Amazon has created a service called ‘Amazon Connect’ that lets authors create a pseudo-blog with the idea being that readers can interact ‘directly’ with their favorite authors. The new service, which was covered in yesterday’s New York Times (reg required), is explained as being ‘one-way communication’ from the authors to the readers, but some savvy authors are already pointing readers to their personal blogs or websites. So far Amazon has 12 authors in the service, but that number will likely expand in the future. Here is Meg Wolitzer’s Amazon blog, one of the writers included in the beta for this service.