"Amazon calls it quits on newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print." Nieman Journalism Lab. If you like reading news sites on Kindle, here’s a hack to keep you going. And I was hoping to upgrade soon… Kindle probably just lost a customer. I’ll switch brands to whatever I can get NYT on, or I’ll just skip the Kindle entirely. I was mad enough about dropping support for 3G but this might be the end of my relationship with Kindle. I subscribe to the paper edition on the weekends but I actually prefer the Kindle edition in a lot of ways because it’s ad-free and easy to navigate. During the summer, I wake up every day and sit on my deck and read the NYT while I drink a cup of coffee. One of my fondest memories is on a trip to Greece, staying in a hotel on the side of a cliff, and barely getting enough 3G signal to download the Sunday Edition. I have been a NYT subscriber on the Kindle for so many years…more than 10. At this point, i have been only using my kindle to read newspapers and magazines (usually use the app for books). I’ve subscribed to many newspapers and magazines via my kindle for many years and prefer its layout to most crappy apps.
Much easier on the eyes than a phone/tablet, better battery life, and things just worked (some of the apps reload and you lose your place between sessions). Loved having a few magazines and newspapers on my Kindle.
Woke up to the email and I’m pretty pissed. The New York Times – Daily Edition for Kindle This mirrors the mess that streaming television has become, fragmented into many different providers with their own payment schedules, subscriptions costs, log-in credentials, Terms of Service, etc. It will be a hassle to manage the subscriptions separately now, for each publisher, via their websites. I currently subscribe via Kindle Newsstand to the publications below. These made it easy to skim, particularly in large issues of a pub like the daily New York Times… In addition to the sheer legibility/readability of the Kindle screen display, I liked the Kindle editions for the Table of Contents feature and other navigational aids. I had only recently discovered that I actually enjoy reading my local newspaper when it’s on the Kindle as opposed to the paper’s poorly designed website and frequently broken app. Want more? Subscribe to our newsletter here and have Nieman Lab’s daily look at the changing world of digital journalism sent straight to your inbox.Īnyway, while this all feels very 2011, news publishers in particular should check out some of the comments on last week’s Reddit thread, where customers talk about why they liked reading newspapers on Kindle, and why they’re sorry to lose the subscriptions - and it still has to do with the “satisfying reading experience” Sulzberger talked about more than a decade ago.
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