Amazon Shuts Down Newspaper and Magazine Subscriptions
Laura Hazard Owen (via Hacker News):
It doesn’t matter whether they’re for your Kindle or in print — starting this week, Amazon is no longer selling newspaper and magazine subscriptions.
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Instead, Amazon wants publishers to add their content to its $9.99/month digital subscription program, Kindle Unlimited, which includes a bunch of magazines and access to one newspaper that I saw — USA TODAY.
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Anyway, while this all feels very 2011, news publishers in particular should check out some of the comments on last week’s Reddit thread, where customers talk about why they liked reading newspapers on Kindle, and why they’re sorry to lose the subscriptions — and it still has to do with the “satisfying reading experience” Sulzberger talked about more than a decade ago.
Previously:
- Amazon Closing AmazonSmile
- Apple News
- What Publishers Should Know About iOS 9
- The Final Straw for Newsstand
- Kindle Periodical Improvements
- App Store Subscriptions, Revised
