{"id":5093,"date":"2009-02-09T11:48:37","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T19:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5093"},"modified":"2009-02-09T11:50:01","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T19:50:01","slug":"another-nail-in-the-newsstand-coffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5093","title":{"rendered":"Another Nail In The Newsstand Coffin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like getting printed action sports magazines that last mile to the newsstand is going to get a little harder now that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andersonnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anderson News<\/a><\/strong> has &#8220;suspended normal business activities,&#8221; according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foliomag.com\/2009\/anderson-news-suspends-normal-business-activity\" target=\"_blank\">Folio.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The decision comes roughly three weeks after the Knoxville, Tennessee-based Anderson, along with fellow wholesaler Source Interlink, threatened publishers with separate 7-cents-per-copy price hikes.  . . . Publishers largely balked at the 7-cents-per-copy surcharge and refused to pay, upset at the wholesalers&#8217; sudden and &#8220;unilateral&#8221; decision to boost costs. . . . In a statement announcing the suspension, the company said it will \u201ccontinue to hold discussions with publishers and retailers, trying to develop a viable model that allows it to remain in business.\u201d Anderson said the situation is \u201ca mess for us all.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No doubt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foliomag.com\/2009\/anderson-news-suspends-normal-business-activity\" target=\"_blank\">Folio<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like getting printed action sports magazines that last mile to the newsstand is going to get a little harder now that Anderson News has &#8220;suspended normal business activities,&#8221; according to a story on Folio.com. The decision comes roughly three weeks after the Knoxville, Tennessee-based Anderson, along with fellow wholesaler Source Interlink, threatened publishers with [&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\/5093"}],"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=5093"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5096,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093\/revisions\/5096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}