{"id":5101,"date":"2009-02-10T08:23:08","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T16:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5101"},"modified":"2009-02-10T08:27:12","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T16:27:12","slug":"source-interlink-suing-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5101","title":{"rendered":"Source Interlink Suing Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sourceinterlink.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source Interlink<\/a><\/strong> (the parent company of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionsportsgroup.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">ASG Group<\/a><\/strong>) has decided that if the magazine companies aren&#8217;t going to pay the 7 cent per copy increase, then there is a conspiracy against them, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foliomag.com\/2009\/source-interlink-sues-publishers-wholesalers-over-alleged-conspiracy\" target=\"_blank\">Folio.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Source Interlink filed a lawsuit on Monday claiming rival wholesalers, as well as publishers, are attempting to force the company out of business. . . . The suit, filed in New York federal court, seeks emergency court intervention to prohibit the defendants\u2014including publishers <strong>Time Inc.<\/strong> and <strong>Hachette<\/strong>\u2014from monopolizing the U.S. magazine wholesaler market, a Reuters news report said. In the suit, Source alleges that the defendants \u201cconspired\u201d to force the company to sell its distribution business at a steep discount to rivals Hudson News and News Group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Questions: what does this mean for <strong><em>Surfer<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Surfing<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Snowboarder<\/em><\/strong>, and <strong><em>Skateboarder<\/em><\/strong>? If the distribution business is sold, then who will distribute the Source Interlink magazine titles? Or will those be sold, too?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foliomag.com\/2009\/source-interlink-sues-publishers-wholesalers-over-alleged-conspiracy\" target=\"_blank\">Folio<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source Interlink (the parent company of the ASG Group) has decided that if the magazine companies aren&#8217;t going to pay the 7 cent per copy increase, then there is a conspiracy against them, according to a story on Folio.com. Source Interlink filed a lawsuit on Monday claiming rival wholesalers, as well as publishers, are attempting [&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":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5103,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5101\/revisions\/5103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}