Amazon shuts newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print

Post by frereubu » Fri, Mar 17, 2023, 10:33 PM UTC

vishnugupta wrote: post #210

frereubu wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not the person you're responding to but I'm the same as them, having gone back to physical books. I don't take books with me on errands, I read saved articles on my phone. Going on holiday I make a small selection and just have to live with that restriction. It doesn't feel like a particular problem because I've made the conscious decision to do it. There are trade-offs, but for me they feel worth it. The upsides…

These are more or less exactly my reasons. Last decade I more or less binged on books. I was chasing some useless metrics like number of books read. But COVID induced mass isolation made me take things easy and go slow. Since then I've learned to enjoy the process of reading and I realised physical books enable exactly that. So I don't feel like losing out if I'm not reading when I'm on an errand or I've some free ti…

Post by nottorp » Fri, Mar 17, 2023, 10:55 PM UTC

sohkamyung wrote: post #240

nottorp wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> For subscriptions to SFF magazines, try WeightlessBooks which offers subscription to a number of magazines No Asimov's at first glance. Asimov's do offer a non-amazon electronic subscription through some other web site, but it looks like it's only readable through their app. If I go off Kindle, I might as well go DRM free.

Yes, no Asimovs or Analog on WeightlessBooks, unfortunately. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Ficton is there, though.

Post by jrnichols » Fri, Mar 17, 2023, 11:48 PM UTC

wrycoder wrote: post #180

Ensorceled wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Scanning in that fashion is also far faster, more comfortable and efficient. I used to flip through newspapers rather quickly scanning the headlines and first paragraph and reading more interesting articles in depth. Scanning this way is almost impossible digitally. Also headlines were more useful and articles actually had informative first paragraph instead of just "scroll some more" hooks.

I find that many of the magazines on Apple News+ have innovative navigation techniques that allow me to scan quickly. The throughput is high enough not to be laggy.

Post by radicaldreamer » Sat, Mar 18, 2023, 6:22 AM UTC

michaelt wrote: post #82

radicaldreamer wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kindle in general doesn’t seem to make enough revenue to justify the engineering effort/expense. Its languished as a Bezos passion project and is being killed slowly.

They've released 11 generations of the hardware, I think it might be doing OK.

Post by braunboffel » Sat, Mar 18, 2023, 12:13 PM UTC

danjoredd wrote: post #218

braunboffel wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Amazon, in my opinion, absolutely has control of the ebook market. If they lower prices, everyone else has to lower theirs to keep up. Uhm? Would you like to try explaining that again?

not OP but why would the average person buy a book from example.com for 15 dollars when Amazon sells it for 10? Here or there there might be a person who pays the extra 5 out of principle, but most people are going to buy from Amazon because that's what they know, and its cheaper anyway. In order to make money, other stores are going to need to match Amazon or beat it just to enter the public consciousness a little b…