{"id":4390,"date":"2009-01-22T08:02:39","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T16:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4390"},"modified":"2009-01-22T08:03:32","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T16:03:32","slug":"the-newsstand-gets-more-costly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4390","title":{"rendered":"The Newsstand Gets More Costly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We mentioned <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionsportsgroup.net\/job.htm\" target=\"_blank\">ASG<\/a><\/strong> parent corporation <strong>Source Interlink Cos.<\/strong> a couple weeks ago when their owner <strong>Ron Burkle<\/strong> bought an 8.5 percent share of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3744\" target=\"_blank\">Barnes &#38; Noble Booksellers<\/a><\/strong>. Now, the company has announced that beginning February 1, 2009 they are joining <strong>Anderson News<\/strong> in charging a 7-cent fee per issue of magazines delivered to the newsstand regardless of the sell through, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/01212009\/business\/newsstand_holdup_151073.htm\" target=\"_blank\">NY Post<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The remaining big distributors &#8211; <strong>Jimmy Pattison&#8217;s News Group<\/strong>, based in Atlanta and Vancouver, British Columbia, and New York-based <strong>Hudson News<\/strong> &#8211; have not sought a fee hike.. . . But if all magazine distributors follow suit, publishers worry it could sock them with an additional $1 billion a year in expenses at a time when they are contending with plunging advertising revenue and sagging newsstand sales.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, magazines could easily cover these increased costs by simply cutting a few more editorial positions. . . and maybe the ASG titles will get a synergistic freeride.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/01212009\/business\/newsstand_holdup_151073.htm\" target=\"_blank\">NY Post<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foliomag.com\/2009\/more-wholesaler-pricing-pressure-source-interlink-raising-rates-too\" target=\"_blank\">Folio Mag<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We mentioned ASG parent corporation Source Interlink Cos. a couple weeks ago when their owner Ron Burkle bought an 8.5 percent share of Barnes &#38; Noble Booksellers. Now, the company has announced that beginning February 1, 2009 they are joining Anderson News in charging a 7-cent fee per issue of magazines delivered to the newsstand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4392,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions\/4392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}