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Weird. I was playing around with downloads last night on my Kindle and went to the Blogs section. Under "Industry Focus" there was an actual category for "Publishing"! With six blogs in it! Thrilled, I clicked on it...to find my own blog there. Yes, this very one. Available for $.99/mo.

Now, that is pretty cool. But I'm a little perturbed that...I DID NOT ALREADY KNOW THIS. Amazon did not contact me, did not explain why they are SELLING access to a blog that is FREE - although, in truth, I know that the dollar-a-month cost is just to recoup the Whispernet access. But the only reason I know this is because I cover the industry. How many other bloggers would find the same thing and question why they're not getting a cut of that (miniscule) revenue?

I find the silence just odd in terms of content-distribution relationships - usually you get some sort of opt-in agreement with distributors of content, even if it's a mass-mailing to you and sixty thousand other bloggers.

Manners, people.
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