I’ve been writing recently about a number of ways to market your books, and I received an email from one of my readers asking what an RSS feed is.
A lot of people use RSS to subscribe to blogs. Here’s the quick-and-dirty Wikipedia take on it. Instead of having to remember to visit a blog every now and then to see what’s new there (and who can remember?), you can use an RSS reader. It will notify you when there’s a new listing.
Both the Mozilla Firefox browser and the Mozilla Thunderbird mail and news client have RSS tools, as do many other browsers. I use Safari, and the blogs I subscribe to just show up in a blogs folder, looking very much like a mail folder. Each blog is its own subfolder, and the blog article titles show up like email messages.
Try subscribing to blogs that you read, and you’ll both save time and get more information. And then you’ll be … beyond the elements of style!
Tags: blogging, book blogging, book marketing
