So a quick thought for all the gadget geeks out there, courtesy of Abe, the
FeedBlitz VP Engineering.
If the Amazon Kindle charges 99c a month for a blog subscription per
USA today, that gets really pricey really quickly. If you want 10 blogs, that's $9.90 a month.
But an email to your Kindle is apparently 10c a shot. So if you subscribe your Kindle to all your blogs using our daily email, it will probably cost 10c a day (for our standard service, where all the blogs are consolidated into a single digest). For 10 subscriptions, then, you'd be out $9.90 per month on the
Kindle's blog plan, but you'd pay just $3 with a daily email update from
FeedBlitz. If you have to have the Kindle, the economics of using email as a blog reading solution are compelling (your exact savings will depend on the # of blogs you subscribe to, how often they're checked, how often they change, and whether they're in the digest or not).
Unless I'm missing something here, you can have many many blogs on Kindle via
FeedBlitz, making it affordable, as along as a single daily update is OK for you. Which makes the
Internet access it offers much more interesting, doesn't it?
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