Blogging on Amazon.Com

[pbray]

Amazon.com has created a program where authors can post messages to their readers that will be available on the detailed book info pages.

Here's the announcement: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/15700651/102-3390299-4410511.

If you click on "Learn More" link you'll be prompted to send your info in to Amazon.Com and once they confirm you are who you say you are, they'll invite you into the program.

If you take a look at Tobias Buckell's latest title and scroll down you can see an example http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0765312271/.

Any thoughts on whether or not this is a good thing to do?

Edited on 1/10/2006 to add: Now enrolled in the program, verified as the "real" Patricia Bray, and my first post should appear on my book pages in the near future.

Comments

[pbray.livejournal.com]

I remember the original Amazon.com interviews back in the late 1990s. For the longest time I had one up from 1997 when my first book was published, and it was impossible to update it with new info.

I've gone ahead and submitted the request to create the Amazon.com blog. I think I'll mainly use it to point people to my website and to this blog, which is the one I'll be updating.