Magazines in Tough Talks With Major Wholesaler

Publishers face potential rate hikes

Magazine wholesaling giant Source Interlink Cos. and publishers are locked in battle again, two years after Source’s demand for higher rates temporarily disrupted newsstand deliveries.

It’s bad timing for publishers to get hit with higher rates now, as it was then. Newsstand sales remain soft and advertising has barely recovered from the ad recession. Some publishers also are seeing their paper costs go up.

Given those pressures, the publisher of one large newsstand title said he was determined to dig in his heels.

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