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So Amazon is getting set to announce, later this week, another new Kindle device- this time with a bigger screen, which is meant to make it easier to read newspapers on the device. This is being touted, in some circles, as a way to stave off the decline of newspapers and magazines.
If that’s what they have in mind, this strategy is doomed to fail, for two reasons. One, not enough people have Kindles for it to make any difference. And two, the Kindle’s newspaper interface, at least on its last model, is just plain terrible. It’s hard to navigate, doesn’t easily update, and has absolutely nothing to recommend about it. Especially since, without the subscription fee, it’s significantly easier to read the same content on a smartphone, or on a computer- or even in an actual newspaper.
After reviewing it last month, I’m less of a Kindle skeptic than I used to be, because downloading and reading books on there really is quite easy and enjoyable. But the idea that a Kindle will succeed in saving newspapers where everything else has failed strikes me as fanciful at best and downright insane at worst.
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