Magazine Terms

Overseas Retail Customers

For UK Magazine Terms please click here

For General Standard Trading Terms, covering all supplies [books, magazines and other products], click here.

 

Central Books supply magazines at a 25 percent discount. Discounts can be higher if orders are large enough.  
All magazines are due for payment by the end of the 2nd month following the month they were invoiced in. For example, all invoices dated July should be paid by the end of September. This applies whether the magazines are monthly, quarterly or annual. All our magazines can be returned unsold, provided this is done within a certain period. For more precise returns conditions please click here

 

In practice this can occasionally mean that you have to pay for all the copies of a particular magazine before you have returned them.


When you do send returns to us (many people wait till they get a new issue before returning the previous one), we will issue a credit note, which we send out with the statements each month. We ask customers not to make deductions till credit notes have been issued.


For most magazines you do not need to return the whole copies, you only have to return to us the bannerhead of the magazines - that bit of the cover with the title and date of issue on. However is the magazine is Selvedge magazine or the magazine is priced at £10 or over we need the whole copy returned before we can credit it. Click here to download our magazine returns sheets for overseas retailers. (To obtain a free Word Viewer to view the word documents click here)


We send out statements every month listing all invoices and credit notes and paid items; if you notice a discrepancy, please contact us immediately. Late payment can mean that supplies will be suspended. If this happens, you will miss issues of all magazines for the period that your account is on stop. We hope this will not happen, but given our tight margins and commitment to pay the magazine publishers promptly (and they are often walking a financial tightrope, like ourselves and yourselves) we have to be fairly rigorous about our terms!

 

It is always worth while keeping a regular check on sales and increasing or decreasing your standing orders as necessary, please click here to email any amendments. 

We look forward to a trouble free trading relationship and if you have an account with Central Books you can also buy the books we distribute [on a 9 months see safe basis], click here for our on-line ordering pages for books and magazines.


Shipping

Many overseas customers have their own shippers or consolidators,  we will deliver to your chosen shipper's UK warehouse for free. If you do not have a shipper we can recommend one or arrange postage at your cost. 

 

If you have queries about your magazine supplies you can email the magazine department magazines@centralbooks.com or the accounts department accounts@centralbooks.com.