I thought this newspaper stand was interesting – compact yet offering a range. It was in the doorway of a Dymocks store here in Hong Kong. Dymocks over here is what we’d call a newsagency but with a books component.
There is no big boat anchor newspaper stand taking up expensive real-estate. They display newspapers as an add on service and not at the heart of the business.
I’d expect Australian newsagents to start to challenge the real-estate they give to newsagencies and find ways of serving newspaper products successfully but using less real-estate.
I’m sure I’ve seen racks like these in newsagents in Sydney, although I could be mistaken. Not carrying the major dailies, but all the minority weeklies.
Displays like this are very common in the UK for carrying the dailies, but then an average newsagent there carries ten dailies and those in Scotland might have fifteen or more.