Further to my post two days ago about a possible new approach to magazine distribution, the supply this week of Menace To Society by Bauer Media’s Network Services to newsagents is a good example of why we need control. This is a title serving a narrow and declining in size niche. In my own newsagency it is a niche of no interest or value to us. If I had control, I’d have said no to the title. But network does to give me the opportunity to say no.
Network demand we take on the debt yet they give us no reasonable mechanism through which to control this. It’s unethical in my view.
Hmm with the details set out in the other post wouldn’t you have to accept this whether you wanted to or not ?
Nu Shaun as I could see the allocation and cut the title before it ever comes to me. It’s covered in the first point: That following allocation of new titles on the distributor computer system, you would have the opportunity to log in to cut those titles or adjust proposed supply volumes. You’d have three or four days to do this.
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