Anderson News suspends operations (2009)

CTL-E-4637 · Event · other · 2009

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Leading U.S. magazine wholesaler — with Source Interlink, about 50 percent of U.S. magazine retail sales — suspended operations in February 2009 after publishers refused a 7-cent-per-copy delivery surcharge; a marker of the print-distribution collapse.

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Print distribution contraction — related to → this record

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Adweek — 'Leading Magazine Wholesaler Anderson Calls It Quits' (2009)

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