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The '''subscription business model''' is a [[business model]] in which a [[customer]] must pay a recurring price at regular intervals for access to a [[Product (business)|product]] or [[Service (business)|service]]. The model [[Publication by subscription|was pioneered]] by publishers of [[book]]s and [[periodical]]s (e.g. magazines) in the 17th century,<ref>{{Citation |last1 = Clapp |first1 = Sarah L. C. |title = The Beginnings of Subscription Publication in the Seventeenth Century |journal = Modern Philology |volume = 29 |issue = 2 |pages = 199–224 |publisher = The University of Chicago Press |___location = Chicago |date = November 1931 |jstor = 433632 |doi = 10.1086/387957 |s2cid = 162013335 }}</ref> and is now used by many businesses, websites<ref>{{Cite web|last=Barseghian|first=Alex|title=Council Post: What's Behind The Rise Of The Subscription Model?|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2019/08/12/whats-behind-the-rise-of-the-subscription-model/|access-date=2021-01-13|website=Forbes|language=en|archive-date=2021-12-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211228070023/https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2019/08/12/whats-behind-the-rise-of-the-subscription-model/|url-status=live}}</ref> and even pharmaceutical companies in partnership with governments.

==Subscriptions==