NO ECONOMIST IN THAILAND THIS WEEK
Copies of The Economist magazine have once again failed to appear on the shelves in Thailand this week, the tenth time that distribution has been disrupted since January 2009.
A story in this week's edition, which should have started to appear on the shelves in Bangkok on Saturday afternoon, discusses increasing use of lese majeste laws in Thailand.
It is understood the publisher has declined to distribute copies, and a spokesperson for one bookstore has confirmed to me that copies did not arrive in Thailand. It is not known whether copies to The Economist's 1,800 (approx.) subscribers in Thailand were delivered as usual. (Update 08/02 - Subscribers did receive their copies as usual over the weekend).
Since January 2009 there have been eight occasions where the publishers have declined to distribute editions of the magazine to Thailand. On one occasion magazines made it to the Kingdom but were pulped by the distribution company.
2 comments:
Yes it arrived me as usual Saturday morning. Although I rather be anonymous.
Thanks for the confirmation. Subscribers have got their copies on about 50% of the occasions where newstrade distribution was disrupted in the last couple of years.
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