Los Angeles Times | 
| Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Category: Digital Text Feeds
Buy New: $9.99
Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 230
Format: Newspaper Subscription
Media: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B0016LG51A
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Product Description
The Los Angeles Times is the largest metropolitan daily newspaper in the country, with a daily readership of 2.2 million and 3.2 million on Sunday, and a combined print and interactive weekly audience of 4.8 million. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times, has been covering Southern California for over 126 years and is part of Tribune Company, one of the country's leading media companies with businesses in publishing, the Internet and broadcasting. The Kindle Edition of Los Angeles Times contains articles found in the print edition, but will not include some images and tables. Also, some features such as the crossword puzzle, box scores and classifieds are not currently available. For your convenience, issues are automatically delivered wirelessly to your Kindle so you can read them each morning.
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 No photos August 28, 2008
I've been a happy subscriber to the Kindle NY Times for several months and I looked forward to the LA Times. I was looking forward to canceling my print subscription to the LA Times and save a tree, but as of today (8-27-2008) the Kindle edition of the LA Times has no photos. Granted, photos on the Kindle leave a lot to be desired, but photos add greatly to my experience of the NY Times.
I'll be back to re-sample the LA Times... get working on those photos.
 amazon sucks. you can sign up with one click but they make it all but impossible to cancel. my kindle is going in the trash! August 23, 2008
0 out of 11 found this review helpful
hate la times on kindle but hate amazon and kindle even more. will not support such an unethical company.
 Great Coverage and Writing August 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I live on the East Coast, read both the NY Times and Wash Post on the web, but was disappointed with both their Kindle attempts. Perhaps, their Kindle editions are finalized and published so early (between 4 to 6 am EST) that they can't include many of the stories found on their websites at the time most people start their days. It appears like both are a bit short on articles compared to their print or web editions. The LA Times Kindle edition, however, seems to have more timely headlines for the late morning commute (9 am EST). Also, their writing is solid, and coverage amazing. In addition to the hard news of world conflicts or the housing crisis, they mix in human interest stories like recent ones on the struggles of workaday classical musicians or archaeologists uncovering artifacts from ancient "green" Sahara. Definitely a keeper.
Timely ... August 10, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great newpaper, more than enough newsworthy information, delivered very timely to the Kindle (around 6am PST), however, for me, I find the San Jose Mercury News to provide the same quality news writing, but with fewer words (articles are not novella length) and the SJMN is half the price. If the LA Times were the same price as the SJMN, I would probably stay with the Times. Just a little too pricey.
L.A. Times on Kindle simply revolutionary July 7, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The L.A. Times Whisperneted onto my Kindle today, Independence Day. What a bargain! And I am confident the venerable Founding Fathers would heartily approve. For pennies a day, I now have access to international news on every subject from the arts to the economy to the real state of the nation.
Talk about volume? There are roughly twice as many words in the Sunday edition than in the book I labored over for two years (available on Kindle). Think of that: readers receive at least the equivalent of a book to read each day. Why I could match Jefferson's library at Monticello in less than a year from just this one source.
Did I mention that the reading is relevant? After all, something like one in seven Americans live within an hour's drive of the L.A. Times Building. And Southern California is arguably the revolutionary center of the world in much the same way the Atlantic Colonies were in 1776. Of course, the L.A. Times is internationally recognized (Pulitzer Prize, yeah!) as one of the last real sources of news in a world that values entertainment to the exclusion of information. I'm one of those who believe, as did Ben Franklin, that a citizen has a duty to inform himself through a reliable newspaper.
Now I'm sure not everyone agrees with me that this is the Kindle Edition of the L.A. Times is the premier reading experience. But I have a hard time believing that anyone could read the important and entertaining articles I did today and not be heartily impressed.
I could spend hours a day with my Kindle just reading this newspaper. At a little more than a quarter a day, who could ask for more? (Well, photos, yeah.)
(One week later) Fast and Early Delivery. This is the fourth newspaper I've trialed on Kindle, and the most consistent delivery time. I'm an early riser, and the Times is ready before my coffee every morning so far.
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