I noticed the other day that Sylvia Day has a plog up on amazon. uh which yes I bought yesterday, I blame the computer being broke. I need to stay home for like a week or two and just read.

What the fuck is a plog you ask? Well amazon sez:

Your Amazon.com Plog is a personalized web log that appears on your customer home page. Every person’s Plog is different (hence the name) and just like a blog, your Plog is sorted in reverse chronological order. Each post also gives you the opportunity to provide feedback to the sender as to whether you liked the post or not. This feedback loop means your Plog becomes even more relevant and interesting over time. Your Plog will appear if you are logged into our web site and is visible only to you.

Authors with at least one book for sale on Amazon.com are eligible to participate in Amazon Connect. To learn more about the program and to sign up, visit www.amazon.com/connect.

sooooooo

1. Why do we need this?

2. Do we want the author to give feedback on feedback?

3. With author blogs, websites, plogs, checking their stats, oh and WRITING. Where in the hell are they going to get the time?

OR is this to take place of a blog? Does this make it easier on the author? I am not sure why, but I don’t think I like it. I don’t want to see the author hanging at amazon thanking people for buying their book. I don’t want amazon filled with questions about the book, I want to go to their websites for that. I really don’t want to see authors going at it with anon’s about how much their book didn’t suck.

But maybe I am wrong and just need to get use to the change of it?

Jordan Summers blogged about this recently and has some interesting views. Authors should think on PBW’s post because I think it is on the money.