{"id":4910,"date":"2009-02-04T15:34:42","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T23:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4910"},"modified":"2009-02-04T18:55:46","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T02:55:46","slug":"source-interlink-getting-squeezed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4910","title":{"rendered":"Source Interlink Getting Squeezed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sourceinterlink.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source Interlink Co.s<\/a><\/strong> the parent company of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionsportsgroup.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">ASG Group<\/a><\/strong> (publishers of <strong><em>Snowboarder,<\/em><\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong><em>Surfer<\/em><\/strong><strong>, <\/strong><strong><em>Surfing<\/em><\/strong>, and <strong><em>Skateboarder<\/em><\/strong> magazines) is denying that it is shutting down its magazine distribution business after major publishers pulled their titles from the magazine distributor thanks to the proposed <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?s=source+interlink\" target=\"_blank\">7 cent per issue fee<\/a><\/strong> Source was hoping to charge:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gillis said the country&#8217;s biggest publishers, along with national distributors Curtis and Time Warner Retail, are shutting Source and Anderson out of the magazine supply chain in a bid to wrest pricing control away from retailers. &#8220;This is about American Media and Curtis and Bauer and Time Warner trying to control retailer pricing by eliminating magazine wholesalers so they don&#8217;t have so many they&#8217;ve got to do business with,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Guess it&#8217;s kind of hard to distribute magazines if no one is giving you magazines to distribute. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re kind of glad it only took two minutes to distribute this post to the world and that we didn&#8217;t have to deal with anyone to make it happen. No wonder print advertising is so expensive. . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foliomag.com\/2009\/source-interlink-digs\" target=\"_blank\">Foliomag.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source Interlink Co.s the parent company of the ASG Group (publishers of Snowboarder, Surfer, Surfing, and Skateboarder magazines) is denying that it is shutting down its magazine distribution business after major publishers pulled their titles from the magazine distributor thanks to the proposed 7 cent per issue fee Source was hoping to charge: Gillis said [&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\/4910"}],"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=4910"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4919,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910\/revisions\/4919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}