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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
Excellent Addition To The Kindle!!, July 1, 2008
Fantastic newspaper for the Kindle. It is absolutely great to have the Pulitzer Prize winning LA Times and their excellent articles available for the Kindle. I'm actually amazed it took this long to become available to Kindle subscribers.
Why not 5 stars? No graphics, no pictures, and I would hope for a lower price for an electronic newspaper. I don't think Amazon or the newspapers have thought out the economics of growing this segment of their industry. They are charging too much for a product that is less expensive to make. I still LOVE having the news on my Kindle, but these electronic subscription only SUPPLEMENT receiving the paper version. For families, there is not the traditional family Solomon-esque experience of splitting the morning or weekend paper among family members who all want to read the sports page. So, these subscriptions to the e-version should be discounted for people who actually subscribe to the local papers OR they should provide electronic FAMILY subscriptions.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
Great Coverage and Writing, August 16, 2008
I live on the East Coast, read both the NY Times and Wash Post on the web, but was disappointed with both their Kindle attempts. Perhaps, their Kindle editions are finalized and published so early (between 4 to 6 am EST) that they can't include many of the stories found on their websites at the time most people start their days. It appears like both are a bit short on articles compared to their print or web editions. The LA Times Kindle edition, however, seems to have more timely headlines for the late morning commute (9 am EST). Also, their writing is solid, and coverage amazing. In addition to the hard news of world conflicts or the housing crisis, they mix in human interest stories like recent ones on the struggles of workaday classical musicians or archaeologists uncovering artifacts from ancient "green" Sahara. Definitely a keeper.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
L.A. Times on Kindle simply revolutionary, July 6, 2008
The L.A. Times Whisperneted onto my Kindle today, Independence Day. What a bargain! And I am confident the venerable Founding Fathers would heartily approve. For pennies a day, I now have access to international news on every subject from the arts to the economy to the real state of the nation.
Talk about volume? There are roughly twice as many words in the Sunday edition than in the book I labored over for two years (available on Kindle). Think of that: readers receive at least the equivalent of a book to read each day. Why I could match Jefferson's library at Monticello in less than a year from just this one source.
Did I mention that the reading is relevant? After all, something like one in seven Americans live within an hour's drive of the L.A. Times Building. And Southern California is arguably the revolutionary center of the world in much the same way the Atlantic Colonies were in 1776. Of course, the L.A. Times is internationally recognized (Pulitzer Prize, yeah!) as one of the last real sources of news in a world that values entertainment to the exclusion of information. I'm one of those who believe, as did Ben Franklin, that a citizen has a duty to inform himself through a reliable newspaper.
Now I'm sure not everyone agrees with me that this is the Kindle Edition of the L.A. Times is the premier reading experience. But I have a hard time believing that anyone could read the important and entertaining articles I did today and not be heartily impressed.
I could spend hours a day with my Kindle just reading this newspaper. At a little more than a quarter a day, who could ask for more? (Well, photos, yeah.)
(One week later) Fast and Early Delivery. This is the fourth newspaper I've trialed on Kindle, and the most consistent delivery time. I'm an early riser, and the Times is ready before my coffee every morning so far.
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