A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Magazine Shelf . . .

The Source Interlink shutdown left manymagazine racks empty
in the summer of 2014.

The U.S. publishing industry has a strange habit of referring to retail magazine sales as "newsstand," when actual newsstands account for maybe 1% of copies sold.

It often seems that "newsstrand" would be a more accurate name, because so many copies end up getting stranded rather than being placed where