Sometimes, I’ll see a magazine article cited, and want to read it. For magazines that work on the non-Fire Kindles, I would assume it is the same. The number of issues stored on the device seems to vary, but the back issues should be available regardless of which Kindle Fire you have. Note that the help page is for the Kindle Fire HD 8.9″. Manage Your Subscriptions Amazon help page The 12 most recent issues of your magazine subscription and the 14 most recent issues of your newspaper subscription will also be available from the Cloud tab on your Kindle Fire.” “Back issues of magazines and newspapers that you subscribe to are stored and available to download again from the Manage Your Kindle page ( ). I’ve also been pointed to this (thanks again, *~*Pineapple*~*), which makes it official: Update: I’ve now had indications that this happened July 1st, so it’s recent (thanks to *~*Pineapple*~* for that info!). So, I guess that one is solved…four to go. Lo and behold, there were more than seven issues available to me! The display was different…it used to be a simple dropdown, now it is a horizontal scroll. However, I went toĪnd checked one of the subscriptions we still have (National Geographic). I’m quite sure that isn’t the way it used to be. Update: big thanks to my reader, Michael! Michael commented to tell me that there were more than seven issues in Michael’s archives. If your Kindle fails with magazines stored on it that you’ve kept, you just lose them. However, you store it locally on your device (and magazines take up a lot of memory, because of all the pictures)…and it only works on that one device. I should point out that you can “keep” an issue, and then it isn’t part of your rolling seven. That’s my first (and biggest, I think) suggestion: store my back issues for me, just like you store e-books and apps. I remember specific articles, and go back to them. For me, though, I go back and look at back issues. You could, I suppose, think about it like paying your cable bill. Yes, you are getting a new magazine to read each month…but why then do they give you access to any back issues?Įventually, you will have paid hundred of dollars…and you will have access to seven issues. You keep paying more, but you don’t have more access. When August arrive, you’ve paid $24…but still only have access to seven issues. By the time July rolls around, you’ve paid $21. If one issue is $3, and let’s say you don’t get a subscription discount, you pay that $3 a month. Pay $50 once, and you have access to the current issue and six previous ones. That would be different, and people would go for that as an option. After all, I pay every month…I don’t just pay one lump sum for access to a rolling seven issues. When August comes, though, you lose access to January. You can redownload the issue, even download it to another (compatible) device on your account. Let’s say you start a subscription with the January edition of a monthly. The way it generally works at Amazon (although my Entertainment Weekly, which I get through an app from the Amazon Appstore, rather than through the Newsstand, keeps all the issues for me) is that you get the current issue and six back issues. I know this one can be done…because my Zinio subscriptions do it! I don’t really buy books anywhere except the Kindle store, but I do prefer Zinio for magazines, and this is one of the biggest reasons. Store my back issues for me (see updates in this entry) □ However, if they could be done (in an economically feasible way for Amazon and the publishers), well, I’d be much happier.ġ. Some of the things I suggest here might also have technical barriers. I could also get Entertainment Weekly at no additional cost as a digital subscription through the Kindle store…although I was happy when they let me just drop the paper version, and get it only for my Fire. Those are just the ones that are part of that program. In fact, there are 46 currently listed in the It’s up to the magazine publisher to do that. Amazon can’t just scan the paper magazine and make it available to you. I saw that recently with somebody wanting digital access to a publication to which they have a paper subscription. I very often see people blaming Amazon for things that somebody else has to change. Now, before I list these, let me say that I know this isn’t all under Amazon’s control. I would have kept them, though, if a few things had been different. I checked with everybody on the account, and we just weren’t really reading them enough. In fact, we recently dropped some magazine subscriptions through the Kindle store. Sure, there are changes I’d like to see everywhere, but I’m not dissatisfied with the current set up on e-books, for example. Generally, I like the way Amazon does content for me. 5 changes I’d like to see to Kindle magazine subscriptions
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