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May 24, 2012

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The Oregonian [Kindle Edition]

by The Oregonian
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The Oregonian strives to be the best regional news organization in the United States. If it matters to Oregonians -- from breaking news and business to politics and religion to arts and travel, food and opinion -- it's in The Oregonian. Based in Portland, The Oregonian is the largest news organization in the Pacific Northwest and has been covering news that interests Northwest readers since 1850. Of the seven Pulitzer Prizes it has won, five have come since 1999, including the 2001 award for public service.

The Kindle Edition of The Oregonian contains 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 6:00 AM Portland local time.

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  • Publisher: The Oregonian
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
  • ASIN: B003BVIQKQ
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,846 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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56 of 56 people found the following review helpful
I'm fairly new to eReading. My wife just recently upgraded from a Kindle to a Nook (so she could download library books). I got her hand-me-down Kindle 2.

We've been Oregonian free for a couple of months (the price had gone up and we wanted a break for the summer). I missed reading the Newspaper so I decided to give the Kindle version of Oregonian a chance. The first thing to say is that boy is this convenient. I grab my Kindle as I head out to work and the Oregonian is ready to read.

The digital download does seem fairly close to the actual paper version (minus the advertising). It's easy to navigate and has the photos you'd expect. So if you are interested in reading just the news then you should appreciate the electronic version.

However, what is glaring to me is what's absent. You won't find the following:
* Comics
* Weather
* Individual Stock Information
* Movie listings
* Classifieds
* Ads/Coupons

The absence of comics and weather might be a deal killer for me (that's what I went to first when reading the paper version). I'll give it another week or two before I decide.

Pros:
* Convenience
* It's never late, wet or lost.
* No papers to recycle (which I guess makes this a greener solution)

Cons:
* It's Abridged
* It's harder to share than a newspaper
* It contains a surprising number of formatting errors and typos (mostly missing spaces or unexpected line breaks).

The price is less than advertised home delivery subscription. However, this is the first time I've paid full price for any Oregonian subscription. I always paid the "intro price" because I always cancel the paper when the cost went up (they always call after cancelation to offer the "intro price" again). Also since the Kindle version has no advertising (which means no coupons) it's hard to take advantage of the cost savings that provides (it doesn't take too many $10 off Safeway coupons to pay for a paper). Because of this, I find it hard to justify the Kindle version as being alot less expensive.

Is the Kindle version a good value? Maybe. It just depends on what convenience is worth to you and whether you can live without the missing sections.

Update:
Sept 30, 2010 version has a glitch were all of the articles are truncated - meaning they stop mid sentence long before the article is over. Hopefully this is a one time glitch. So, I'd add to the cons list, that the Oregonian appears to be still working through the technical details of ePublishing.

Update: Jan 2011
I've read the Kindle version of the Oregonian for about 4 months and have decided to cancel my subscription (at least for awhile). It turns out that with the current Oregonian promotions it's cheaper to have the Oregonian delivered. We also found ourselves buying the Sunday paper because of coupons which takes the Kindle version out of the running for being cheaper. But the final straw was that I couldn't put the subscription onto the iPad that is jointly used at our house. I can move books around to different devices (including the iPad), but it appears that newspaper subscriptions can only be sent to a Kindle device.

When the current promotion runs out I may start up the subscription again, but I think the Oregonian should consider allowing the subscription to work on the Kindle software on an iPad and consider a electronic plus Sunday physical delievery subscription option.

