I am proud to carry Australian Wood Review, Fine Woodworking, Woodcraft Magazine and Woodsmith in my newsagency. They represent the point of difference between a run of the mill magazine retailer and a magazine specialist. Maybe not these specific titles, but special interest titles like them.
We have between eight and twelve woodwork related titles at any one time. It is a segment well browsed and while sales are not stellar, having the category is important to our credentials. The challenge is to balance the offer and ensure that we achieve a commercial return from the space allocated to the segment. This is very hard when we have three distributors of magazines and they do not have visibility of sales. It is good to see one distributor working on this.