May 18th, 2009
Amazon.com opened up their Kindle publishing program to all bloggers. If you prefer to read blogs on your Kindle you can subscribe to SEO Book for the Kindle at Amazon.com.
Publishers get 60 cents per month per subscriber. It is unlikely that we will get enough Kindle subscribers to notice it as an income stream (as we would need about 50,000 Kindle subscribers for it to be a decent revenue stream), but as such distribution opportunities come about on authoritative domains like Amazon.com, they create a great opportunity for filling up branded organic search results with non-negative authoritative pages. And signing up takes less than 5 minutes. 
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April 6th, 2009
Via an email to affiliates, Amazon.com announced they are scaling back their associates program in North America by disallowing direct linking from paid search results:
After careful review of how we are investing our advertising resources, we have made the decision to no longer pay referral fees to Associates who send users to www.amazon.com, www.amazon.ca, or www.endless.com through keyword bidding and other paid search on Google, Yahoo, MSN, and other search engines, and their extended search networks. If you’re not sure if this change affects you, please visit this page for FAQs.
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March 29th, 2009
My wife recently bought me a Kindle 2. Here are some of the things I loved about it
easy to change font sizeeasy to read - Jakob Nielson said it is roughly the same speed as reading a regular booklightweight - 10.2 ounceseasy to travel withsolves my buying too many books and bookshelves problemyou can store notes in it (everything is backed up on Amazon’s servers)You can search against all your books and notes in it (which really turns it into a powerful reference library…makes me want to buy about 3 or 4 of them to store different topics in) . This should be VERY powerful for looking well researched and finding money quotes. Steven Johnson (one of my favorite authors) uses Devonthink when he writes a book. it has an audio/reader version baked init has an Oxford dictionary baked innew books are typically only $9.99 and take less than a minute to downloadit starts off where you last read
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