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Amazon is offering us some marketing and promotional opportunities we couldn't get anywhere else. They're giving us some chances we haven't had in a long time (if ever). And on balance, in light of those opportunities, it just didn't make sense for F&SF to be available electronically through other vendors.
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Unless Amazon *demanded* the removal of other vendors as part of its terms, there's no reason to restrict access; it makes no sense to say "Barnes & Noble is going to do some great advertising for us, so obviously it doesn't make sense to allow sales from your local comic shop as well."
I wish them well. I haven't heard good things about Amazon's subscriptions, though, and at Amazon, they're competing with a lot of other content.
I really want to know what Amazon offered them that made it worth dropping their entire current digital subscription base.