Picking up a coffee on the way to the office this morning I found another newsagent losing magazine sales now that their local coffee shop is given copies of Cleo, Harper’s Bazzar and other magazines free by Avant Cards free each month. The same coffee shop buys six newspapers a day, I wonder if they will be next.
While I accept the publishers need to enter into whatever arrangements are best for them, to chip away at the newsagent channel will not serve their interests in the long term.