CBR: Diamond Raises Order Benchmarks for Publishers

[CBR News]

In a move that will have a significant and negative effect on small publishers,
Diamond Comic Distributors is increasing its order minimums from $1,500 to
$2,500. CBR's new blog ROBOT 6 has all the details.


Full article here (http://comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=19601).

[Sir Tim Drake]

Gee, thanks for supporting small publishers, Diamond. :mad:

[Brandon Hanvey]

We also have a discussion of this issue going on the Indie forum.

http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=253559

[WW Doctor]

As I said over in the indie forum, say hello to $4 comics across the board just so the smaller publishers can make this new threshold number. You might even see $5 comics in some cases.

Agree with you, Tim Drake. Thanks a lot, Diamond!

[DonC]

So, last time this caused Claypool Comics to stop publishing their books. (Deadbeats continued online.) Who's next?

[Tadhg]

If an Indie publisher can't get by with Diamond's new requirements they should look at Haven(Formerly Cold Cut) or distributing personally. It's not like many of Diamond's customers support Indie Comics anyway.

[stingerman]

CosmicBookNews.com did an interview with Blue Water Productions Publisher, Darren Davis, on the subject:

http://www.cosmicbooknews.com/ddinterview