San Francisco Chronicle [Kindle Edition]

by San Francisco Chronicle

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

This Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper is the 14th largest in the country, with a daily circulation of 375,000 in the Bay Area alone. It provides comprehensive coverage of local, regional and international news, entertainment and sports, and is one of the only papers in the United States with a regular column devoted to the architecture industry.

The Kindle Edition of The San Francisco Chronicle contains most articles found in the print edition, but will not include some images and tables. 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 AM San Francisco local time.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• Publisher: San Francisco Chronicle
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• ASIN: B000P1XIS0
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (48 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #651 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #9 in Kindle Store > Kindle Newspapers > North America > U.S.
• Your name, billing address and order information will be shared with the publisher.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

59 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If you haven't tried it recently, you haven't really tried it, February 17, 2010

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Steve Waters "SRW" (Angwin, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: San Francisco Chronicle (Kindle Edition)

Like many others, I tried a subscription to the Chronicle a year ago and cancelled during the 14-day free period. This past November, however, I decided to cancel my regular paper and started trying Kindle versions of several papers from across the country (Las Vegas, Seattle, Sacramento, San Jose, and back to San Francisco). The Chronicle is by far the best of these papers and is available at the lowest price. In addition, it had noticeably improved over what I tried a year ago -- nice pictures to accompany selected articles, summaries of all major sporting events, etc. Further, it has always been waiting on my Kindle when I have breakfast shortly after 6:00. Clearly the complaints about late delivery are out of date.

I should note that 4 stars is the highest rating I can give any Kindle version of newspapers as long as they fail to include comics, local weather, local TV listings, etc. The Chronicle already seems to include more of its content on the Kindle than any other paper (especially the Sunday edition), but not enough for the elusive fifth star.

135 of 154 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not Worth It, February 1, 2008

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Iris (Berkeley) - See all my reviews

This review is from: San Francisco Chronicle (Kindle Edition)

I canceled during the freebie period for several reasons. First, delivery was late four times in eight days. I want the morning newspaper when I get out of bed, not at noon. Worse, the electronic version does not have things like the weather page or movie listings or most any of the other reference materials you want from a daily paper. Horrors: the electronic edition doesn't give you the Pink Section. Why buy the Chron if you don't get the Pink Section? I had hoped to give up my newsprint subscription, but the electronic version is no substitute for the real thing. It isn't worth it.

71 of 80 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars back to the paper edition, February 18, 2008

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Charles Weaver - See all my reviews
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This review is from: San Francisco Chronicle (Kindle Edition)

I am a long time Chronicle subscriber but at this time of the year I go to work very early and the carrier never delivers before I leave home. I was hoping the Kindle edition would enable me to read the paper when I got to work. Unfortunately, the Kindle edition was often later than the paper edition, once several hours later. The Kindle edition also lacked many of the features that I read the daily paper for: comics, sports tv listings and many other articles that I like to scan. Maybe if I'm traveling out of town I might think of ordering a single copy but a daily subscription is out of the question for now.