Pink Paper

[blahflowers]

Does anyone know how pubs,clubs and whatnot get hold of their Pink Papers? I'm hoping to persuade my manager that we start taking it again (we used to but stopped when they had their brief flirtation with being a pay-for mag and then we never went back) but our subs budget is zero for new titles at the moment. Checking their website all I can find is a twelve month subscription package which is £45, but surely pubs and clubs don't pay for getting their copies, so I'm wondering how they get there's and whether there's something we can plug into instead...

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[softfruit.livejournal.com]

I think I do know, but I have to get home from work and dig out the details if I haven't thrown them away

[alecto23.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know for sure how it works there, but if it's a free mag, it may work the way the ones I used to edit work. We had distributors who would pick up the mag once printed (in the wee hours of the morning) and drive round the city with all the papers in their van, dropping them off on the doorsteps of the appropriate places. We had multiple distributors to cover different areas of the city. We also had a few distribution points in the country who had their copies bundled up and mailed to them (boy, was that bundling fun) at no cost to the distribution point. This was distinct from the subscriptions (whether individual or company subs).

You can probably contact them and offer to be a distribution outlet. Depending how choosy they are, they may require more information about the likelihood of people picking them up, things like that, but I should think that if you're in an area that isn't too far away from other distribution points, there wouldn't be that much of a problem. Adding one more drop to the distribution list isn't that much of a biggie; if they have to post them to you, it becomes a more costly enterprise, though. But ultimately, as a free paper, it's in their interests to be picked up by as many people as possible.

Generally the distributors should also be acknowledged in the skite box (the little credit column which tells you who the editor, contributors, etc are) so if worst comes to worst, you could just sleep with one of them in exchange for papers... (Joking.)