PA's Mollet rebuts Myers' distribution claims

Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 25/03/2011 - 09:35 The Publishers Association has dismissed Waterstone's m.d. Dominic Myers' view that £150m of costs could be cut from the supply chain as being "vastly wide of the mark". At the recent Independent Publishers Guild conference, Myers calculated that if a square foot of storage space costs £50, then there is £150m-worth of excess space in the supply chain as it stands, considering Waterstone's services a quarter of the market with 150,000 sq ft and given a total of 3.5 million sq ft of book distribution space in the UK. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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