#“Amazon "Send to Kindle" should be built on RSS to replace Google Reader”
I’ve seen a few mentions today of a new “Send to Kindle” button that you can add to your site/blog. It means people can send clips of your web content to their fave e-reader.
It just struck me that Amazon is missing a serious trick with the Kindle here. An RSS-based reader which works on E-ink, Fire, Android and Cloud Reader could be something awesome. Whilst I use some web-clipping services like Pocket, I much prefer to subscribe to sites. Being able to click a Kindle button that I know is also an RSS button would make me very happy indeed.
Now that Google wants to kill RSS in favour of G+ in a classic but doomed Microsoft-style embrace/extend/extinguish, this could be a big opportunity for Amazon to both attract all the old GReader userbase and turn RSS into a mainstream Subscribe Button. Like we all thought RSS would be, back in 2006.
I’d love to have all my RSS feeds synced to my old-school Kindle. It’s ideal for medium-to-long-form content. Give it offline reading capability and I’m sold.
In contrast, I doubt I’ll be adding their current button to any of my blogs unless ShareThis adds it as a default.