Comments on: Newspaper reading on the Kindle: Satisfying and convenient for PublicAffairs Books founder http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/newspaper-reading-on-the-kindle-satisfying-and-convenient-for-publicaffairs-books-founder/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:28:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Julien Couvreur http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/newspaper-reading-on-the-kindle-satisfying-and-convenient-for-publicaffairs-books-founder/comment-page-1/#comment-710228 Julien Couvreur Thu, 07 Feb 2008 02:40:30 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/02/05/newspaper-reading-on-the-kindle-satisfying-and-convenient-for-publicaffairs-books-founder/#comment-710228 How do you explain the Kindle subscription being more expensive than the p-newspaper? That does not make sense to me... How do you explain the Kindle subscription being more expensive than the p-newspaper? That does not make sense to me…

]]> By: Charlcs Wilkes http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/newspaper-reading-on-the-kindle-satisfying-and-convenient-for-publicaffairs-books-founder/comment-page-1/#comment-709001 Charlcs Wilkes Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:53:44 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/02/05/newspaper-reading-on-the-kindle-satisfying-and-convenient-for-publicaffairs-books-founder/#comment-709001 I subscribe to my local newspaper (San Jose Mercury News) and tried the Kindle version, but cancelled before the end of the free period. It was just easier to read the print version, since I'm retired and it comes to my home. But I can sure see the news coming via a Kindle. But a single issue is 75 cents, but only 10 cents to have something downloaded. And the newspaper is free to my website, as are many newspapers on the web. So I wonder if it wouldb't be easy to write a small program which would forward such free newspapers to my Kindle address, and have it put on my Kindle for 10 cents instead of 75, or even a pro-rata of the monthly rate. Since I used Google's gmail, hopefully I can cause it to do the forwarding automatically, without even involving me. If I am able to do that, I'll come back with another post here later. But for a programmer, it should be easy to write such a simple program, and let it do this automatically even if you don't use gmail. Charles Wilkes, San Jose, Calif. I subscribe to my local newspaper (San Jose Mercury News) and tried the Kindle version, but cancelled before the end of the free period. It was just easier to read the print version, since I’m retired and it comes to my home. But I can sure see the news coming via a Kindle.

But a single issue is 75 cents, but only 10 cents to have something downloaded. And the newspaper is free to my website, as are many newspapers on the web. So I wonder if it wouldb’t be easy to write a small program which would forward such free newspapers to my Kindle address, and have it put on my Kindle for 10 cents instead of 75, or even a pro-rata of the monthly rate.

Since I used Google’s gmail, hopefully I can cause it to do the forwarding automatically, without even involving me. If I am able to do that, I’ll come back with another post here later. But for a programmer, it should be easy to write such a simple program, and let it do this automatically even if you don’t use gmail.

Charles Wilkes, San Jose, Calif.

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