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The Boston Globe | 
 enlarge | Publisher: The Boston Globe
Category: Digital Text Feeds
Buy New: $9.99
Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 1456
Format: Newspaper Subscription
Media: Kindle Edition
Subscription Length: 0 Months
ASIN: B000HA4FKY
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Product Description
The Boston Globe is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Mass., and in the greater New England region. Awarded numerous Pulitzer Prizes, The Boston Globe provides comprehensive local, national, and world news and features columns in news, arts and entertainment, business, sports, travel, life, and real estate. Notable contributors include Ty Burr, Ellen Goodman, Jeff Jacoby, Bob Ryan, Dan Shaughnessey, and Dan Wasserman. The Kindle Edition of The Boston Globe 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 so you can read them each morning.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 Not What I Expected January 1, 2009
The Boston Globe If you're looking for the real Boston Globe, unfortunately you won't get it here. The Boston Globe is my local newspaper, so I want the local news and reporting, not just the major articles. I'm used to seeing local high school sport information, box scores, etc in the sports section. Unfortunately you only get a few parts and pieces of the newspaper. Thanks, but that's not offering me any real value. If you ever change to offering the real newspaper, then I may be interested in subscribing.
 Went back to electronic edition December 4, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
After trying the Globe on Kindle for 6 weeks, I went back to the Newsstand electronic edition.
There were good things about the Kindle edition: it's much more portable, and I wouldn't need to carry a laptop and arrange for an internet connection when I was on the road. It's easy to read on the no-backlight Kindle screen. The organization of the paper is pretty good.
But the Globe's Kindle edition needs much improvement. It's almost like getting the newspaper in paperback book form, and nobody has the time to read or even skim through 700 pages every day. You can jump around with headlines, but often they aren't descriptive enough. Daily columnists are never identified, so you have to guess which headline takes you to Joan Vennochi or Bob Ryan.
Why would you pay for the electronic edition instead of reading the free website? For me, it's to get the Globe's presentation of everything it has to offer. The front page has important news at a glance, but you also see features and photos you might never read except for their placement. You can tell quickly what stories are most important, and read a few sentences or half the story. On a newspaper website, I get lost in clicks and side stories, and after a half dozen stories I can hardly find your way back to the beginning. I never spend as much quality time with [...] as I do with the paper. The Kindle edition needs to do more to provide the reading advantages that are worth paying for.
The Newsstand electronic edition gives me the navigation and appearance of the printed paper. I can read it anywhere I go without all the trash, and it's cheaper than the printed paper too. The Kindle edition was fun to try and easier on the eyes, but after a long trial I preferred the other system. If they improve the Kindle headlines and include some vital information (like who is writing the columns!), I'll give it another try.
Very cool to get via kindle November 11, 2008
Really is great to get my Globe without having to go outside or playing head games with the delivery clown who delivers it. Yes it does need some improvements in missing items and navigation hiderences, but overall its very coolto get the paper this way.
 Great newspaper on the Kindle October 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Boston Globe is an excellent newspaper, and the Kindle delivers it in an ideal format. It's wonderful to have access to a paper with substance since there are no decent papers in the Baltimore area. The Globe provides insightful and well-written articles on national and international topics. In addition, the local articles are interesting even for someone who doesn't live in New England. The Kindle edition is easy to navigate and always ready for me when I turn on my Kindle at 5:15 in the morning. I don't have to worry about rushing out in the bad weather to search for a paper, and with a click of one finger I can read through the articles and still hold my coffee mug. I can't imagine going back to reading a print edition of a newspaper with all of its cumbersome sections, messy ink, and ads.
Not bad but needs much improvement August 18, 2008
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
Pros:
Electronic delivery
No paper to recycle
Sections are listed and presented for navigation
Entire paper is searchable
You can keep as many editions as you like (depends on your Kindle's storage).
You can resend any edition (back one week) via your Amazon Kindle account management page. Great if you accidently delete an edition.
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Cons:
Less content than paper edition (no comics, no classifieds, no coupons, few pictures, few obituaries).
No weather report or forecast
No league standings for ANY sports - an inexcusable omission!
Articles are not in the same order as paper edition
Some article appear twice in the same edition using different titles. Poor editing procedures.
Articles sometimes have programming codes left in them during the conversion process, again poor editing.
Boston Globe team can be late in delivering the Kindle edition (really, how hard can it be to deliver ONE computer file on time?)
Unusable web-links are sprinkled throughout articles. They do nothing but distract the reader. Probably residue left by the poor conversion and editing process.
You can't easily jump back an article if you inadvertently click past one. You have to either click back page-at-a-time (slow) or jump articles starting back from the section beginning (again slow). This can be quite a pain.
Amazon Kindle support isn't available until 9:00 AM EDT. This is a pain if Amazon's electronic delivery fails for the Boston Globe (happened to me once) and you need them to resend.
Hard to believe, but the Boston Globe's customer service department is unaware that they publish a kindle edition! Don't call them with delivery failures--they're completely clueless.
A recent change in the Kindle's format now has articles ending and beginning on same page rather than beginning on their own page as they did before. This makes navigation worse as it sometimes separates articles from their navigation links. Bad decision.
Price is too high at $9.99/month considering you're not getting everything the paper edition offers made worse by poor editing. I feel it should be closer to $5.
Overall it feels like the Boston Globe team takes the closest thing resembling an electronic edition and simply shoves it through the Kindle reformatting utility. It's apparent there's little effort to polish the Kindle edition.
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