Peter Cox pulls no punches in his article about newspapers bublished at Business Spectator.
Cutting down trees and selling them on street corners is a dinosaur doomed to extinction in its present form.
I suspect that environmental issues will play a bigger role in shaping the future of print mediathan we have expected.
Being fairly new to this industry, we have to say that we’re staggered by the amount of waste seemingly endemic to this field of business. On every level, from production, to distribution, to POS, to disposal, one of the most obvious issues we have with our business is waste. We had no idea just how much this would bug us, or just how big an issue it is across the board, until we found ourselves in the middle of it.
Speaking of dinosaurs, we’re also surprised at just how much we’re still at the beck and call of publishers/distributors in this day and age! Print media must be one of the last bastions of this kind of control over private small businesses. Good lord, we even have to ask permission of the main newspaper publisher, before we can shift their stand, in order to maximise OUR business.
A very steep learning curve indeed!
Y&G, Our suppliers do themselves no favours on the environmental front nor on the fairness front.
Welcome to the industry. Put your needs and the needs of your business first. Don’t allow yourself to get trampled.
Peter should have a look around the back of other shops rubbish before having a go at the local newsagent, because he said he never goes there, the tight wad only borrows he’s neighbours paper i see. Properly got the sack form fairfax for clueless copy anyway.
Paul,
Nowhere does peter have a go at newsagents.
Peter Cox is not the story. The growing debate about the environmental impact of print media products is the story.
I have reread his article and stand by my comments .
Someone should tell him his bin with the yellow top is for recycling, using the bin outside the newsagency is just being plain lazy.
Paul, he said he never buys the newspaper, not that he never goes there (maybe he buys magazines or stationary) or never even walks past one.
PNEB and the green credentials of Australia’s printing industry needs to be promoted more. Newspapers are printed on mostly recycled paper, and yet people look at a stack of them and think of the tree’s that died to print throw-away news. Its a perception that needs to be changed.
I think your right SA, reading a “pulped” paper is “cool” (enviromentally responsible to a degree).