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Originally Posted by twowheels
For subscriptions you forgot the fact that you "own" it even less than you do a book. After two weeks [Kindle] it gets deleted, unless you say to keep it, but even then it's only kept for that one device, forget it if you ever want to upgrade and keep your back issue magazines!
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Actually Amazon seems to have gotten a bit better about periodicals management (albeit, in a very confused manner) - if I mark periodicals as 'keep' on my Paperwhite, they stay available on other devices as well, as far as I can tell. I seem to be able to re-download old issues on my Kindle for iPad, for example.
But I think the main point stands - and I think this is truly relevant. Amazon and others are now telling us that when we click on 'buy', we really mean 'rent', and shame of us for not understanding that. But this 'rent' is priced at the buying price of printed editions - or, in the case of periodicals, at a higher price.