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Thursday June 22, 2006

No peeping!

If you go to a newsagents very often you will see people in front of the magazine stand reading magazines. I have found over the last few months more and more magazines are wrapped up to prevent this. I can understand the motivation of the publishers - if someone can spent half an hour reading the interesting bits out of a magazine why bother to buy it ? The problem is it is another source of un-recyclable waste that ends up in the bin. The publishers will say they are doing this to ensure their product reaches the consumers in tip top condition. If they want to stop people doing this then they need to make their publication better value and have more interesting stuff in there to make casual browing happen less.

( Jun 22 2006, 12:00:01 AM PDT ) Permalink