Writing about blogs on a blog

I haven't been writing this blog for very long and haven't had my Kindle very long so what better time to publish this young blog on my young Kindle.

I am sure everyone (at least those of you who read this blog) are thinking I am very premature (or something not so politically correct) in doing this, and from an audience building perspective that would be correct.

However part of the purpose of this blog is try out new technology and then write about how it goes. Given the budget for this blog doing something that might actually make money vs. cost money is always a good thing.

Now I know there will not be much money coming in from this effort, but that is not the point. Helping others looking to do this type of publishing is what I am after so I am willing to work through this process and collect what I can.

At this point I have setup my account on the Kindle Publishing Site to allow the money to start flowing in from all of folks that not only want to read my blog but also are willing to pay the price that Amazon will set for it (which I am sure will be the minimum $.99).

I did not spend a lot of time with the graphical options Amazon allows as part of the publishing process, but I will come back to that when I need to bump my sales up to hit my next goal.

For the next 48-72 hours I will be in "Pending Approval" status, which unfortunately means you will not be able to jump onto your Kindle right after reading this and start downloading my blog until I get approval, but patience is important in these things (or so I am told) and I will be reporting back as soon as my blog is available for everyone to start downloading.

While I am interested in working through this, I am also interested in how I and others will deal with blogs that most likely are available free on the web, available as RSS feeds for your favorite RSS reader or web site (like iGoogle), dripping out to you via Twitter and maybe even posted to a Facebook page (still working on that one).

While $.99 is not a lot of money (and I would see only a small portion of that amount), it is still more than free and so it will be fun to watch my Kindle revenues take off and see how many people will be willing to pay for the fun and convenience of reading this blog on a Kindle.

Since this blog post is about blogging, one good thing about talking about my Kindle publishing experience over multiple posts is it gives me something to write about for another day, which is important as I have now committed to Amazon that my blog will be updated daily :)