That's the difference - Metro pays LU for the right to distribute in its stations but the Lite and The London Paper didn't have those contracts, so sent armies of 'distributors' out onto the streets to shove newspapers into peoples' hands.
Evening Standard to become a freesheet
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That's the difference - Metro pays LU for the right to distribute in its stations but the Lite and The London Paper didn't have those contracts, so sent armies of 'distributors' out onto the streets to shove newspapers into peoples' hands.
The whole thing (spending all that on the 'sorry' campaign for a change of direction which hasn't materialised, followed rapidly by change to freesheet) suggests the new owners haven't got anything vaguely resembling a coherent long term strategy.
The whole freesheet approach is such a long way from where ES has been positioning itself in recent times it's going to have do a complete 360. I can't see it working tbh.
As much as I hate the ES for its politics, I'm sad to see what was a sharp, professional newspaper become such a basket case.
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
Seconded.
Reading the shite they were running about Climate camp and the G20 (I know it was shite because, unlike the Substandard, I was actually there), I can't wait to see it fail, especially the thought of a couple of its so-called 'journalists' losing their jobs fills me with glee, frankly.
And if it's only just about to become a freesheet, does that mean people actually paid real money for that repulsive piece of toilet paper? It's actually lower in my affections than Socialist Worker.
Badger Kitten
oof
what about the vendors
My friend has just been made redundant.
No payout. It was classed as 'self-employed'
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I've no time for a rag that booted St. Ken of The Republic Formerly Known As Keningrad.
post-Internet world?
The internet? New-fangled nonsense - told you it wouldn't catch on.
Giles..
Kanda
Diving wanker
What about the cleaners on the tube who'll have even more shit to clean up
They'll have more job security
Hot Tickets was great! I used to buy it for that back in the 90s. There was no good reason to bother with the Standard when they scrapped it for ES magazine, which is just Hello! on a shoestring.
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
Out of interest, what sort of percentage of a newspaper's income comes from paper sales, rather than advertising revenue?
Not disagreeing with you at all - I genuinely don't know, but suspect you do
An average paid-for newspaper makes £155 revenue per year per reader. £90 from cover sales. £60 from advertising. £5 from other ventures. The question about contribution to profit is murkier- depends whether you think distribution is a copy sales cost or a general overhead.
Gingerman
Is a great bunch of lads.....
I know,had a great TV guide in as well,they got rid of it in 2001 I think and bought out a mag called Metro,they replaced that with the excretable ES.
Treacle Toes
Time
newbie
undisambiguated
what about the vendors
... and the newsagents? The little newsagent/tobacconist/sweetshop is already noticeably declining, this could kill a lot more of them off.
stethoscope
Well-Known Member
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
Mendicks is already at the Sunday Telegraph.
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
Shame, he and Prosser were at the forefront of the Substandard's smear campaign against the G20 protests and, for a long time, the Climate Camp.
Stobart Stopper
Well-Known Member
This is fucking shit, as from Monday the newsagent where I buy my Standard won't be stocking it any more.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
I've resented paying for it for years as it's so shit.
I'll feel a tad less resentment knowing I'm not paying for shit
I'll feel a tad less resentment knowing I'm not paying for shit
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
got your first free yet?
same difference as before
same difference as before
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
at that rate you'd be paid around £4.17 as it takes 5 minutes to read the content in the thing...
stethoscope
Well-Known Member
It's a shame they're getting rid of the vendors - they surely could have kept them to dish out the freebie copies. I'd rather them in those little wooden stands shouting 'stanard... get ya stanard' than the London Lite/Paper ones that stand right in front of tube entrances and thrust the bloody things into your face!
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
I've resented paying for it for years as it's so shit.
I'll feel a tad less resentment knowing I'm not paying for shit
Then why the fuck did you buy it?
Dead Cat Bounce
A member of the Waffle elite.
Not that I've read the Standard for years but give me the old vendors any day of the week, these new ones that stand at the middle of the entrance to the tube shouting and thrusting the papers at you
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