Thanks to a chain of links beginning on Twitter, traversing the Washington Post and ending up at a post by MG Siegler at Tech Crunch I discovered first that Amazon now lets blog authors publish to the Kindle and, second, how to do it.

1. Go to kindlepublishing.amazon.com and sign up for an account.
2. You have to create a completely new account — your existing customer or associate accounts won’t work.
3. Submit an online form identifying and describing your blog
4. Amazon does… something… not sure what
5. Your blog is available for subscription on the Kindle.

1. Update Your blog’s Amazon page will look something like this!

The program’s in beta — just a day or two old at this point — and the original links were about a now-fixed bug that let anyone register anyone else’s blog (e.g. you could have registered DailyKos or BoingBoing) and then get any subscription money that might accrue.

As I say that bug’s now fixed — you have to actually be the author of the blog. And since I’m not sure how they’re going to validate I thought it would be a good idea to post this in case they check visually.