Harry, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America negotiated a deal with Dell Magazines that allowed them to sell back electronic issues of ANALOG and ASIMOV'S, but only going back a limited number of months (six, I believe). The reason was that the magazines only acquired (and paid for) First Serial Rights, and allowing back issues to be perpetually for sale was cutting into the authors' abilities to sell reprint rights to their stories to anthologies, and depressing the market for authors' own story collections.
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