Beware of the Blog is now available on Amazon's Kindle. You can subscribe to it by going to this page though Amazon will charge you $1.99 for the subscription.
We would love to offer it for free but Amazon currently doesn't allow that as an option. The station gets 30% of the subscription fee which I suppose is still a better deal than being signed to a major label but much worse than the rumored split itunes gives for a song sold through itunes (on a .99 cent track Apple supposedly keeps .34 cents and gives the content provider .55 cents). But nobody here wants to hear about the marginal costs of digital distribution, right? So subscribe away...
Now if they could only figure out how to make the mp3s and videos work...
While I appreciate your desire to expand into new media, I am left gobsmacked with an ornate gothic lettered WTF floating above my forehead....
Far better to just put a "donate" button on the blog header and be done with it, yes? Or move the current donate thingy to the top of the page where you can see it??? Why on earth would I want to pay Amazon for a gelded version of this blog?
Posted by: K. | May 15, 2009 at 01:36 PM
Sorry to hear you've decided to become a subscription-only blog, and that you're unable to offer Beware of the Blog for "free". It hasn't been "free" for me in past. I've supported 'FMU with pledges because of all of the nifty things you've posted in/on Beware of the Blog, and I'm sure I'm not alone in this. But I don't plan to pay Amazon to access you going forward, and so suppose I'll have to do without. Do appreciate the past years, though. Thanks.
Posted by: Peter | May 15, 2009 at 05:56 PM
Better yet, a Beware of the Blog twitter stream...
Posted by: K. | May 16, 2009 at 01:52 AM
Peter didn't get great scores on his reading comprehension tests in school.
Posted by: Goyim in the AM | May 16, 2009 at 02:20 AM
this must be a joke i don't get.
Posted by: Daivid | May 16, 2009 at 11:34 AM
This is the first step into a very deep hell.
Posted by: Ron D | May 17, 2009 at 03:20 PM
Different people like to consume their media different ways... some people even like their zunes, go figure. >IF< you have a kindle and you like to consume all your blogs offline (on a plane or at the beach or wherever) then this is something that might be of interest to you.
The fact that the blog is now available on a new decive doesnt affect your ability to read it on your computer as you've always done.
Posted by: d | May 18, 2009 at 10:19 AM
Hear Hear, d!
Peter seems to just have been waiting for any change at all at WFMU (or was it WMFU?) in order to click send on his "unsubscribe" manifesto.
Take a chill pill, and just wait for Amazon to change their policy. They have to or they will shortly go out of business.
Who would actually pay for this particular blog without the A/V (and in black and grey) anyway? The links, videos and music are usually what makes this blog great.
Posted by: Mark in Helsinki | May 20, 2009 at 07:49 AM