Kindle Newspapers and Magazines Now Available on Android

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Kindle Newspapers and Magazines Now Available on Android

Advances in smartphone technology have allowed people to read everything from e-mail to romantic novels on their handheld screens. Amazon’s Kindle has been very progressive in developing new e-reader applications for smartphones, with free programs available for iOS, BlackBerry, and Android. Now, kudos to the developers, the Android app also supports newspapers and periodicals, on both a subscription and pay-per-issue basis.

Kindle users can now buy a single issue of a newspaper or magazine, or subscribe to have the periodical of their choice automatically delivered to their Android device. While we hav discussed the use of newspapers on the actual Kindle at our Kindle blog, this is a new development! There are currently about 100 newspapers and periodicals available via Kindle for Android.

Russ Grandinetti, Amazon Kindle’s Vice President, commented that Amazon desired to give customers the ability to download their newspapers and magazines just once, and browse them with any electronic device of their choosing, all while keeping track of the reader’s progress, just as it’s done with Kindle books today. Grandinetti commented further that Kindle for Android was quickly expanding its consumer base and that there would be over 100 newspapers and magazines available for Android users.

Amazon Kindle’s new development is designed to compete with Apple. Several prominent newspapers, such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, have recently introduced iPad applications. The applications are generally free to download, with a subscription required to view an abbreviated version of a newspaper’s full content. In spite of the abbreviated content, the iPad subscriptions can be very expensive – for instance, up to .99 per week for “full” access to the Wall Street Journal (compare to .99 per week for at-home delivery).

Amidst complaints about high prices and cumbersome interfaces, iPad subscriptions have not yet caught on amongst periodical consumers as a viable alternative to the full website subscription, or even to the printed editions. Christian A. Hendricks, Vice President of Interactive Media for McClatchy, who owns The Miami Herald and The Kansas City Star, has stated that his newspapers have not experienced significant demand for subscriptions via the iPad. However, handheld Android phones can offer greater convenience for newspaper browsers on the go. As long as newspapers ensure that an acceptable amount of content is available from the Android app and that the prices are competitive, then the Kindle program will undoubtedly offer a great value and convenience to consumers.

Thus far, feedback has been mostly positive: Although users have reported that downloads may take a long time to complete, especially for graphic-heavy publications, but have said that the applications, once downloaded, worked very well.

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The Kindle Store Over 350000 Books Plus Newspapers Magazines and Blogs

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The Kindle Store Over 350000 Books Plus Newspapers Magazines and Blogs

The Kindle Store: Over 350,000 Books, Plus Newspapers, Magazines, and Blogs

Shop The Kindle Store Right On Your Kindle

You can search and shop the Kindle Store wirelessly right from your Kindle, allowing you to click, buy, and start reading your purchases in 60 seconds. The Kindle Store offers the same great Amazon.com customer experience you’re used to, including customer reviews, personalized recommendations, and low prices. We auto-deliver your selections wirelessly, so the next time you hear about a great book, just search, buy, and read.

For the first time, you can get books delivered wirelessly while you’re traveling internationally. If you are out of wireless coverage, you can download books to your PC or Mac and transfer via USB to your Kindle. Wireless download times can vary based on 3G or EDGE/GPRS coverage, signal strength, and file size. See wireless coverage map for availability.

More Than 350,000 Books

Our vision for Kindle is to have every book ever printed, in every language, available in 60 seconds from anywhere on earth. We have worked with publishers to get the most popular books you want to read. The Kindle Store currently has more than 350,000 titles and we are adding more every day. Whether you prefer biographies, classics, investment guides, thrillers, or sci-fi, thousands of your favorite books are available. The Kindle Store offers 107 of 112 books currently found on the New York Times® Best Seller list. New York Times Best Sellers and most new releases are .99, and you’ll find many books for less. Content availability and pricing vary for customers outside of the U.S. Check your country

Free Book Samples

No need to judge a book by its cover. Kindle lets you download and read the beginning of books for free. Sample a new author or book–if you like what you read, simply buy and download the whole book with 1-Click, right from your Kindle, and continue reading. Sample length will vary by book.

New York Times Best Sellers and most new releases are .99 unless marked otherwise. Some of our most popular titles include:

Travel internationally and still get books in under 60 seconds. Download books wirelessly in over 100 countries around the world. Stay in touch with news from home by having your newspaper and magazine subscriptions delivered wirelessly while you travel. See wireless coverage map for availability.

For U.S. customers traveling abroad, a .99 fee currently applies when downloading books or single issues of periodicals wirelessly from your Archived Items or the Kindle store while traveling internationally. For details on periodicals and personal documents, click here. To avoid any fees, you can always download books, periodicals, and personal documents via your computer and transfer to your Kindle using USB.

Carry Your Library in 10.2 Ounces

Holds Over 1,500 Books

The ultimate travel companion, Kindle weighs 10.2 ounces and holds up to 1,500 books. No longer pick and choose which books fit in your carry-on. You can always have your entire Kindle library with you.

Automatic Library Backup: Re-Download Your Books Wirelessly

Books you purchase from the Kindle Store are backed up online in your Kindle book library at Amazon.com. You can wirelessly re-download books available in your library. This allows you to make room for new titles on your Kindle. We even back up your last page read and annotations. Please see more information about your library content.

Enhanced Reading

Lose Yourself in Your Reading

The most elegant feature of a physical book is that it disappears while you’re reading. Immersed in the author’s world and ideas, you don’t notice a book’s glue, the stitching, or ink. Our top design objective was to make Kindle disappear—just like a physical book—so you can get lost in your reading, not the technology.

Paper-Like Screen

Utilizing the latest in electronic-ink display technology, Kindle provides a crisp black-and-white 6″ screen with the same appearance and readability of printed paper. Sharp and natural with no glare or backlight, reading on Kindle is nothing like reading from a computer screen. Those who see it for the first time always do a double-take. The screen works using ink, just like books and newspapers, but displays the ink particles electronically. And unlike a laptop or smart phone, Kindle never gets warm so you can comfortably read as long as you like.

Read what some of our customers have to say about Kindle’s screen:

“My first impression of Kindle’s screen was: ‘That’s a screen?! It doesn’t look like a screen.’ When I got my own, I had the same impression again. It looks like a book page, only perfect. No grain or pulp.” —Jeremy

“I love how the screen really looks like a page, because I do work at a computer all day, and the last thing I want to look at is another screen.”

—Amy P.

“I found the contrast to be soothing and I was able to read in direct sunlight with no glare.” —M. H.

“I use my Kindle for reading in bed and sitting at my desk. I also did a test read while sitting in full sun and the screen is even more readable.”

—Dallas M

E5 awards Edith Roman magazines’ subscriber files

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E5 Global Media has retained Edith Roman-ePostDirect for management of its subscriber files. Edith Roman had managed lists for publications including The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Adweek, Brandweek, Mediaweek and Backstage when they were owned by Nielsen.

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‘Folio’ and ‘Audience Development’ magazines merge

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Red 7 Media has combined ‘Folio’ and ‘Audience Development’ magazines. ‘Audience Development,’ which had a frequency of 10 issues per year, is now polybagged quarterly along with ‘Folio,’ which is distributed monthly. ‘Audience Development’ was first included in Folio’s January 2010 issue.

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