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Borders Delays Payments

Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Editorials,

 

Borders BooksBorders Books is not going to have a happy new year in 2011 and neither are any publishers in their brick-and-mortar stores.
 
 
"The company reiterated an earlier disclosure that without refinancing, it could violate its existing credit agreements in the first quarter of 2011 and ‘experience a liquidity shortfall."
 
This is bad news for publishers and especially bad news for comic book publishers. In the past, when even a small distributor has gone under, it’s deeply affected comic book publishers and pushed several into either lean times or bankruptcy.

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Comic Book Jobs: Newsstand Distribution

Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Editorials,

Spinner RackComic book distribution is no easy task. I’ve known plenty of folks who’ve done it at Diamond, Capital City and other places. It’s hard work, detailed work, and it break a publishing company if it all falls apart. Still, it is a comic book job, and lots of people do it and love it.

Newswest is a North American distributor of magazines, books and comic books to newsstand and other returnable markets. They’re looking for a full-time Data Processor in their Calgary office. That’s Canada who can’t get to the Google fast enough.

You’ll be part of “a team that gathers data from several sources, process it into a SQL database and outputs reports in multiple formats for end users.”

Your primary focus here will be “processing the data inputs and outputs which are pre-built,” which means you’ll be spending a lot of time in a chair, typing.

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