Sunday, June 22, 2008

Electronic Newspapers Save Time, Money, Gasoline and Excess Calories

The past week I was out in North Truro on Cape Cod, MA. On the Cape I have my usual morning routine that, in the past, has involved getting up early, jumping in my car and driving 14 miles round trip to Provincetown for a newspaper and usually..... donuts!

This year, instead of driving for the paper (and donuts) I was waking wake up and downloading the Boston Globe to my Kindle. I currently subscribe to an electronic version of the Globe for $9.99 per month - I get an electronic copy of the paper 7 days a week without the ads. $9.99 is a pretty good deal for a full month of the Globe - just the Sunday edition costs $2.50. I also don't get stuck with stacks of read newspapers that I have to eventually bring to the dump (Truro Transfer Station).

In addition to the Globe I also like to read the Boston Herald - especially when it comes to reading about New England sports teams. On Friday the Celtics got to be too much for me - the Herald is not available electronically so...... i got in my car and drove to Provincetown to get the paper. Guess what else I got.
By Saturday morning I was back on the Kindle and off the donuts.

2 comments:

Mark Viquesney said...

If more people went to the Kindle, donut shops nationwide would be in trouble. A few questions: is the cost per year for a Kindle version of the paper, cheaper than the normal paper paper? How many pounds of paper have you saved by not buying papers? Would you buy a Kindle paper that was cheaper if it had the ads in it like a normal paper? Or would you rather just skip all the ads all the time and pay more up front?

Gordon F Snyder Jr said...

Thanks for these great questions Mark!
I ended up writing a new post answering them. Here is the link to the post: http://ictcenter.blogspot.com/2008/06/some-great-kindle-questions.html