Informationsfreiheit und Pressevertrieb in Europa

The consent of networked cooperation between producers, distributors and retailers seems to be a thing of the past, taking into consideration the media shift, decreasing print runs, the increasing importance of sales revenues, and media concentration. Defenders and opponents of the German press wholesale are often eyeball to eyeball with each other, legal proceedings are pending.

How do these forces affect the distribution system in Europe? What essentials should be maintained by whom and on what condition? What does this mean for the German system?

By providing current data from Germany, France, Great Britain and Italy, this third edition offers empirically verified arguments in order to judge properly in overheated debates:

- What were the effects of structural changes in the last couple of years, e.g. in England?
- Will the systems be able to cope with the hazards and to implement the required structural change at the same time?
- What is the outcome of direct benchmarking in structurally different markets?
- Which standards are constitutive and should be strengthened accordingly?