From: Gizmodo ~ When You Cancel Your Magazine Subscription on Your Kindle, Your Back Issues Disappear Too
Oh my…
Apparently, if you’re a Kindle owner with a magazine subscription, and you decide to STOP subscribing, the back issues you previously downloaded are also lost—FOR GOOD.
Tags: Kindle
Dana S wrote,
I don’t think this is completely true. At least, my boyfriend says that he still has his old periodicals after canceling a subscription. Maybe it depends on the subscription?
Link | April 19th, 2011 at 1:37 pm
TeddyPig wrote,
Well there definitely is no way to transfer old editions and there is a cleanup process trying to delete your old editions all the time so I can see lots of issues with Kindle and subscriptions that probably are created by the way it archives things.
Link | April 19th, 2011 at 1:46 pm
BevQB wrote,
TP, FWIW, Teleread has refuted the Giz post:
http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/you-will-not-loose-your-kindle-back-issues-when-you-cancel-a-subscription-gizmodo-is-wrong/
Basically, you DO lose back issues unless you tell your Kindle to keep them.
Link | April 19th, 2011 at 3:16 pm
TeddyPig wrote,
Now see I read all those posts and realized they were not saying that it did not happen to people. They just showed how you could stop some of the issues from happening but it was still confusing and sounded messy.
I also never got the idea that Kindle made any of it easy to transfer to another device for storing more of the older subscriptions so if you did not download on your archive device it was over.
Link | April 19th, 2011 at 3:22 pm