Financial Times - US Edition Kindle Edition

A review for a newspaper? I'm not sure who would read such a review. But while I'm here....The Financial Times is a British paper centered around the financial world, as you would imagine. But it actually is far more than that. It's a paper whose foreign policy reporting, its independent investigations, and its depth and persistence is simply not to be replicated.I think an investor has to have reality. In my opinion, papers like the NY Times and the Wall Street Journal have clearly partisan leanings. As a student of political science myself, I've never cared for the partisan bickering, it feels more like a sports event than arguing over things that really matter.There's something in the academic study of political science called Realpolitik. In short, what we do and decisions we make as leaders are different than what we say we do, what we report to the media, at a press conference, during an election campaign, in an interview, so on and so forth. Why leaders and governments do things versus why they say they do things are two different things. In Realpolitik, it is admitted that material factors (land, capital, power), not words and ideas, are the prime movers and shakers of world events. Foreign policy, you might think, is somehow unique. But you'd be surprised. Foreign policy is one of those things you won't really read about behind closed doors. The FT gives you an eye into it because it doesn't care about Republicans, Democrats, Obama, or any of the rest of it. It DOES however care about the facts in terms of how these two parties interact, the choices they make and the horsetrading they engage in. It'll talk about all of these, but in the language of a scientist, rather than a pundit.You'll read about foreign policy in terms of what insiders are suggesting is really going on. You'll see what leaders say next to the fact-checking that the FT will do.You'll also benefit from the fact that the FT likes to go in-depth, for several days, keeping to several themes consisting of 2-3 articles on them for a few days in a row (eg., the economy of ISIS, the anonymous hedge fund shorting stocks, the shale boom in the U.S., etc.) If you want to learn topics in depth, rather than skim headlines, then this paper is probably the best out there for it.Politically, it's fairly moderate, but it's very critical of our governments, right and left (if those distinctions still matter). It helps you understand what's going on behind the headlines, which is a process rather than assertion (for those who watch TV news, what you receive are assertions, not real journalism). It's liberal in the economic sense (and for those who don't know what that means, this paper probably isn't for you). Yet it's not afraid to say, for example, that Bolivia's economy is booming under a socialist leader. It'll show inconsistencies in the Republicans, Obama, Labor and Cameron without worry.The Letters section is sometimes amusing, and the Opinions section is sometimes very interesting.I sometimes wish my subway ride were a little bit longer so I could read the morning's subscription.

I got a free subscription option to try it out and articles were interesting, I just felt it was too expensive at the end of it. It automatically subscribed me to paid membership which was ok for a month.Extremely disliked that it's so hard to find the unsubscribe button. Almost feels like a sham. Not sure if this is as a result of FT or Kindle but whichever it is something needs to be done. I will never subscribe to this again just because of that.People should be given a choice and unsubscribing should be easier.

I use this to filter out popular news that I don't care to read. The FT is based in Great Britain but is owned by Japanese. I like that. The USA stories are done well. Business trends are covered. There is not a Ukraine war article every day like other newspapers. I like this.There is no table of stock prices as in the WSj (of the 1970s). Their editorials are sound and avoid hyperbolics of other papers. I like that.I navigate and read on my iPad running the Kindle app. Navigating is annoying. Scrolling the Table of Contents, scanning headlines, and reading if interested is only a little bit better than starting with the first article and reading it or skipping to the next.

I used to get FT to my house, but decided to end my subscription because I just couldn't get to it every day. So after much consideration I decided to subscribe to the Kindle edition.Yes, it is slightly more expensive than paper version. But here's something that I haven't seen in the reviews I've read. There are no advertisements. All that is delivered are the articles. To me, the slight additional cost of the Kindle edition is well (well!) worth getting rid of the ads. So just keep that in mind when you're comparing prices.As for the Kindle version itself... I've gotten used to the navigation and find it quite adequate. Readability is superb. Delivery is flawless. Not having to deal with stacks of unread paper is a bonus. Overall, a great paper that provides a fantastic world-view, with a more neutral tone than the now more-than-ever conservative leaning WSJ (thanks a lot, Murdock :-/). Highly recommended.

You would think that the creators of this edition of FT would take a look at the online editions of the NYTimes or WSJ, or even the digital library of magazines ... Wired, The Economist, The New Yorker ... I found the Kindle edition to be very clumsy and also in one instance, the online edition leaves out reference material that is in the print edition ... specifically, the Lunch With series ... the print edition shows the lunch tab, the Kindle edition leaves it out. Small item, of course, but maybe elsewhere too ... I was disappointed overall.

So, I do enjoy the FT itself. Excellent writing staff, well-researched content, etc. etc. I could go on. However the reading experience on Kindle is just awful. I spoke to the FT about this before, and they tell me Amazon handles all the formatting so it's out of their hands. And Amazon's formatting process is terrible.Over the years I've gotten used to missing images, unreadably blurry images, missing text, weird symbols and badly formatted.. everything. However, in the most recent two issues all whitespace in the Kindle version of the paper has been replaced by dashes: So-all-the-text-now-looks-like-this. Not exactly readable. FT support tells me to contact Amazon, Amazon support tells me to contact FT. Yeah. Great. So maybe someone will notice this review..