Amazon’s Kindle Fire will come with free news from the Washington Post – Engadget

Jeff Bezos runs Amazon and owns the The Washington Post – is it any surprise That Those two entities might start getting a little cozy ? According To A New Report from BusinessWeek , the a group of folks at the Post are working on a variety of curated Washington Post app that’ll be preloaded on the forthcoming Kindle Fire HD tablet. The kicker? It’s expected to be totally free to Those Fire owners, and the app will Eventually roll out to other Kindles, as well as iPads and Android tablets … though the owners of the latters willhave to shell out a subscription fee. This is not the first time That we’ve seen Kindles and traditional reporting Collide – let’s not forget That Amazon once drew a ginormous version of the Kindle Meant the party to make newspapers more palatable on an e-ink screen – but it’s A big, smart step for a Media Company That Has its metaphorical eyes set on a national audience.

After all, just look at the numbers. Amazon has been historically cagey When it comes talking device sales, but if this deal pans out Preloading, the Item’s readership could just explode. The folks in Seattle once said (years ago) That’s Kindle Fire sales accounted for 22% of all U.S. tablet sales, and some back-of-the-napkin math Suggests That Amazon moved to just below 5 million Kindle Fires back then. There’s no denying the tablet landscape has grown and shifted since then but man, that’s still a solid chunk of new readers for a newspaper That has less than half a million daily readers. Our only question: When Are other newspapers going to clamor for That Same juicy access?

Source: BusinessWeek

tags: amazon Jeff Bezos, Kindle, Kindle Fire, media, newspaper, washington post

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