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The Wall Street Journal | 
 enlarge | Publisher: Wall Street Journal
Category: Digital Text Feeds
Buy New: $9.99
Rating:  40 reviews
Sales Rank: 46
Format: Newspaper Subscription
Media: Kindle Edition
Subscription Length: 0 Months
ASIN: B000FDJ0FS
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Product Description
Few newspapers enjoy the prestige and authority of The Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal is where America starts its business day. This daily paper publishes the latest in news from the business and finance world. Additionally, it strives to connect current domestic and international news events to business fluctuations and market changes. It also seeks to inform the educated reader about pressing economic changes and evolution. But the Journal covers more than just business. Its weekend edition covers the activities and interests that readers are most passionate about: travel, art, collecting, fashion, wine, sports and entertainment. Notable columnists include James Taranto, Bret Stephens, Homan W. Jenkins, Jr., Daniel Henninger and Mary O'Grady.P The Kindle Edition of The Wall Street Journal contains articles found in the print edition, but will not include tables and stock quotes. For your convenience, issues are automatically delivered wirelessly to your Kindle so you can read them each morning. Please note that The Wall Street Journal publishes only Monday through Saturday.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 35 more reviews...
 Nov 2008 format change not good = 4 stars now not 5 November 28, 2008
Catherine Michael (Sacramento CA USA)
The word on the street was that the new WSJ owner would ruin it, and now it seems that the Kindle edition (which had its own problems already, including the price) has been hit with a format change that is a huge downgrade in usability and convenience. br / br /One big formatting challenge for formatting Kindle editions is that unlike a paper book or periodical, the reader can't readily flip back and forth (sometimes I wish I had two Kindles side by side). The best solution so far is to make sure that there are sufficient hyperlinks for notes, table of contents and anything else one might want to temporarily refer to. The separate Article List and Section Lists can do a pretty good job of this if implemented intelligently. br / br /The WSJ "Whats News" listings used to be on Kindle as a separate section, with its own article list that included the first line of an article and each article was hyperlinked. There were duplicate listings of articles under the various section headings, but so what? You could easily find what interested you to read first. br / br /Now the "What's News" listings are all under "Page One", with the articles listed in a hard to read series as a single paragraph (a bulleted list would at least be some improvement), with no hyperlinks for the individual articles. br / br /Then THAT Page One "paragraph" is hyperlinked to where you finally get the original individual article hyperlinks from a headline cum first line listing. This means more clicking, more levels to find what you want. A very counter productive time consuming change. An "improvement" it's not. br / br /Bad idea No. 2: The reduction of sections listed in the Kindle "Section List" - my preferred default state rather than the article list - no longer includes a "Letters and Opinion" Section. Instead the letters and Editorials and Op-Eds are just at the end of the huge continuous "Page One" section listing, so you have to page through the whole Page One list to get to the editorial content. br / br /This change is another time-consuming annoyance that also suggests that the new regime at the WSJ doen't understand the basic concept of journalism that "news/facts/reportage" and "editorial/opinon" content are not the same thing. The old system made it clear what was what, which gave the reader some confidence that the owners, editors and reporters also were clear on the distinction. Bad move, WSJ. br / br /I also second the complaints about the cost: they could at least throw in the web subscription for the price of the Kindle edition, although I do use the WSJ mobile web version with the Kindle browser to get the market data page. br / br /Along with the NYTimes, the WSJ is still one of the better Kindle periodical implementations, but it could have been improved; instead we got the opposite.
 bad form factor for rapid reading November 21, 2008
Sharon Stelzner
the form factor for newspapers is wrong. i need to be able to quickly scan for news items that i want to read. scan those articles. only read what i need andgo back to scanning. kindle is great for books but not for newspapers.
 Somewhat useful but prefer the entire journal November 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I would like more content. The articles are useful but I need the quotes and charts, also. I prefer the entire paper.
Can't share between two Kindles - Not like reading the paper with someone October 1, 2008
Bhavesh K. Patel (Chicago, IL)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
While this is great if you just want to get the Journal and get your reading done, it suffers from drawbacks that make it less useful than getting the Print/Web edition for $99 -- remember, this is $120 for the year. br / br /We have two Kindle's in the house....it's annoying that I can't deliver it to both of them, even though books can be shared amongst 5 Kindles. This is particularly frustrating because it takes away the whole ritual of having coffee and "reading the paper together". br / br /Also, as previously stated, you don't get online access...I've contacted Fox and WSJ and written a couple of letters...still, no dice after almost a year. br / br /This is really only for people who just want to read the paper by themselves, and don't have a need to search the online WSJ on a topic.
 don't be fooled by print promotional pricing! September 5, 2008
Red Angel (New York, NY)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I am a long time WSJ print subscriber and just cancelled my print. br / br /the reviews talking about pricing of print/online vs kindle are missing the fine print - "new subscribers only". br / br /The kindle price is cheaper than the print price. More than enough to make up for paying for online access separately (which you have to pay additional for when you have a print subscription) br / br /If you like the WSJ and you are a Kindle user, this is the way to go.
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