New Delhi: Leading English daily Hindustan Times said Thursday that it had become the first newspaper to be available globally on Kindle, Amazon.Com ’s best-selling e-reader.
Readers of the newspaper in various parts of the world can now have Hindustan Times delivered daily in near-paper-like form, it said in a press release.
Kindle, which has already reportedly sold more than a million units on Amazon, is an electronic reading device, which can download books and periodicals wirelessly in a very short time. These books can be read in a paper-like display. Many of the leading global newspapers and magazines are available on Kindle.
Sanjoy Narayan, Editor-in-Chief, Hindustan Times said, “Putting Hindustan times on the Kindle will now enable readers across the world to get access to the paper wherever and whenever they want to, in a convenient easy-to-carry format.”