Borders to pushing music and DVD suppliers to change their trading terms, Billboard reports. “At the best, it wants vendors to go to scan-based trading payment terms, which means paying for product when it is sold…or it wants 365-days ‘dating,’ the term for payment scheduling. At the least, it wants more dating for slower moving titles. Sources say Borders is giving vendors about 10 days to come back to the chain with proposals. Borders plans a similar move for video, although its slightly less drastic than its plans for music.” (NB that a fight over scan-based trading is part of […]
