Amazon announced a service this week called Amazon Connect that gives authors blog space to post their thoughts. Communication is one-way (no comments allowed) to customers of their books or other members of Amazon Connect. Signup is free for authors. Amazon customers can have a personalized blog (which Amazon calls a “plog”) that culls posts from multiiple author blogs.

This is an interesting way to add more content for users. A few months back, Amazon added a Product Wiki that allowed customers to add content about the purchased product; and now this. Seems like my idea took hold. (Yeah, I’m pretty sure sure the credit is all mine. :) ) More bonus material for the reader is a good thing.

Some authors who already blog are pointing Amazon Blog readers to their own blogs. For example, Tobias S. Buckell.

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