The publisher of The New Yorker has released their entire archive, February, 1925 – April, 2006, on a palm-sized portable Hitachi hard drive. 4,000 issues. The cost is US$299. While plenty of magazine content has a shelf life, there are some titles which come to mind which led themselves to similar packaging of archives. Even the weeklies could put together packages of content based on a subject. Of course I would like it if such archive packages were available through newsagents.
Source: meika loofs samorzewski