Magazines and Newspapers
Home Delivery
Newsagents deliver newspapers and magazine direct to households and businesses 363 days of the year; Christmas Day and Good Friday being an exception in most states.
Contact your local newsagent to arrange delivery.
In South Australia and Western Australia, specialist delivery agents work from light industrial premises to delivery publications to business and homes. These agents generally do not have a retail outlet. This differs from the practices in the eastern states where the norm is for a newsagent to operate both a retail store and delivery to customers.
Magazines
There are more than 700 magazine titles published in Australia, plus about 3000 international titles distributed in the market place.
- Consumers spend approximately $1.2 billion on magazine purchases
- 80.3% of Australians over 18 read magazines (77.5% men and 83.9% women)
- There are three key local players in the Australian market – ACP, Pacific Magazines and Murdoch Magazines
- There are numerous smaller players – eg BRW Media (Fairfax), News Magazines, Text Media, Horwitz, FPC, Next, Terraplanet, Lovatts
- ACP is by far the dominant player with 46% share of circulation and 47% share of ad revenues.
