Boy do I agree with this comment. I tried our local San Jose Mercury News on my new Kindle, but cancelled before the end of the free period. Not a pleasure to read at all. Anyway, I also subscribe to the local print version so this was really just a trial for me. But it also cured me of wanting to read a newspaper on my Kindle.
What worries me about newspapers is the very real possibility that they will just go away -- at least the print versions, except for a few large national ones like the USA Today. My local print version newspaper (SJMN) is getting smaller and smaller, with less and less real news as they have laid off a large percentage of their reporters. Even the adverts are fewer and fewer, but I discard these immediately anyway, so no loss for me there. But the financial loss for the newspapers must really be severe. And I'm sure this is happening everywhere as advertisers are fleeing the newspaper for other outlets.
I guess in the newspaper-less future we face that news will come only by radio (intermixed with mostly advertisements), TV -- ditto for advertisements, and email via the news services. Maybe that 's okay. I do need more time to read really worthwile works on my Kindle anyway.
Charles Wilkes, San Jose, Calif.
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Originally Posted by Sparrow
Some interesting thoughts, but all from the perspective of using the Kindle to read newspapers.
I gave up buying newspapers years ago - I'd never use my ereader to read them. Ereaders give people the option to read much more interesting stuff  . |