Boston Globe Kindle Edition

The recent price increase for home delivery of the Boston Globe has been the subject of much discussion this week. So far, we have not had a price increase for our morning Globe.

At the beginning of this year, we opted out of home delivery. We still receive the Globe each day, but it arrives on our Amazon Kindle Reader.

Yes, we had to buy the Kindle reader. Right now that costs $299. But, the price for the Globe delivered to a Kindle is $9.99 a month. That comes to $119.88 a year.

According to WBZ TV the current price for home delivery of the Globe for us would be $12.25 a week. Outside the Greater Boston area, it's $15.50 a week. With the price increase we would have been paying $637 a year. Isn't that somewhat like getting the Kindle for free?

If you already have a Kindle, you can try a 14 day free trial of the Globe and many other newspapers.

The Pros Of The Boston Globe Kindle Edition

• Your paper is delivered every morning, without fail. We have not had a copy stolen from our front steps, forgotten by our carrier or delivered to the wrong address.
• When you travel within the USA, your morning paper arrives on your Kindle just like it does at home.
• It's much easier to read on the train. You can hang on with one hand and work the Kindle with the other.
• We also buy other books for the Kindle at a discount. We are using it for more than the paper.
• With Amazon's free email delivery option, you can send other documents that you want to read to the Kindle.
• You don't get ink on our hands from reading the paper.
• You don't have piles of newspapers to recycle.
• You don't have to tip the paper carrier.

The Cons Of The Boston Globe Kindle Edition

• You don't receive the entire paper. You don't get the comics, coupons, circulars, TV listings, and all the graphics and photographs. But, you can see some of these online.
• You can't share the paper on a Sunday morning. We have a routine where I read the paper before Ed leaves for work and he reads it on the train. On weekends we take turns. 
• There are some silly glitches like stories showing up in the wrong section. Always check the obituaries--you never know what you will find there.
• Bylines are often missing and you sometimes have to scan to the end of an article to see who wrote it.
  
• You won't have newspapers to start a fire in your fireplace, wrap a fish or wash your windows. I also used them to husk corn this time of year.
• It's so easy to buy books that you may have to put yourself on a book budget or you'll eat up all the money you saved in the switch.

We'll be happy to answer and Kindle/Globe questions. Anyone else out there using the Kindle for newspapers?