Newsweek is available for $2.99 a month on the Kindle, which is a pretty good deal considering that Newsweek is a weekly magazine.
“This weekly news magazine reports on each week’s developments on the national and global news front through news, commentary and analysis. Its features include national and international affairs, business, lifestyle, society, the arts, politics, the economy, personal business, the Washington scene, health, science and technology.” – Amazon
Newsweek was founded on February 17, 1933 by Thomas J.C. Martyn, a former foreign editor at TIME magazine. It cost $10 cents a copy and had a circulation of 50,000 readers a year. The Washington Post Company bought Newsweek in 1961 and today, the magazine has a circulation of about 4 million readers. more
Newsweek holds the most National Magazine Awards of any other newsweekly. Newsweek’s Editor is John Meacham, Managing Editor is Daniel Klaidman and Newsweek International Editor is Fareed Zakaria. Newsweek and Newsweek.com include commentaries by notable figures such as Anna Quindlen, George Will, Jonathan Alter and others. The magazine is mostly current events and politics with a little bit of entertainment or humor mixed in.
According to the reviews, Amazon needs to bring back the character of the magazine by adding columns such as “Conventional Wisdom”, “Perspectives” and “Then and Now” to the Kindle version. That tends to be a trend across all magazines that are offered on the Kindle. If you take out certain columns that define the magazine, it no longer has those unique attributes that only that particular magazine has. The positive feedback pointed out that it was great to go straight to the articles and not worry about the graphics or pictures. Newsweek is a great magazine that can be adapted for Kindle because the quality of writing portrayed in its articles. The Kindle version gives the writing a chance to shine.
Currently, Newsweek is owned by the Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO)