They don't deny knowledge of Adventure Bike Rider magazine when it comes to us paying them extortionate amounts of loot for shelf space.morpheus wrote:Hmmm, I tried all the newsagents within 30 miles of Salisbury without success - even WHSmiths Salisbury said they'd never heard of it and couldn't find it on their "list"! Thankfully, ordered my copy from Touratech (thanks for the tip Alun), but strange that WHSmiths, Martins and Forbouys all denied any knowledge.....
Morpheus
What you've experienced is a standard feature of newsagent 'service'. For example, we've been publishing Adventure Travel magazine for 15 years, its stocked in our local Stratford branches of W H Smiths (and has been for 15 years) and yet 50% of the time when I ask staff for a copy they claim they've never heard of it – even when it's on the shelf in their own shop!.
For the record, we are on W H Smiths wholesale list and we are a listed magazine at retail. You can insist they order you a copy, I've paid them enough cash for you to have that privilege. And it would be doing a small publishing company a favour if you did so.
