Amazon is offering free access to the Washington Post’s new app to owners of its Fire tablet, the first tie-up between the companies since the e-retailer’s founder Jeff Bezos bought the paper last year.
The WaPo app, which will be free for six months, will offer two editions, at 5am and 5pm US eastern time, with at least 100 articles, plus breaking news and other updates. The editions will be compiled by a team of 16 journalists working three shifts a day.
It will be imminently pushed to all Fire tablets as a software upgrade, though owners who do not want the app can delete it. After the trial period it will cost a total of $1 (64p) for the following six months and a fee likely to be between $3 and $5 a month after that.
As a Kindle Fire owner, I have to admit that I’m loving this app/subscription. It’s not just the content, but the layout/UI of the app. If it’s a year for $1, I’m definitely in; after that, we’ll see if I’ll end up signing up for $36 or $60 a year…