While apps can be different, Amazon generally keeps a “rolling seven”. That’s the current issue, and six back issues. After that, they don’t store them.

Let’s say it is a monthly magazine. You first subscribe with the January issue. When it gets to August, Amazon will stop storing that January issue for you,

You can choose to “Keep” an issue, but that just gives you a local copy on your device, which won’t work on another device.

You can get Newsweek through Zinio…and they back up and store all of your back issues for you.

http://www.zinio.com/

I have a subscription with them, and have been pleased with their access. The magazines do typically appear just as they would in print…but of course, that depends on the publisher. When there is no print edition, will they do full page ads, for example? Perhaps.

Ifyou want to store the issues yourself, that’s a bit more complex, and no more reliable, I think. Generally, digital files are keyed to a specific device. When you back up the file yourself, it won’t work if you have to replace your device. With Zinio (and with other places that store your files), you can typically access them on a different device (although you may be limited as to how many devices can have an issue licensed at the same time).

I do access Zinio on my Kindle Fires, by the way.

I am also concerned about the presentation – I do not want to read something that is not presented like a print magazine with pages. I am not interested in “browsing” a website…

As far as content and bias over the years, I do have to admit I have seen a rise in the bias – and yes, with a lean toward liberal ideas. I am not happy about that either, but have been unable to find a substitute (print) magazine that I can handle. For instance, TIME has too much advertising and many of the pages have strange layouts that make them hard to read.

I am still trying to figure out what to do about the digital Newsweek. Fortunately, my current subscription is good until March, so I have some time to peruse it online. I am having trouble determining the ability to save issues – does anyone know if/how this works?
THANKS!

“Ah, a differ-beggar!”

LOL!

“Much of the expense of publishing doesn’t have to do with production and transport, as I understand it, but it does have an influence, and an increasing one. As a general rule of thumb, things based on natural resources (such as paper and the gas necessary to transport magazines) gets more expensive, and technology gets less expensive.”

Which favors the book industry eventually transitioning to PODlishing.
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It’s cruel, but I think things look grim for Newsweek. (The competition from the upstart “The Week” probably hurt it too.) What success has US News & World Report had after it made the same switch four (?) years ago? My WAG: not much. And Newsweek has lots of entrenched competition online in Huffington Post, Slate, Salon, NYT, — even USNWR!

If only the web had been set up with a built-in, capable micro-payments system!

Today’s magazines aren’t made of very hardy stuff…I’m not sure they’ll be around much in the 24th Century. Due to production quality differences, I think a 19th Century hardback, like Moby Dick, stands a better chance.

My emotional reaction to someone reading a paperbook is now to feel sorry for them, which seems bizarre to me.

You might enjoy this one:

http://ilmk.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/if-e-books-were-first/

Yes, I assumed that’s what you meant. I was responding to that. I work quite a bit more than forty hours a week, usually. It seems a bit unusual that a company would not allow someone to use the internet on their own equipment during a break, but that’s possible. I do tend to write quickly, so the amount of time I spent on it might have been misleading.

The reason I was joking about you saying the parameter was that if it was in print it was expected was that you said this:

“If it was highly-respected it would still be in print.”

My point was that, since it is in print until 2013, your statement, through the reflexive property, says that it is highly-respected. One could read it and say, “If it was highly-respected it would still be in print…since it is still in print, it is therefore highly-respected.” Sorry that humor didn’t play…always a risk.

It will continue to be published after 2012, but it will not be in print (meaning in a physical edition).

I completely understand your passionate response to what I think you saw as an undeserved compliment for something which had disappointed you with a change in editorial policy. My use of the term was probably too subjective for a declarative statement like that, and I appreciate you pointing that out.

I hope that if you see something that moves you that you’ll write again. My favorite thing is when someone comments to disagree with me respectfully, and you have certainly contributed to the blog today.