{"id":30124,"date":"2012-09-07T16:51:09","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T22:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/07\/amazon-offers-serial-novels-for-the-kindle.html"},"modified":"2012-09-07T16:51:09","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T22:51:09","slug":"amazon-offers-serial-novels-for-the-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/07\/amazon-offers-serial-novels-for-the-kindle.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon offers Serial Novels for the Kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting idea &#8212; and something that e-readers particularly allow for.<\/p>\n<p>Though what I&#39;d been hoping for was a way to subscribe to novel <i>series<\/i> automatically &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fi.i.com.com%2Fcnwk.1d%2Fi%2Ftim%2F2012%2F09%2F06%2Ff4c39946-4ef8-440d-b4cf-3873a186f943_220x157.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1023_3-57507647-93\/amazon-delves-into-book-subscriptions-with-kindle-serials\/'>Amazon delves into book subscriptions with Kindle Serials<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAmazon is trying to bring back the once-popular subscription-based book model, offering Kindle owners a way to subscribe to serialized novels. Read this blog post by Josh Lowensohn on Internet &amp; M&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/1bx6Bg9Soaa' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting idea &#8212; and something that e-readers particularly allow for. Though what I&#39;d been hoping for was a way to subscribe to novel series automatically &#8230; Embedded Link Amazon delves into book subscriptions with Kindle Serials Amazon is trying to bring back the once-popular subscription-based book model, offering Kindle owners a way to subscribe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/07\/amazon-offers-serial-novels-for-the-kindle.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amazon offers Serial Novels for the Kindle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17693,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/30\/a-kindle-thought.html","url_meta":{"origin":30124,"position":0},"title":"A Kindle thought","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 30-Jun-10 7:13am","format":false,"excerpt":"There are definitely times (my recent business trip\/vacation) when a Kindle would be handy.\u00a0 But all the practical and pragmatic problems I have with the device and its utilization and DRM still remain. 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