I Bought My First Newspaper Subscription in 43 Years…. On Amazon Kindle 2 -

Allen Harkleroad subscribes to his first newspaper in his 43-year-old life. I am currently subscribing to the New York Times and I am looking forward to the News and Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina) being made available through the Kindle. Perhaps this may represent a turning point for newspapers: quick, clean, easily accessible content that people are willing to pay for.

I Bought My First Newspaper Subscription in 43 Years…. On Amazon Kindle 2 -: I’ve never bought a newspaper or magazine subscription for several reasons. Namely they are bulky and take up too much space lying around the house or office. Many of today’s newspapers leave your fingers dirty from the cheap vegetable ink that is commonly used in newspapers. That and too many trees are wasted printing something that will be thrown away in a couple of day.

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I went back to Amazon and browsed the available newspapers and magazines and for starters bought one issue of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and a single issue Reader’s Digest so I could get a feel for how the Kindle displayed newspapers and magazines. After reading each, I had no reservations about purchasing a subscription to both. I am now contemplating subscribing to a couple more magazine and newspapers and the kindle makes offline reading so easy and comfortable.

But be sure to notice his caveat at the end where he advises newspapers to not come up with their own devices.