Payday today...for at least one account

I know I'm always harping on what used to be... I used to get paid for my blogs and my books on the same day, with the UK blog payments coming a couple of days later.

Now...well, I got my book payment (and a sorry payment it was, I must say) - still waiting on the blog payment which is my major money earner. Two months ago they were extremely late with that payment - presumably because they were busy revamping their system, they never bothered to say - but ever since then any delay makes me nervous that they're screwing with me.

Time Goes By Fast

I just put on a Scrabble tournament yesterday here in Cheyenne - not as successful as I'd hoped. There are 8 people in my club - they showed up, and that was it. Despite the fact that we'd gotten a nice write up in our Wednesday paper - it generated no new people and no new spectators. Very disappointing.

But preparing for the tournament had taken up all my time, and that's why I've been lax here.

Regular posting starts tomorrow.

Has Amazon Finally Gotten Smart With Kindle Blog Prices?

I have a blog, The Kindle Blog Report, in which I review blogs available on the Kindle, as well as occassionally, just on the web.

Typically when you put a blog up for sale on the Kindle, it is priced at $1.99. Then, over a period of time the price is dropped down to .99 cents.

The rhyme or reason behind this stupid pricing policy has always escaped us bloggers (indeed, I still get angry each time I think how Amazon screwed me with my Rush Limbaugh blog. I had over 200 subscribers, at $1.99 per, and was getting new subscribers each day. But one day, about 6-8 months into it, I found that that blog had been decreased in price to 99 cents. I immediately emailed AMazon support and demanded the price on the blog be put back to where it belonged - no dice. "Amazon decides what to charge based on what we think is value to customers."

I didn't bother to pursue the matter - I am 99.9% sure that Amazon has outsourced its tech support to some country where the people are not native English speakers, so its hard to hold a dialog with them, but every time I get my monthly payment, cut in half from what it should be, I just burn.

But back to the point of this post. I reviewed a woman's blog - which was not on the Kindle. I suggested she put it on the Kindle and she did so. Not only had it gone live within about 12 hours or so, but it was already priced at 99 cents!


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I'm back...

Back from vacation, catching up on all my blogs, will post here with decent content shortly!

On travel til Wednesday

I'm visiting elderly relatives in Box Elder, SD who do not have internet.

Will try to sneak out now and again to an internet cafe to post, but more than likely will not be posting until Wedneday.