Like many newsagents I am sure we received Up in the Blockhole, a book by ‘Warwick Todd’. Our margin is 30% – considerably below what it should be for a book. It is also outside the range of book titles we usually carry – if only we were given the opportunity to say now. The publishers of this book are abusing newsagents by accessing our channel. They think they are doing a good thing giving us 30% instead of the usually 25% for magazines. No! This is a book. If we are to carry it we should be supplied on the basis of a good book margin.
Network Services ought to have more sense than sending this to newsagents. I received two copies. Even if the margin was good, how am I supposed to tell a story with that?
G`day Mark, this is the same sort of thing as recieving magazines from Qld newspapers. As a retail only agent each time i recieve mags from Qld newspapers i return them immediately because why should i give magazine real estate away for half the normal return. It has prompted me this morning to also rethink wether or not to display the Smart Investor magazine. I think i will stick to my guns and send it straight back.
Cheers
Al
What a whing now wonder people go on line, you will expect us to find our papers in the hedge next