Comments on: Amazon Connect program not an author blog hosting experiment

By: anneemer2

anneemer2 — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:03:54 +0000

Thanks so much for your link to Amazon Connect. As a newly-self-published author, I looked on Amazon for the link to create a blog and couldn’t find it. I’m sure it’s there, but it certainly isn’t something that they are promoting much. Perhaps for some of the reasons that you point out.

By: alice m. drobney

alice m. drobney — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:31:46 +0000

I have a self published romantic novel that takes place at the N.J. shore in the 1940’s. A young girl leaves farm life for a more adventurous life at the shore. She lives in a boarding house full of women, gets a job as a waitress, is inexperienced in the advances of a young fisherman, befriends a collie and falls in live with its owner. She finds the meaning of friendship, love and the heartbreak of war.

By: Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

Mary-Ann Tirone Smith — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:14:41 +0000

I’m an author with an Amazon plog. Just wanted you to know that you can post comments and the author can post back. After each, shall we say–riff?, there is a box to click on in order to post. The author’s email address is available, too, if you want to keep things private. I’m enjoying the exchanges a lot.

By: Make You Go Hmm: » Amazon CTO’s naked conversation over blogging value

Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:42:26 +0000

[…] So what can Amazon do for me as a customer and offer something the local Borders can’t? A real author written blog complete with comments (which either the author or Amazon should moderate to keep out the spam and crazies) is one marketing tool. I wrote back in December 2005 that the Amazon Connect program wasn’t a blog author program despite some claims otherwise. Readers can sniff out fake marketing and to this Amazon should try to disconnect not connect. I can see that being a legitimate concern over releasing a true blog program across their website for authors and perhaps these were some of Mr. Vogels underlying concerns. […]

By: Suzette Haden Elgin

Suzette Haden Elgin — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:50:59 +0000

It’s worse than just not working for people using Opera as their browser; I use Internet Explorer 5.0 and Amazon Connect won’t accept that — it has to be 5.5 or higher. I’ve been trying to find out whether the benefits Amazon Connect provides are worth the hassle for authors with browsers that don’t qualify, and so far I haven’t read anything I find compelling.

By: Make You Go Hmm: » HarperCollins experiments with ad-supported non-fiction book online

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 00:49:55 +0000

[…] Publishers need to get with the program now or they will be obsoleted. I think the publisher is still relevant, but not trying to hold onto the print world — technology is changing the relevancy and desirability of print. What they can and should be doing is collectively building some great websites with author-to-reader sticky features. Imagine if publishers provided their authors free blogs along the lines of what Amazon has been experimenting with, but to the next level? I mean including full on podcasting, videoblogging and blogging with unlimited picture storage and even letting the authors host on their own domains. This self-fed and massaged traffic then feeds back to the publisher and enables them to leverage the ad income across all authors. The authors promote the mother ship, the mother ship gives back. Mutually beneficial business with tons of marketing possibilities. […]

By: SmallBizMentor

SmallBizMentor — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:46:01 +0000

Are Amazon’s Author Blogs Worthwhile?

Writers, take note! Amazon is now offering authors their very own blog network. According to an article over at MediaPost, the announcement was made this week and over a thousand authors have already signed up for their blogs. Up…

By: Make You Go Hmm: » Buying that first eBook: Cell by Stephen King

Make You Go Hmm: » Buying that first eBook: Cell by Stephen King — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 05:26:22 +0000

[…] When I first saw Stephen King’s new book Cell it sounded like my kind of horror tale: “There’s a reason Cell Rhymes with Hell” — spooky! […]

By: Das CIO Weblog

Das CIO Weblog — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 08:56:38 +0000

Amazon Connect: Doch keine Weblogs sondern Plogs

Noch in den letzten Tagen des alten Jahres war an verschiedenen Stellen (z.B. bei golem.de oder in der Netzeitung) zu lesen: �Der weltgr��te Online-H�ndler Amazon hat auf seiner US-Website erstmals Autoren-Weblogs online gestellt. Ein Dutzend verschie…

By: Evan Erwin

Evan Erwin — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 15:53:44 +0000

No RSS feed = this will die a terrible, lonely death. Amazon needs to realize that even fans will visit the author page infrequently. Creating a file that is updated when the author updates is just -common sense-.

I hope this is something planned for the future, because right now this service is effectively worthless to me.