date.Have any other booksellers gone digital? Do any of you refuse to? How about New Years Resolutions related to your bookselling business? I plan to share a few of mine in a forthcoming post.
2 comments:
I can see some applications for e-readers, but can't say I want one. I maybe break down and get an I-pad which has one in it, but I like the physical book too much -- it has addled my brain!
I was in that same boat for a long time Tess. I hope you understand that my love for the physical book has not diminished one bit, and that there are many things E-Readers cannot do, and vice versa. The IPads are great too, my brother got one for Christmas and has loved it.
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