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The New York Times |  | Publisher: The New York Times Company
Category: Digital Text Feeds
Buy New: $13.99
as of 11/21/2009 10:19 MST details
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Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  159 reviews
Sales Rank: 54
Format: Newspaper Subscription
Media: Kindle Edition
Subscription Length: 0 Months
ASIN: B000GFK7L6
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Product Description
The New York Times is dedicated to providing news coverage of exceptional depth and breadth, as well as opinion that is thoughtful and stimulating. Widely quoted, and often hotly debated, The New York Times is held by its readers to the highest of standards and continues to be regarded by many as the nation's pre-eminent newspaper. The New York Times has earned an unprecedented 94 Pulitzer Prizes, far more than any other newspaper. A global news staff covers a wide range of interests: from world, national and New York issues to business, culture, science, religion, travel, style, food, sports, health and home. In addition to outside contributors, the editorials page features The New York Times' own team of award-winning columnists: David Brooks, Maureen Dowd, Thomas L. Friedman, Bob Herbert, Nicholas D. Kristof, Paul Krugman, Frank Rich and John Tierney. The Kindle Edition of The New York 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 at 5:00 AM on the weekdays and 5:30 AM on weekends New York City local time.
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Difficult to skim November 18, 2009
LS (Tennessee)
After my two week trial, I have elected to cancel. For my purposes, the NYT.com/Today's Headlines email version is preferable to the Kindle version. It is icing on the cake that the former is free.
The Kindle version has the advantages of a physically more convenient format for reading, not requiring an active internet connection, and a larger selection of articles. Where it falls short for me is in what I will call skimability. The list of articles in each section is represented by a headline followed by a one line subhead which is usually truncated and not a complete sentence, let alone a cogent summary of the subject of the article. It is usually necessary to navigate to the article itself to determine if the subject is of interest.
The Today's Headlines product is sent as an email each day at 2 am. It is a very efficient format to scan for things of interest, more akin to how one interacts with a print version. Each major section heading is followed by 3 or 4 headlines. Each of these is accompanied by a one (complete) sentence description of the content of the article. It is a simple matter to follow the link in the email summary to the full text of the article in the online version. Admittedly, this is a more concise version with fewer articles than the Kindle version and requires an active internet connection. But, it is sufficient to the time I have available for reading it and I spend more time reading and less time searching.
This would seem to be a fixable problem. The Kindle version needs a full sentence summary of each article in the list of articles not a description which is automatically truncated by the system depending on the font size in use.
 Much Better Than Reviews Led Me to Expect November 13, 2009
Kathryn L. Evans (Caroga Lake, New York United States)
I almost did not purchase the NYTs because the reviews were so bad. In fact, at least the front page stories do include pictures and graphics. Also, until I read the New York Times on Kindle, I never realized to what extent the newspaper format slowed me down in reading the paper - all that starting an article on the front pages, than finding the section with the end of the article, getting distracted, looking back at the big page with endless gray columns, small print, and trying to find where you left off, juggling holding the bulky paper, turning pages, while sipping coffee...none of those problems are an issue when holding the ergonomically friendly, light-weight, little Kindle in your palm and changing page screens with your thumb. I find I manage to read so much more of the paper, so much faster. The master menu of NYT Sections, and the sub-menus of articles within each section, including the opening lines, allow me to find the articles I most want to read much faster than I used to, and also allow me to return to an article of special interest to me without tearing the paper apart to find it.
But I agree with the reviewer who suggested that for many people, the option of just buying the paper day by day, 75 cents for the daily paper, might work the best, at least until you find out how much you like it!
 NYT Auto delivery feature - Not as promised November 6, 2009
Tony N (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Kindle's auto delivery feature for the New York Times does not live up to its description, at least not in Brazil. The Times does not arrive to my kindle overnight or in time for my morning coffee, as promised. Unless I decide to have my first coffee in between the hours of 10am and 11Am Sao Paulo time.
Ureliable November 5, 2009
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Even with a full battery there are days when the NYT does not arrive at my Kindle. Yet I am still being charged on my credit card the full amount of the subscription.
 what time do i get today's paper? November 3, 2009
EmanEkaf (Seattle, WA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
i thought the n.y. times was a morning daily. i'm on the west coast. in new york, it's nearly noon. i haven't received today's paper yet. i left wireless on all night, and have been reading other kindle content all morning. is this standard?
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