Update: Jan 2012
I bought myself a Kindle Fire in November, so I tried the Oregonian again (because Amazon allowed me another 14-day free trial). I definitely like reading the Oregonian much better on the Kindle Fire than the older Kindle. But the Oregonian still has most of the drawbacks that caused me to discontinue it before. It seems like every day there is a garbled article or two. I find that very disappointing since they've had a year or more to work out these funky formatting issues. I also leave for work about 5:30AM and the Oregonian is delivered electronically after that. I don't have Wi-Fi access for my Kindle Fire at work(my Fire refuses to work on Wi-Fi w/a proxy that requires you to login) which means I can't read the Oregonian on my Fire until I get home. My older Kindle had 3G so this wasn't an issue. Granted this isn't an Oregonian issue, but it does mean that I can't read the Oregonian in the morning. Given all of that, I've discontinued the Oregonian again. Personally, I think other local web sites (like KATU) offer similar quality local news free. That makes it hard for me to justify an electronic subscription to the Oregonian.
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Love it, EXCEPT... November 25, 2010
it is often late AND as reported here by another reviewer each issue contains an unacceptably large amount of formatting errors...whole articles that are unreadable. Let me add that during the 30+ years that I lived in Portland I was a huge fan of the Oregonian and wanted to keep up now that I live two states away. Hopefully whoever is in charge of translating the print to ebook material will step up.
2/11/11 update.: problems persist, non- arrivals continue along with garbled articles.
I'm hoping that someone will address these problems.
4/16/11 update: The same problems; non-arrival, late arrival, unreadable text, large amount of missing content (whole sections missing).
Typically on Fridays the arrival is late.
6/26/11 Update: The same problems continue, garbled articles, sections missing.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Has potential, BUT December 28, 2010
By L. Tuff
As someone who has never paid for news, I thought it might be nice to support the local paper and get the news in a friendly format, free from the occassional late or missing paper. Boy was I wrong! I don't know how they managed to mess up a digital edition sourced from their own digital files but they do, EVERY day. The articles are not always complete, some are but the pages are not in order. That is worse than a dog chewing up the paper, at least in that case you can sort it out by the shape of the torn pages. Every single page has at least one spelling error, usually three to six. If not a spelling error there will be jumbled words or sentences. A monkey could do better. Three days ago the paper didn't arrive until after 3 p.m.; don't tell me the paperboy was sick! I despirately want to pay for a good paper, but unless they get their ducks in a row they will go the way of the dinosaur. I'm off to find another local paper to support.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Love the Kindle, but the Oregonian needs work
I stopped my paper Oregonian and subscribed to the Kindle version. I want to cut back on all the paper I use. I love reading periodicals on the Kindle. Read more
Published 25 days ago by P. Carr
Oregonian on Android
Convenient, but as far as I can tell I can read it on my phone (Razr Maxx) but not tablet (Asus Transformer). Seems strange.
Published 1 month ago by Matthew Stave
Improvements made
Hi, This is Therese Bottomly, managing editor at The Oregonian. We've recently worked with our vendor to make significant improvements to The Oregonian on Kindle. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Therese Bottomly
the only game in town
While I seem to get the paper on time, most days (kindle fire and second gen kindle ). the formatting and articles that just end in the middle and you find the remainder somewhere... Read more
Published 3 months ago by W. Jordan
Bundle subscriptions?
It's pretty handy having the Oregonian (long-time subscriber here) on my new Kindle and it works nicely for reading when I'm out and about or at the gym. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Brian J. Edwards
needs a lot of work
Missing names, missing lines, articles don't necessarily match headline, no column titles, things out of order.
They can get the horoscopes in but not obits?
Published 5 months ago by reanna m
Still a long way to go
I read some of the other reviews, and hoped that the problems cited would have been corrected. Unfortunately, there are still lots of typos, incomplete articles, poor formatting. Read more
Published 6 months ago by badvectors
Too many reviews are too harsh!
I think as a whole, the group of reviews against the Oregonian have been somewhat harsh. Yes, the already mentioned sections (comics, weather, stock information, classified,... Read more
Published 7 months ago by PDX Bailey
Article editing is not their forte.
I love a newspaper. I look forward to reading it and sipping the morning coffee. After I purchased a Kindle, I stopped delivery of the Oregonian and started the Electronic version. Read more
Published 9 months ago by RJean
Continued late delivery of daily paper
I've only subscribed for a week and so far the content availibility (delivery) has been extremely late 2 out of the 6 days. Wasn't available until 10:30am PDT one morning. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Paul L. Wegner
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still problems? 1 Jun 30, 2011
where is todays issue? 12/24/2010 5 Jun 30, 2011
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