It is interesting to see that Associations continue to be used by newspaper publishers to promote their changes – Fairfax this week as the tabloid editions of the SMH and Age approach and News Limited promoting thier advertiser (BMW) driven Sunday delivery of The Australian. each time an association publishes press released from the publishers they do themselves a disservice. Their members are newsagents. Everything they publish and do should be solely for their members and reflecting the collective member position.
The reality is that the publishers are lazy and do not have, and never have had, in place systems to support distribution of newspapers via newsagents.
Their method, mentality and culture is stuck in a 19th century mode. Where a bunch of a paperboys stood at the end of a press to fill up a hessian bag with papers before running off to their designated street corner, GETCHADIALLYNEWZHEYAA!