The Washington Post Is Now Free On Amazon Kindles
Source:
http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/06/the...mazon-kindles/
@Mod: It's in news forum because, IMO, this is more a news/reading/marketing article than simply a device-specific feature.
Quote:
The Washington Post is now available as a free app on Amazon Kindle Fire tablets. The announcement comes a little more than a year after Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos purchased the the newspaper.
According to a report in Bloomberg Businessweek, the app was developed by a group inside the Post called Project Rainbow. The project, led by Kerry Lauerman, will offer a curated selection of news and photographs. The app is currently free for download now on all larger tablets. As with WaPo’s other digital offerings, subscription rates will eventually kick in. The new Fire tablets will already have the app installed.
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“Reporters need to know that they will be supported, that their colleagues aren’t going to disappear and that they can do their job without being worried all the time about losing it. Optimism, like negativity, can be infectious,” executive editor of the Washington Post, Marty Baron told the New York Times.
There’s already an app for iPhone+iPod Touch, Android and iPad, as well as the mobile web. All of those already offer a pretty robust selection of free select content from the print version of the paper, as well as a subscription format. Digital subscriptions to content on the web start at $14.99.
Kindle offers other major newspaper apps such as USA Today and the New York Times for free on all Kindle Fire tablets.
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E-inkers, breathe deeply. Free only the app for Fires, folks.