Los Angeles Times [Kindle Edition]

by Los Angeles Times

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Product Description

The Los Angeles Times is one of the largest metropolitan daily newspaper in the country. This Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper has been covering Southern California for over 126 years and is part of Tribune Company -- one of the country's leading media companies with businesses online, in print and with broadcasting.

The Kindle Edition of Los Angeles Times contains most of the articles found in the print edition, but will not include images, charts, or graphs. 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 starting at 5:00 a.m. Los Angeles local time.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• Publisher: Los Angeles Times
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• ASIN: B0016LG51A
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (57 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #563 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #7 in Kindle Store > Kindle Newspapers > North America > U.S.
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Customer Reviews

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112 of 115 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It's good enough, but it could be much better., April 28, 2009

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Omar Castillo "omarcastz" (Hacienda Heights, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Los Angeles Times (Kindle Edition)

I've been using the 14 Day trial Kindle subscription to various newspapers (New York Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and Los Angeles Times). I thought at first that most should be pretty equal in quality but was seriously mistaken.

Living in Los Angeles, I ended up choosing and keeping the Los Angeles Times subscription for it's coverage of California news and Calendar section. However, I noticed a (very) significant difference in quality from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times to the Los Angeles Times. The aforementioned newspapers rarely (almost never) have typos or grammatical symbols in their articles. The articles are nicely formatted and are very consistent. This is not the case with the Los Angeles Times. While the information is pretty much there for the Los Angeles times, it is very evident that there is a lack of quality in the Kindle edition. I want to like it and the articles are very relevant to me as resident of Los Angeles. The Kindle edition is maybe 80% there.

The editors of the LA Times need to put in more work into this Kindle edition to bring it more in line with their competition. Please look at the quality of the New York times and Wall Street Journal and try to match it (no typos, add pictures and charts, no formatting errors, etc). I'm still a subscriber to the Los Angeles Times but I have seriously pondered switching to either the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal simply for the quality of both their articles and the quality of their Kindle editions (the only thing keeping me as an LA Times subscriber is the California section and the Calendar section in the newspaper). Hopefully the editors can put in the required effort to make this a quality publication. I definitely want to like it and would like to see it improve.

July 2, 2009

Did not see the LA Times Kindle edition fix the negatives mentioned above. I have canceled the subscription. Will probably subscribe if the LA Times staff puts the effort into fixing their Kindle edition.

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best Kindle Newspaper for me, February 8, 2009

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DDW (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Los Angeles Times (Kindle Edition)

I tried at least 5 newspapers on the Kindle, including New York Times and Washington Post, and settled on the LA Times a few months ago. The layout and navigation work well on the Kindle. It consistently arrives early. The quality of the writing and the breadth of coverage are both excellent. I would have given it a '5' - but the lack of graphics and photos is an obvious negative--especially when reading a story that refers to a graph that you have no way to see. Nevertheless, I highly recommend LA Times, especially to Californians who want substantial and original coverage of national events.

25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Did the dog eat part of my paper?, June 8, 2009

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Blaine Greenberg (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Los Angeles Times (Kindle Edition)

It's disappointing enough that there are no pictures or graphics in the electronic version of the L.A. Times. (How exciting it is, for example, to read about art, architecture and home decorating without illustrations.) But when I learn that the "special" sports sections featuring the first two Lakers' NBA Final games aren't downloaded with my subscription, I can't believe it!

Am I supposed to buy a second "hard" copy of the newspaper just to see the Times' coverage of the Lakers? Or should I read the paper for free on the tiny screen of my Apple iPhone? Amazon and Kindle, PLEASE get your act together.