Published: August 02, 2011
New Kindle Exclusive: Free Subscription to Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine Now Available in the Kindle Store
SEATTLE - (BUSINESS WIRE) - (NASDAQ: AMZN) - Amazon.com today announced that a free subscription to
the digest edition of Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine is now
exclusively available in the Kindle Store. Kindle customers who
subscribe will get access to all of the magazine's editorial content -
editor's recommendations, "Curiosities" (odd books of enduring
interest), film reviews, book reviews, cartoons and humor, and "Coming
Attractions" (highlights of each issue) - along with one short story,
all at no cost. Customers can start reading the magazine today on their
Kindle or free Kindle reading apps for Android, iPad, iPhone and iPod
touch.
"Fantasy & Science Fiction is the definitive magazine of the genre,"
said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President of Kindle Content. "We know our
Kindle customers are huge fans of this category, and we're excited to
offer them a free and exclusive subscription to the magazine to read
anywhere."
Stephen King, bestselling author and long-time fan of Fantasy & Science
Fiction, said: "This is the best fiction magazine in America. Kindle
readers are in luck."
Fantasy & Science Fiction, which publishes six times a year, was founded
in 1949 and is the original publisher of classics by a wide variety of
great writers, including Stephen King, Daniel Keyes and Kurt Vonnegut.
Each bimonthly issue offers compelling short fiction and the
science-fiction field's most respected and outspoken opinions on books,
films, and science.
A subscription to the extended edition of the magazine, which is also a
Kindle exclusive, is available for just $12 a year and includes
everything in the digest edition plus several additional short stories
and novelettes. Individual issues of the extended edition are available
for $2.99.
Like all Kindle books and many magazines, Fantasy & Science Fiction is
"Buy Once, Read Everywhere"- customers can read more than 100 newspapers
and magazines, including The Economist, The Atlantic, Newsweek, and the
Washington Post, using their Kindles and free Kindle reading apps for
Android, iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. With Kindle Worry-Free Archive,
books and magazines purchased from the Kindle Store are automatically
backed up online in customers' Kindle libraries on Amazon, where they
can be re-downloaded wirelessly for free, anytime.
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across the millions of items sold on Amazon.
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Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly
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