Publishing Insiders React to Sale of National Distributor Curtis Circulation

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It’s the dawn of a new era: The last remaining national distributor, the ANC-owned Comag Marketing Group, has bought the second-to-last remaining one, Curtis Circulation Company; and if I’m doing my math right, that puts us down to one. One company to interact with publishers, do their billing, manage their distribution, handle their marketing. One company to write their checks.

You could also make a case that there are essentially two major wholesalers left, Hudson and ANC, and you find yourself wondering if the math works here, too.

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