![]() You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to addition, Amazon will enroll all of the books released via its own Amazon Publishing imprint, and independent authors who publish their works through Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing program can enroll their own books via the program's website. If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.īut you know what? We change lives. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. value seekers should probably steer clear.”Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: The biggest reason is because e-books sold on are already pretty cheap. “But for customers who simply want to save money, buying e-books individually is still a better choice. “MatchBook may be a good option for readers who use e-books but also like having a physical version of the books they read on their shelves,” he wrote. However, Los Angeles Times writer Salvador Rodriguez says the “service isn’t money-saver for e-book buyers.” The benefits of happy readers exposed to your books who might by your next one far outweighs the downside financial aspects.” Kindle matchbook full#I suspect many authors will complain because the think an approach like this will take money out of their pockets because people willing to pay full Amazon price for both a Kindle edition and a print edition will now pay less. Kindle matchbook free#“They tell me they own the print version and ask if there is anything I can do to get a free digital version for them. “I've gotten dozens of emails from the readers of my books who want to have both print and digital of the same title,” Scott wrote. “It’s simple, brilliant, and good for everybody,” Sakey said in Amazon’s press release. “There are plenty of titles I’d like both ways. It’s ridiculous to ask readers to pay full retail twice for the same book.”Īuthor David Meerman Scott penned a column for the Huffington Post in which he declared that he “love this even though it will cost me money in the short term.” ![]()
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