The monthly price for the Kindle edition of Business Week is $2.49. The magazine is delivered weekly and the plus side of the Kindle edition is that according to one Amazon reviewer, you get it every Friday. The print edition hits newsstands on Monday.
The Kindle edition of Business Week does not have images and this is a drawback based on what is reflected in the reviews, however, the articles read much faster.
Business Week, now owned by Bloomberg, began publication on September 7, 1929. Note that this date is less than two months before the stock market crash of 1929. The stock market crash signaled the beginning of the Great Depression that plagued most of the 1930’s.
Business Week is known for reporting the latest business and economic trends. The magazine is also known for predicting the trends of the future. Business Week reported on women in the war work force during World War II, which was a revolutionary concept because before the war, it was virtually unheard of for women to work outside of the home. Business Week covered the successes of Katharine Graham, CEO of Washington Post Company. She was the pioneer of female CEO’s.
Business Week also stays on top of the Information Technology arena, which is a vibrant, constantly changing one. When the magazine was first published, typewriters began to come and become an integral part of businesses. During the 1960’s, the first computers started to appear, but only in a few places. As time progressed, Business Week followed Bill Gates and his PC software endeavors in the 1980s and the Internet boom of the 1990’s. During the 2000’s, Business Week has covered Facebook, Google, smartphones and all of the other latest gadgets we use today.
In 2009, Bloomberg LP, a company owned by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, bought Newsweek from its parent company McGraw-Hill for $5 million. The official name for Business Week is now Bloomberg Business Week. more