This blog available via Amazon’s Kindle (and Kindle 2)
Happy news! LibrarianInBlack.net is now available in syndicated format on the Amazon Kindle (and the brand spanking new Amazon Kindle 2). A company called Newstex syndicates a number of blogs in different subject areas, including several librarian blogs. The content also goes into databases provided by companies like Lexis Nexis and EBSCO. It makes me happy to have my content out there in other formats, if you will, and the teensy tiny royalty checks aren't too bad either. Last year I made something like $55.
If you haven't taken a look at the Kindle 2, it's worth a glance. It's still Digital Rights Management-laden, but it does have several new features like a crisper display, more storage space, 3G wireless, a new slim 1/3" thick design, longer battery life, a text-to-speech feature where Kindle will read books, periodicals, and blogs (even mine!) out loud to you.
So…long live the Kindle 2 and long live syndication in all its various glory.
February 23rd, 2009 at 6:33 pm
the Kindle 2 screen was designed especially well, it’s as easy on the eyes as regular paper
March 7th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Congratulations on being Kindled! The Kindle app for iPhone, just released this week, is pretty good too. Unfortunately, at this point it can only do books, not blogs, newspapers, magazines, etc.