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Amazon Launches ‘Send to Kindle’ Button For Web Developers and WordPress Blogs

7 points by marcieoum 14y ago

timmillwood 14y ago
Already started to implement this on my blog http://www.millwoodonline.co.uk/blog http://www.millwoodonline.co.uk/blog, works well with schema.org meta data too.
8ig8 14y ago
Great, another button to pollute the UI along with all the social ones. :(
tocomment 14y ago
Does amazon charge the kindle user for this? How does it deliver to your kindle?
- ippisl 14y ago
  Data sent by wifi is free , data sent by cellular isn't.
schlagetown 14y ago
Hmm, not sure how this is any improvement over the product of the same name from Klip.me, which I've been using for the past year. What's more, that product is a browser extension allowing you to send any article from any website to your device. This one requires individual content websites to add a button for every piece of shareable content—seems like a totally backwards way to implement this compared to what already exists! Kind of surprised Amazon's playing catch up so uncreatively...
- IanCal 14y ago
  Amazon have offered a chrome plugin to do this since last year, this is just another way of doing it (one that doesn't need the user to sign up for or install anything).
ippisl 14y ago
What's missing for the kindle is a decent RSS reader. hopefully with the closure of google reader something will come up.
- shrikant 14y ago
  I had responded with a proposal for an RSS reader app way back in the day when they were soliciting applications for SDK access. Never did get any sort of response..
SeanDav 14y ago
I feel a patent coming along for this awesome piece of original thinking... /sarcasm
Xion 14y ago
Well, about time! When I bought a Kindle more than two years ago, one of the first use cases I discovered was finding an article on the web, deciding it's too long to read on a glare screen and wanting to send to the Kindle's browser. What I ended up doing was adding the articles to Pocket (Read It Later at that time) and crafting a small PHP script that turned the RSS feed of Pocket's items-to-read into a simple page with links, suitable for Kindle. I still use Kindle for that sometimes, although I've moved with most of my Web reading to a tablet.

7 points by marcieoum 14y ago

Already started to implement this on my blog http://www.millwoodonline.co.uk/blog http://www.millwoodonline.co.uk/blog, works well with schema.org meta data too.

8ig8 14y ago

Great, another button to pollute the UI along with all the social ones. :(

tocomment 14y ago

Does amazon charge the kindle user for this? How does it deliver to your kindle?

ippisl 14y ago
Data sent by wifi is free , data sent by cellular isn't.

schlagetown 14y ago

Hmm, not sure how this is any improvement over the product of the same name from Klip.me, which I've been using for the past year. What's more, that product is a browser extension allowing you to send any article from any website to your device. This one requires individual content websites to add a button for every piece of shareable content—seems like a totally backwards way to implement this compared to what already exists! Kind of surprised Amazon's playing catch up so uncreatively...

IanCal 14y ago
Amazon have offered a chrome plugin to do this since last year, this is just another way of doing it (one that doesn't need the user to sign up for or install anything).

ippisl 14y ago

What's missing for the kindle is a decent RSS reader. hopefully with the closure of google reader something will come up.

shrikant 14y ago
I had responded with a proposal for an RSS reader app way back in the day when they were soliciting applications for SDK access. Never did get any sort of response..

SeanDav 14y ago

I feel a patent coming along for this awesome piece of original thinking... /sarcasm

Xion 14y ago

Well, about time! When I bought a Kindle more than two years ago, one of the first use cases I discovered was finding an article on the web, deciding it's too long to read on a glare screen and wanting to send to the Kindle's browser. What I ended up doing was adding the articles to Pocket (Read It Later at that time) and crafting a small PHP script that turned the RSS feed of Pocket's items-to-read into a simple page with links, suitable for Kindle. I still use Kindle for that sometimes, although I've moved with most of my Web reading to a tablet.