USA Today Goes Digital, Free Issue for Kindle Readers
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USA Today is offering its daily newspaper to Kindle readers for a subscription fee. USA Today is the top selling newspaper in the nation and the flagship publication of Gannett. The paper is printed Monday through Friday so the first issue will be December 29, 2008, but a free issue is available to Kindle users tomorrow, December 26, 2008.
Is this one way to survive the doomed economy? In November, USA Today cut 5% of its newsroom.
Via Angela James.
That’s not making sense to me, likely because I don’t have a Kindle.
Why pay a fee to subscribe to a paper that can be read online (legally, even) for free? I wondered that when I saw how much they were charging people to get the paper on the Kindle. Same applies to the NYT. They charge a ridiculous amout.
If anyone is paying for USA Today for Kindle, I’d be curious to know why.
5% staff cut is pretty low for most corporations these days.