Australian Newsagency Blog

Newsagents are taking action against Quadrant magazine and its shoddy treatment of these small business owners used for the retail and distribution of the magazine.  I have heard from many who are now refusing to carry Quadrant on their shelves.  Some are writing to the Chairman of the Quadrant Magazine Ltd Board of Directors - Elizabeth Prior Jonson.

We are used to publishers spruiking subscriptions in the pages of magazines they sell.  Quadrant goes beyond spruiking in the latest issue of the magazine - they put down newsagents.

Quadrant, like around 65% of the magazines newsagents sell, is cash-flow negative for us.  It is a titled we carried (literally) to support range. I suspect they will soon discover the cost of their public ridicule of the newsagent channel.

FOOTNOTE: The last maagzine to so blatantly attack its retail partners was Fisherman & Boatowner in 2007.  See what I blogged back then.

UPDATE (1530): Crikey.com.au covered this today.  Hopefully it brings more attention to the issue.