| The New Yorker |  | Publisher: The New Yorker
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The New Yorker offers a smart, lively, and timely mix of politics and world affairs, business and science, and arts and letters. Its writers and artists, the finest working today, fill the magazine with award-winning reporting, criticism, fiction, poetry -- and cartoons. The Kindle Edition of The New Yorker will usually include all articles, fiction, and poetry found in the print edition and a selection of cartoons, but will not include other images at this time. For your convenience, issues are auto-delivered wirelessly to your Kindle at the same time the print edition hits the newsstand each Monday.
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 The New Yorker and Kindle -- perfect together February 15, 2009
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96 out of 102 found this review helpful
I'd been waiting months, hoping The New Yorker would join the Kindle's magazine lineup, and as I expected, this has been the most satisfying Kindle magazine experience yet.
It's nicely formatted and easily navigated. (Though if I hadn't read another review here, I wouldn't have known how to access the cover by going to the top of the articles list and hitting previous page. Or that I wasn't getting ALL the cartoons.)
Graphic-heavy magazines like Time and Newsweek so far haven't proved worth it on the Kindle, since the stories often refer to pictures or graphs we're not seeing. But though it's become a little more graphic-friendly in recent years, The New Yorker still puts words first, and words are the Kindle's strong point. (That and not ending up with a pile of magazines you don't want to recycle because you think you might want to reread something in the future. A paper subscription to this magazine presents Sorcerer's Apprentice-like problems, given the frequency of publication.)
Price for all this seems more than reasonable, especially given that keeping back issues on my SD card will make my stash more easily searchable than those piles would be, while not creating a fire hazard.
The New Yorker is the best thing Kindle has going May 28, 2009
Mickey Moose (Brooklyn, NY United States)
38 out of 39 found this review helpful
Okay. The three issues I have received have all the cartoons and the short stories from each issue. I guess the editors/Conde Naste have paid attention to the previous reviews. On to my review...
The New Yorker on Kindle is fantastic! The price is cheaper than a paper subscription (barely), better on the environment, and easier to read. I receive the Kindle version way before the print copy arrives in my mailbox as well.
I have to complement Conde Naste, they really get how a digital subscription should work. The content should include everything from the print version, should be easy to manage, and it should be cheaper. Well done. I could not be happier. I kind of feel like the 2 and 3 star reviews are either from people complaining about the cartoon snafus (which appears to be fixed) or from people who love to complain about things in general. Enjoy.
Best Kindle Magazine March 15, 2010
M. Fox (Castleton, Vermont USA)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
The New Yorker has the best content of any general magazine in the US in my opinion and this carries over well to kindle formatting unlike many magazines.
Why?
1. Table of contents is excellent.
2. Text content is the focus of the New Yorker, so Kindle formatting works well.
3. Cartoons now included.
4. Font size can be changed. The New Yorker magazine has very small print. I find I read much more at one time than I do with the print version as I get much less eye strain. As I age this is increasingly important.
5. You can save issues without the storage problem and tree guilt caused by the print version.
6. I miss the fashion and other such ads that clutter the magazine.
As I read the previous reviews, I think things must have improved as I don't share some of the concerns voiced.
Enjoy!
The Kindle magazine store just got a lot classier February 11, 2009
Joseph P. Menta, Jr. (Philadelphia, PA USA)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
The Kindle version of "The New Yorker" looks great and is easy to navigate. No, you don't get all of the cartoons from the print version, but you get a nice handful of them- accessed via clicking on the cartoonists' names at the end of the Articles List. I was going to complain that the print version's cover (one of the most notable aspects of the magazine) isn't included in the Kindle version, but it is. After a bit of investigation, I discovered that if you simply hit the previous page button after you're sent to the first page of the Articles List- voila!- you're shown the cover. Don't know why they're being so cagey about it, but at least it's there. Monthly subscription price is very good, too. For the price I'm paying for each monthly issue of "Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine" on the Kindle, I'm getting four (and sometimes even five) full issues of "The New Yorker". This was an easy buying decision.
2/17/09 postscript: I see from my new issue of "The New Yorker" that they somewhat corrected the cover problem. You're still not sent to the cover when you first open your new issue, but at least they're more clear that it's there. On the first page of the Articles List- the place you're still sent upon first opening your issue- there's now an entry for "Cover", which also helpfully includes the name of the artist who drew that week's cover, along with the title of the cover art. Just click on the cover info and you're sent to the cover. Or, as said before, you can still just hit the previous page button from the first page of the Articles List to get there, too.
3/3/09 postscript (the final one, I promise): Another new issue, another change. This time, when I opened my newest issue (my first on my new Kindle 2), the first thing I saw was indeed the cover, so there you have it. No selecting or clicking to see what by all rights SHOULD be the first thing one sees upon opening "The New Yorker". Though (grumble) the cover is reproduced a little small, underneath the needless redundancy of the magazine's title floating above the magazine cover (redundant because the title is right there within the cover reproduction). Whatever. It's petty to quibble.
Anyway, chalk up this silly review, with its endless updates, to the fact that Amazon and its participating magazines continually tweak Kindle content to improve their readers' experiences. And they mostly succeed.
By the way, "The New Yorker" looked and worked great on the first Kindle and- with more elegance and more functionality- everything is even better on the K2.
Switched to Kindle version April 23, 2010
Arsenal (California, USA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I subscribed to Kindle version of New Yorker magazine last week. I will definitely keep the subscription. I am a long time subscriber of print version of the magazine, but Kindle version gives me great enjoyment of reading the New Yorker articles and cartoons using my favorite e-reader. I called New Yorker to see if I can transfer my print subscription to Kindle version, but they said that they can't do it since the Kindle version is offered by Amazon. However, they cancelled my print subscription and gave immediate refund for my unused issues. So, in fact, I switched from print to Kindle version without any problems. I love Kindle and I love New Yorker on Kindle.
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