Ship, don't ship, ship, don't ship: make up your minds

Quebecor World, burned by the recent uproar in single copy distribution in the U.S., is requiring a week's notice of any changes to delivery of single copies. A Folio: article reports on just some of the effects of the dispute were on this large magazine printer:

• Anderson's shutdown meant that as trucks arrived at 11 Anderson-owned Prologix East locations between February 6 and February 9, they found them closed. Trucks had to be re-routed back to QW plants. The News Group, which co-owns Prologix with Anderson, re-opened the Prologix East facilities on February 11.

• After Anderson shut down and national distributors had reassigned almost all of the Anderson News and Source Interlink copies to new wholesalers, a court order prohibited publishers and national distributors from denying shipments to Source Interlink's wholesale magazine distribution business. Copies had to be re-consigned—again—resulting in a deluge of shipping requests and changes that created havoc.

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