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I want to belatedly THANK my first Kindle `subscriber' to this blog - WOW - yes, folks will pay for the convenience of UDCC on their Kindle. I did update 294 times last year and am on pace for about the same number - at that price it's like 4 cents an update. MY blog on Kindle is simply called UFO Countdown Clock, BTW - you can find a link on this page.
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I also want to thank the recent purchasers of my books and of books from amazon recently - books such as these below:
my favorite book title my latest ufo book (2013) and best selling book ufo book last month
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But, the clouds are gathering at the horizon.
I wanted Clockers to be aware that I am probably going to be raiding the great content on this website that is still free (meaning most posts after 2010) to go into more of my UFO books on Kindle - I also have to admit that the thought has come into my mind to take UDCC simply private and let distribution be via Kindle paid subscription (which immediately put it in the top 800 science blogs in the world) - I think this is going to be the manner in which many good content (small readership) blogs go - often due to lack of involvement by overall readership. You know, keeping the winners who understand blogging and writing and thinking and letting all the `surfers' simply go elsewhere.) But, we'll both see (readers and myself) - but thought you deserved a warning if you come to UDCC and see it is private. You can request to be included of course - I think at that point by some contact method. My e-mail is in the sidebar. BTW, at least one other three year old UFO blog (more work intensive than UDCC) who I've featured before is looking for 4 bucks a month from `users' to continue (FREE signed up `users' like I am) its very existence.
Seriously. And, seriously, folks need to be thoughtful in their surfing of original content blogs if they have VALUE to them. I think the days of going to a `cherished' blogsite (you feel privileged to have found it as a content source of opinion) are numbered - as most bloggers wear out (and to find the bubbling forth new ones is hard) if undervalued - and indeed it is only if things HAVE VALUE (in the broad sense of the word), that they are useful to you (oneself). So, paying for something you like and enjoy should be considered normal - and is - and is coming to blogging IMO. We'll both see.
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Now, I'm just going with these thoughts today (oh, is that called real blogging?) -- You see, from a bloggers standpoint, if you PAY for my opinions and writings, I know you value them. 99 cents a month is not too much to know a particular persons content within a specific niche IMO. (And remember, the blogger is getting 35 and Amazon 64 cents out of this 99 cents.) But, if just 10 folks (net) join a month to have the ONLY access to the current and past (non-book) content - the progression soon gets to the real value of the adsense and revenue generated (book amazon and affiliate sales) by the blog for FREE.
I can also see the `advantage' of offering `free manuscripts' of the upcoming books prior to official Amazon release (previous UDCC content being turned into the E-books) to subscribers so that they don't lose content that they have access to for `free' after being subscribers. In other words, to subscribers, all of my future `books' of UDCC posts would be FREE.
It also would fit the current situation for `UFO Disclosure' -- SINCE UFO DISCLOSURE already happened in the USA in 2011. (See sidebar if you are unaware.) Indeed, as I said above, the name of UDCC on Amazon Kindle Blogs is UFO Countdown Clock (the word disclosure removed) - it might fit the current situation better - don't you think?
For those without a Kindle device - slowly my best content will become E-books and you can `catch up' in that manner slightly after the fact (remember, you don't need own a Kindle to download Kindle books to a reading device or a laptop). Indeed, I'm very seriously considering taking all my `content quality' posts of 2012 (the verbal opinion ones) and putting them in another Kindle book of some length and substance. --- What do you think, is it a business plan worth letting play out?
Yet another reason to take it private is that the Google Bot is constantly being foiled already by looking for the PREVIOUS blog content that is already part of my book contents. And that will only get worse as I convert more of the content. And, as other content writers wake up - I think this will be reasonable judgement as to the value of their writings/opinions. (To not simply be free.)
Oh, so I dug deeper and this is how Blogger does it evidently:
Your blog is open to all readers by default.
Your blog is restricted so that only blog authors can read it.
Other visitors to this blog will not be able to read any posts; instead they will get a message stating that this is a private blog.
Other visitors to this blog will not be able to read any posts; instead they will get a message stating that this is a private blog.
You can restrict your blog to only readers you choose. However, these readers will need to log in before reading your blog, adding an extra step.
We'll save your readers list for you, so you can switch back at any time.
We'll save your readers list for you, so you can switch back at any time.
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I'm not sure if `readers' are those who have marked the blog as a favorite or are part of the RSS readers or are email addresses that I add to a box below the above form. Wonderful.
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Remember too that you'd have FREE access via `subscribing' for 14 days to the website - so, you'd have the way of getting on the private mailing list by sending me your e-mail or however they do the above. (The `subscribing' would be bringing you the `private' blog - if you get my drift. In other words, UDCC would `exist' and `exist' for `FREE' - BUT - ONLY in the mode of `FREE' Subscriber via Kindle.
Yes, the FREE web will always exist to record diary like thoughts of those temporarily `into' a subject matter - but more serious thinker type of writers on the subject matter (especially of smaller traffic blogs) with real content of value - will find a better method then the `results' of FREE blog publishing (adsense and other revenue). Especially when knowing that both of those would STILL be available to `screened' readers! Who may already have been the ONLY ones `buying' anyway.
Serious writers of content deserve serious readers.
Get my drift?
IMO the world of niche blogging is changing. Maybe not immediately - but, I think I've just laid out a plan.
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OR, DO IT BOTH WAYS? PRIVATE BY REQUEST AND KINDLE SUBSCRIBER (AS OPPOSED TO KINDLE SUBSCRIBER ONLY)
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SUBSCRIBE BELOW: (NO CHARGE FOR 14 DAYS AND YOU ARE REMINDED BEFORE THEY CHARGE EACH MONTH IS MY UNDERSTANDING- 99 CENTS A MONTH)