My Review on ComputerShopper.com: Your New York Times Subscription May Pay for a Kindle
I just wrote my first review for ComputerShopper.com: Amazon Kindle (Third Generation, 2010 Version). Take a look!
Toward the end, I look to newspaper subscriptions as a good way to rationalize the purchase (in addition to an estimated overall savings of 30 percent on e-book purchases versus paper books).
For example, the savings from subscribing toThe New York Times on the Kindle is large enough to pay for the Kindle itself — with money left over for books:
… if you subscribe to paper newspapers or magazines and would be willing to switch to reading those on a Kindle (and they’re available), the rationalization could be a bit easier. For example, the Kindle edition of The New York Times costs $239.88 per year ($19.99 per month), a savings of about $300 off the paper edition. For The Wall Street Journal, the Kindle edition saves you $183 off the $363 paper subscription. Both ways, Kindle practically pays for itself. (Note: That Times amount assumes a new-subscriber discount, but for the Journal,new subscribers would actually pay less for paper—just $119 for that year.) You might miss the ink on your fingers, but perhaps not the higher cost and the inconvenience of retrieving a wet newspaper from your doorstep in your pajamas. (For the record, the Nook and the iPad can deliver both papers, wirelessly, too.)
Although I read Nook e-books and (via free RSS) newspapers on my Android G1 phone, the rationalization above may move me to buy an e-reader. My paper WSJ subscription recently ran out …
How about you? Does your consumption of books (and periodicals) merit a dedicated device — or would a multipurpose device, such as a smart phone or tablet, be easier to rationalize?
