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Kindle and Website question

by Jesse MindfulMoney
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Say I have a website dedicated to a certain subject that has enough blog posts to make a book out of and put it on kindle. Would it be good practice to still have the website up which is pretty much all the same content as the 10,000 ish word book when the book is live on kindle?
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  • Profile picture of the author selfdisciplineacademy
    Yes, of course.

    Keep the website live..

    The more places you can have your content, the bigger the influence you can create.

    Keep both live, and turning blog posts, into a e-book is a great idea.
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  • Profile picture of the author fpforum
    Are you going to be charging anything for the kindle book? If so, you should remove the website content or block it so only those paying can access it (they would have 2 methods of accessing/reading the content they pay for).. If you're planning to give it away for free then I'd just leave it up there and open to the public.
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  • Profile picture of the author localmarketerguy
    Keep them both, even if you are charging for the Kindle. Two different audiences, two different ways to access your content.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jesse MindfulMoney
    i feel like i have heard that kindle does not allow content that is free on the internet to paid before on kindle

    can anyone touch on this
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    • Profile picture of the author rjohnsen
      Amazon has a "regular" Kindle publishing plan and one called "KDP Select". KDP Select has benefits that the regular program doesn't. See their Website https://kdp-eu.amazon.com/agreement?...language=en_US
      for details.

      According to Amazon, when you include a Digital Book in KDP Select, you give them the exclusive right to sell and distribute your Digital Book in digital format while your book is in KDP Select. During this period of exclusivity, you cannot sell or distribute, or give anyone else the right to sell or distribute, your Digital Book (or a book that is substantially similar), in digital format in any territory where you have rights.

      They don't specifically say the content can't be on a Website, but they do employ smart algorithms that can find duplicated content and possibly reject your book in turn.
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      • Profile picture of the author Michael Shook
        You could rewrite your blog posts when you create your book. That way you can have similar content in your book and on your site.

        If you are just looking for a way to copy and paste your blog articles into another format to sell, Kindle is probably not the best way to do that.
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        • Profile picture of the author Social Media Ava
          J.A. Konrath did exactly this with his blog. His book is still for sale on Amazon and did quite well a few years back. I believe the book is free if I recall...let me check...nope $2.99 - http://amzn.to/1wIiY20

          Anyway...that is basically his blog put into a book.

          That being said, I've run into some recent issues with my KDP account and things that are readily available on the Internet. First, I ran into some trouble with ONE recipe in a cookbook. Just to clarify...the cookbook was NOT a copy and paste job.

          Then, today, I got an email on a book I'm trying to publish which had a couple items in it that are available on the Internet. One of them was a list a few pages long of the contents of some boxes from the CIA archive. The second was about 6 pages of witness testimony from a government hearing in 1995. Both of the items are public domain resources.

          KDP DOES NOT CARE. All it takes is one complaint and your account is flagged. After that, publishing books gets harder. At the moment, my account is still active, but there's no guarantee that the odds will be in my favor and that it will stay that way even though I haven't violated any copyright.

          Even though I've seen countless books no different from the ones I produce, it doesn't matter. That will not a valid argument make when you account is terminated. Don't play.
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