Magazine distributors have the ability to choose what gets put onto the newsstand. Wal-Mart, bypassing the distributor, is very selective in what it takes. It has become a major power in magazine retailing. It also does not take sexually provocative material, which I believe to be a good trend it is following.
Major mass-market books continue to become more expensive to produce due to increased costs of marketing and other costs. This results in publishers feeling that they have to sell more copies of fewer books. This is a very bad trend. There is only going to be a limited numbers of subject materials out there if they do not publish more books. Our society is going to lose the ability to have an opinion if we can not learn through the use of various types of books.
No comments:
Post a Comment