Now Amazon provides you the facility for publishing your blog or the RSS feed on the Kindle store of Amazon for selling it. Amazon promises to share with you the revenue earned for every time the feed will be subscribed by any kindle user. The facility is made available to all UK and US based bloggers.
The process of publishing your blog on the Amazon Kindle store
Earlier the process of uploading the blog on Kindle store was a little complicated as you had to join with Newstex in order to post your blog on the store.
If the content of your blog is available in several languages for example English, French, Spanish, German or Italian, you simply need to fill the form for creating a new account instead of using your account that already exists on Amazon.com, now the RSS feed are to be added and the blog has to be submitted. Any number of news feeds or blogs can be added to your account.
Once your blog is approved by Amazon it will then be available on Amazon store to all users of Kindle and the associates of Amazon.
A screenshot of size 800x 600 of the home page of your blog will also be needed and a logo or banner of your blog of size 440×50 will also be required. A proper format of the image has to be used as it will be visible on the product page of Amazon.com where customers will be viewing your blog before subscribing to it (PNG 24 bit is recommended by me).
Screenshots of your Kindle Blog
The blogs at Kindle are wirelessly auto-delivered to it and are updated all day. They are capable of being downloaded fully on your kindle so that they can be read even when you are in an offline mode. It is different from RSS reader as only headlines are provided by it, where as kindle Blogs consist of full content along with the images so full text feeds should be submitted by you.
If any kindle device is not available with you for you to be able to test your blogs layout on an e-ink screen, a preview feature is available at Amazon when you are adding a blog. It will show you how the layout of the feed on the screen of Kindle. Following are some screenshots.
Self-Publishing and earning revenue from blogs on Kindle
Setting your blog price is not allowed to you but currently most kindle blogs are available on kindle for a fee of $.99 to $1.99 for monthly subscription and 30% is your share on the revenue earned by them.
Therefore around 30 ¢ per month can be expected by you for every Kindle subscriber. It would seem a very small amount but it will surely widen your contents reach.
Kindle Subscriptions and their payment
30% of the revenue earned from every kindle subscriber will be paid to you by Amazon. EFT will be preferred for making payment for bloggers who are US based and check will be preferred for bloggers residing outside US. For international publishers who will be paid by check (those residing outside America) no fee is associated.