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The Economist is the premier source for the analysis of world business and current affairs, providing authoritative insight and opinion on international news, world politics, business, finance, science and technology, as well as overviews of cultural trends and regular Special reports on industries and countries.

Established in 1843 to campaign against the protectionist corn laws, The Economist remains, in the second half of its second century, true to the liberal principles of its founder. James Wilson, a hat maker from the small Scottish town of Hawick, believed in free trade, internationalism and minimum interference by government, especially in the affairs of the market. The Economist also takes a fiercely independent stance on social issues, from gay marriage to the legalisation of drugs, but its main service to its readers is as a global newspaper: To uncover new ideas from all around the world.

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Language : English
Publication date : December 17, 2020
Date First Available : June 30, 2009
Publisher : The Economist (December 17, 2020)
ASIN : B0027VSU9S
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Peter T. Walling

Political bias

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2019

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Too left wing

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Listless Compass

Subscriptions: Kindle vs Digital vs Print

Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2012

There is a lot of confusion about the subscription benefits between the Kindle vs Digital vs Print offerings that need some serious clarification. The Economist is a fantastic publication so I'm writing this to make sure people aren't giving the magazine undeserved flak, and that people here understand what's going on behind the scenes...

Here is the issue: The Economist, like most other major publications, provides lots of value-added features to subscribers but make limited access to their website free for SEO and ad revenue generating purposes. These subscriber features include: full audio podcasts, full access to apps and commentary, and of course full digital access to the printed content. The digital subscriptions and authentication to access this content happens directly on the Economist's servers, so features served from the Economist's servers are easily matched and delivered to subscribers. AMAZON'S KINDLE DELIVERY INFRASTRUCTURE has a separate user database, separate servers, and a separate transfer protocol that is 100% independent of the Economist.

This wouldn't be a problem, except that AMAZON DOES NOT ALLOW PUBLICATIONS TO AUTHENTICATE AGAINST AMAZON USERS SUBSCRIBING TO THE PUBLICATIONS' OWN PRODUCT! This is technically easy to do by implementing an API for publishers. But without it The Economist has no way of knowing who is subscribing through Amazon, so they cannot offer the digital features to kindle subscribers.

This is how it SHOULD work (listen up Amazon):
1) You pay for the Kindle subscription
2) You then sign up with a free account at Economist.com that doesn't have any subscription rights to it (yet)
3) You add your amazon info to your Economist user account
4) The Economist's server pings the Amazon server, and the Amazon server says "Yup, this guy is definitely a paying subscriber, and he is paid up through XX/XX/XXXX"
5)You get the Kindle subscription every week, plus the ability to log in to the Economist.com with a newly subscriber-enhanced user account.

This doesn't work because Amazon does not allow step 4 in the above example. The Economist would LOVE to give Kindle subscribers digital access, but there's no practical way to do this because Amazon refuses to implement APIs to make Step 4 possible. The lack of digital subscriber features here is 100% AMAZON'S FAULT!

Why the same price? When you sign up as a digital subscriber directly at Economist.com, they get 100% of the $120, but from a Kindle subscription they only receive $84 out of $120 retail price on Amazon (bummer). If they charged less, they'd get only $70 or $60... and last I checked the newspaper industry isn't profitable enough to take deeper and deeper cuts into it's retail price. However, they are economists over there (just a hunch) and as a result I think they chose the CORRECT pricing strategy of $120 for the Kindle edition. Here's why: The Economist takes a 30% haircut and delivers a sub-par product via Amazon (because it doesn't include extra features), so they're subtly encouraging a reasonable person to just subscribe directly with Economist.com to receive the superior product. They make a subscription on kindle available simply to appease those few subscribers who must have a whispersynced copy formatted like the print edition on their Kindle and wouldn't subscribe under any other arrangement. In effect, kindlers are paying the "Amazon's Infrastructure Sucks For Publishers" tax by paying the same but getting less.

Unfortunately, most people's negative reviews blame the publisher for not getting the extra digital features, and interested parties are looking at these comments and writing off The Economist completely, instead of taking exception specifically to the service Amazon pigeon-holes publishers into. Of course The Economist can't really say this on Amazon, but I have no problem laying it down for them. So for my fellow Amazoners, don't just choose between subscribing or passing on the Economist, consider the kindle or (direct) digital option as well, and vote this comment up so others can see it.

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Brian Graber

Don't use this subscription service

Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2017

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The Economist is a great magazine. This subscription service is terrible. They processed my renewal too early and I started receiving two copies of the magazine each week. When I notified them, they said they fixed it. Then I didn't receive any magazines at all. Go straight to The Economist to subscribe. This service isn't worth it.

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David AB

Left wing political propaganda

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2019

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It used to be that to survive in the business world you needed to read this magazine. No mere. Just political propaganda, and no longer impartial

137 people found this helpful

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Read&Sell

Good Luck finding a link to actually cancel it

Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2018

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Pain in the ass to read this on a Kindle - and if signed for 30 day free trial. Good Luck finding a link to actually cancel it.

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Joe Y.

AN INTELLIGENT VIEW OF WORLD NEWS

Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2018

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I've been subscribing to The Economist for over ten years. I get an electronic copy for reading on my iPad. The publication has a wide range of topics -- from politics, to economic, current trends, technology and the arts. It is sourced in Great Britain, though it publishes a USA explicit edition. It tends to be socially liberal, but fiscally conservative. It goes into much more depth that the snippets that comprise most domestic news periodicals. It also give you an international perspective on the issues. What's more...it's intelligent and insightful.

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H. Joplin

Feeds your brain

Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2018

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You wouldn't think that a weekly news magazine would be useful anymore, but The Economist is more important that ever. In a world of 5-second sound bytes and pithy click-bait headlines, this magazine provides the kind of in-depth news and analysis you really can't get from mainstream news sources.

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H. Bareiss

You can't do better!

Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2017

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Ironic, the best news coverage of the U.S. (and the world) comes out of England. This is by far the best news magazine in the world.. It's not a newspaper. It gives in-depth reporting not just of the major news events but also of many things you never knew you needed to know. Their research is thorough and unbiased. It is conservative (I'm not) but it is thoughtful, their values are rock-solid, strongly democratic. Their editorial policy is guided by these values. They are willing to admit error as the case arises. I can't think of a better source of American news.
It's expensive but more than worth it.

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