107 of 109 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
It's good enough, but it could be much better., April 28, 2009
This review is from: Los Angeles Times (Kindle Edition)
I've been using the 14 Day trial Kindle subscription to various newspapers (New York Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and Los Angeles Times). I thought at first that most should be pretty equal in quality but was seriously mistaken.
Living in Los Angeles, I ended up choosing and keeping the Los Angeles Times subscription for it's coverage of California news and Calendar section. However, I noticed a (very) significant difference in quality from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times to the Los Angeles Times. The aforementioned newspapers rarely (almost never) have typos or grammatical symbols in their articles. The articles are nicely formatted and are very consistent. This is not the case with the Los Angeles Times. While the information is pretty much there for the Los Angeles times, it is very evident that there is a lack of quality in the Kindle edition. I want to like it and the articles are very relevant to me as resident of Los Angeles. The Kindle edition is maybe 80% there.
The editors of the LA Times need to put in more work into this Kindle edition to bring it more in line with their competition. Please look at the quality of the New York times and Wall Street Journal and try to match it (no typos, add pictures and charts, no formatting errors, etc). I'm still a subscriber to the Los Angeles Times but I have seriously pondered switching to either the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal simply for the quality of both their articles and the quality of their Kindle editions (the only thing keeping me as an LA Times subscriber is the California section and the Calendar section in the newspaper). Hopefully the editors can put in the required effort to make this a quality publication. I definitely want to like it and would like to see it improve.
July 2, 2009
Did not see the LA Times Kindle edition fix the negatives mentioned above. I have canceled the subscription. Will probably subscribe if the LA Times staff puts the effort into fixing their Kindle edition.
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67 of 69 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Addition To The Kindle!!, July 1, 2008
This review is from: Los Angeles Times (Kindle Edition)
Fantastic newspaper for the Kindle. It is absolutely great to have the Pulitzer Prize winning LA Times and their excellent articles available for the Kindle. I'm actually amazed it took this long to become available to Kindle subscribers.
Why not 5 stars? No graphics, no pictures, and I would hope for a lower price for an electronic newspaper. I don't think Amazon or the newspapers have thought out the economics of growing this segment of their industry. They are charging too much for a product that is less expensive to make. I still LOVE having the news on my Kindle, but these electronic subscription only SUPPLEMENT receiving the paper version. For families, there is not the traditional family Solomon-esque experience of splitting the morning or weekend paper among family members who all want to read the sports page. So, these subscriptions to the e-version should be discounted for people who actually subscribe to the local papers OR they should provide electronic FAMILY subscriptions.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Best Kindle Newspaper for me, February 8, 2009
This review is from: Los Angeles Times (Kindle Edition)
I tried at least 5 newspapers on the Kindle, including New York Times and Washington Post, and settled on the LA Times a few months ago. The layout and navigation work well on the Kindle. It consistently arrives early. The quality of the writing and the breadth of coverage are both excellent. I would have given it a '5' - but the lack of graphics and photos is an obvious negative--especially when reading a story that refers to a graph that you have no way to see. Nevertheless, I highly recommend LA Times, especially to Californians who want substantial and original coverage of national events.
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