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While I don't actually read Newsweek online on the Kindle (I actually get the paper version, gasp!) I do read The New York Times online on the Kindle. The browser is fine for text. The navigation at the New York Times site works pretty well on the Kindle browser. I don't know if it renders "correctly" but it's perfectly useable.
Yes I would bet they eventually charge for web access too. We'll see. I'm fine with being charged for a service that I find usefull. If I don't find it usefull I have the option not to use it.
You're wanting Amazon to offer some kind of software to run on your compter that would aggregate and format news in a Kindle friendly format? I think Mobi has some software (mobireader?) that does something like that but I've not tired it. (Kindle can use non-drm mobi format btw.) I'm pretty sure I saw somebody post that they were doing just this.
Isn't it really Newsweek that is selling the Kindle version? It's not like Amazon steals their free content from their free website, formats it in a Kindle version, and offers it for sale. If they did that would literally be a crime. Amazon is just a store facilitating the sale. Newsweek could sell other electronic version if they wanted (I have no idea if they do or not) or decide not to offer it through Amazon. The point is it's Newsweeks content and call on where and how to sell it or give it for free not Amazons.
Other than it's a cutsey rhyme I'm still not getting why the Kindle is a Swindle. You don't have to buy a single piece of content from Amazon if you don't want to. 90% of the content on mine is from other sources. I don't see how offering the choice of a subscription to those who wish to pay for it is a swindle? It's just a choice.
I feel no better calling the Sony Baloney. I think using either name is rather silly. They are just ereaders. If you like either one and it does things you need at a price that is fair to you then buy it. Otherwise don't. Where is the swindle (or baloney) in that?
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