1 stars (Watch Out - Automatic Renewals and No Refunds) - This is not a complaint about Amazon, just the Wall Street Journal On-Line. I subscribed to WSJ Online and used a credit card to pay. As my subscription was ending, I started receiving e-mails saying that my credit card had expired and the subscription would not renew. That was fine with me because I hardly ever used it. Despite those messages, the subscription did renew and I received a much higher charge on my credit card than I had paid in the previous year. When I tried to cancel my unwanted subscription I was told that WSJ Online would not give any refunds and that I was stuck with the one year subscription.
5 stars (The WSJ has the best information) - I enjoy reading the Wall Street Journal Online. You don't have the clutter of newspapers, and you can save the articles you like on your computer.
You can also use Google Desktop to index your computer so that if you want to search for a Wall Street Journal article that you saved on your computer you can put in a keyword and find it fairly quickly.
The online subscription is also much cheaper in cost than the print version and to me far more convenient. The cost was much cheaper before. After the WSJ added the weekend edition, the price was raised, and it seems there is very little discounting as I have searched for a greater discount.
You just have to learn how to navigate around the newspaper. My favorite thing to do is to click on Today's Print Edition on the left side. You can then see most of the important articles. I also like the feature where you click on most popular articles for the day, week and month. When you open an article, you will see that feature on the upper right hand side. Click on most popular.
You can customize your page, and select an industry that you want to read about, and everyday you will see articles pertaining specifically to that industry.
You can also see the European or Asian Wall Street Journal and get a perspective from other countries of what is important to them. You can also read Barron's Online which is also a bonus.
You can read the Wall Street Journal Online anywhere that you want as long as you have internet access and remember your sign in and password.
You can usually see the next day's front page column's by 11:30PM or 12:00am which means you can read those articles that night or early in the morning, typically before a newspaper would be delivered. The newspaper's first stories are usually constantly updated and if there is a big breaking news story you will see that displayed right at the top of the newspaper. It will also show you the time of the story.
People think of the Wall Street Journal as only a business newspaper, but that is not true. It contains articles on many different aspects of life, from new technologies, medical breakthroughs, trends, to interesting articles about other countries and customs. Most newspapers that write articles about events happening in the world skim the surface in terms of real details, whereas the Wall Street Journal will go into great depth. Of course the Wall Street Journal is the best business newspaper around.
Quite a few people have asked me how do you think of new ideas for a business. Simple. Read the Wall Street Journal. It not only keeps you up to date of what is happening in the world, but it tells you about new ideas and trends that are emerging. They tell you about other countries and ideas. For instance, China and India have been extensively written about for years.
The Wall Street Journal is very educational, and gives you the ability to talk to people about a variety of subjects. It lets you know what is going on in the world, not just from our perspective, but from the viewpoints of other people and countries.
If you read an interesting article, you can easily click on email on the upper right hand side and e-mail it to a friend.
If you want to print the article it is best to click on print on the top right hand side to put the article into a printer friendly format.
You can also look at prior editions in the archive section, but it is only up to 30 days prior. It used to be one year.
1 stars (Process for Obtaining WSJ Online) - The Wall Street Journel is an excellent resource/web site.
To obtain your temporary password and access to the web site is totally ridiculous. The password is shipped to you in a box with excess junk. In addition there is a shipping charge for all of that junk. If you decline shipping charges your password is delayed a few extra days.
Most other sites either send you a letter within a few days or have some type of authentication that allows you to come online immediately. If Amazon can take your credit card information immediately in a secure mode why not give me my password immediately and send me the junk mail later????
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