Our supply of Dance Australia magazine was increased from three copies to five with the latest issue. If you click on the image you will see the supply and return data for this magazine going back to February 2010. This data suggests to me that the ideal supply quantity for it is three copies. Clearly, someone or the allocations system at Gordon and Gotch disagrees.
I think that the increase of our supply of Dance Australia is another example of oversupply boy Gordon and Gotch. The evidence challenges their claim that they do not oversupply. It also demonstrates to magazine publishers how newsagents can be treated unfairly.
Okay so it is only two copies and, yes, I can early return them. Two copies played out over a few hundred titles soon adds up. As for the early return argument, there is a cost to that.
What I want is a magazine distributor that is true to their word and does not oversupply, a magazine distributor that does not increase supply, even by one copy, without justification.
If I was a magazine publisher I’d want to partner with a magazine distributor that respects the retailers of my title.
It is decisions like this one regarding Dance Australia where I feel as if they have sent me an extra couple of copies because the stock has to be placed somewhere.