If you have a newsagency in or near Bermagui or Cobargo, you may be able to help…
Bermagui / Cobargo in regional Eden Monaro have no outlets selling anything except Murdoch / NewsCorpse newspapers. Cannot buy Guardian, Saturday Paper or any other even vaguely LW press. Is this common in Regional Oz & if so does it reflect LNP voting successes?
— Lord Rivers of Beer & Antifa (@MarekRivers) November 21, 2020
Most likely the problem would be that they haven’t sold in the past or not enough to make the return process and shelf space allocation worth it. Also if I was a regional customer wanting to access these papers I would do so with an online subscription and not drive potentially long distances to find no stock on hand. Surely the Twitter user above would be able to organise this?
Neither of the two towns now have a dedicated Newsagent. That is the real issue. You can not expect a local service station or supermarket to carry a variety of products.
When did The Guardian start printing papers? i thought it was digital only.
Steve, We have been getting The Guardian here in Cooma NSW for the whole 12 years I’ve owned the store.
Shayne. Fair enough I’ve just never seen one in the wild.
Shayne. I assume when you say you’ve been getting The Guardian for 12 years you mean the UK Guardian as an imported international publication?
I was thinking of the Australian Guardian which is online only.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_Australia
Is it distributed by Ovato or one of the newspaper publishers?
Yeah sorry it is the UK version, it’s distributed by IPS, same as the Saturday Paper
Cobargo lost most of its Town main street in the bushfires December last year I Believe the newsagency was one of them. the comment that Servos and sub outlets only cater for main stream big sellers is spot on Very frustrating for purchasers and it is forcing people to subscribe on line for those products. It illustrates the real value Newsagents are/were to the community and more importantly the sadness in the failure of publishers to realise that the ‘casual sale” leads to permanent readership.
Hi Graeme,
Cobargo closed over two tears ago. Lotto moved to PO not sure about papers and mags.
Thanks for clearing this up Gregg. I thought it was recent How time flies when you’re having fun.