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McClatchy Launches Digital Papers on the Kindle

McClatchy is announcing on Facebook that five of its papers are available on the Kindle: The Sacramento Bee, The Charlotte Observer, the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram in Texas, the Anchorage Daily News and the News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C.

The Kindle editions are delivered wirelessly once a day in the early morning, but will not be a complete version of the print edition or even the Web site of each paper. The editions will not have advertising and are free for a two-week trial. The monthly subscription price is $6.99 a month. Amazon is said to take a 70% cut of subscription revenue from newspapers.

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