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One other thing that I forgot to mention in the piece is that "A series of mini-series" is the WORST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS.

See, what happens with POS systems is that they track "series" by an...

Or how about this one: this is a page of old concert tickets... scroll down and you can see a Rolling Stones show for $9.50 in 1975. The new Stones show here in SF has the cheapest seats at a...

New Adults. Lots (and lots!) of new KIDS. The "old readers returning" happened a lot around the launch of the New52, and *some* of those stuck around as we showed them the range of comics available...

Huh. So it is.

Well, all I can say is that it doesn't look like that in my Master. I know this column is an EXTREME pain for Stephen and Jonah to format, and something must have got lost. ...

Hi, Ruwan

Am I correct in assuming this is Ruwan Jayatilleke, Associate Publisher of Marvel? If so, you may want to change your account's name to make this clearer. I believe that CBR can also...

I think that this is over thinking a great deal of the problem -- I think the more likely culprits are no clear reading order tied with $25-40 price points.

-B

It was observed to me by a third party that for a good part of 2012 Barnes & Noble was not stocking the "top 100" DC Comics, which I entirely forgot about in my BookScan 2012 report.

There are...

Yeah, you kinda can't link to that piece and not ALSO link to Jim's chart on Digital sales:

http://www.jimzub.com/?p=2066


For your other thought: there really isn't any money whatsoever in...

Obviously, I have no way of knowing if people don't like the iVerse interface, or don't want to manage multiple solutions, or if they simply just aren't interested in digital comics as a mass -- what...

Our books are delivered by truck (We're the drop point for the City of San Francisco) -- the truck doesn't show until about 3 PM or so. If we did not have DED, as your suggestion, we would receive...

Because we'd be breaking street date -- we are NOT allowed to sell comics before the "prevailing time" in our market -- currently, that is 10 AM.

Perhaps more importantly, we PAY a weekly fee to...

The first thing I want to state is that those of you who think that this is about digital are, in fact, wrong -- this column is about being lying to over very specific promises when the circumstances...

I'm *not* talking about DM data -- I'm talking about all other print markets. 20 years ago people said "If only we could get into the book market, all of our problems would be solved!". So, we're in...

The "why" is because comics-industry-specific data is showing that it ISN'T the case, regardless of "precedent" -- the current audience appears to prefer print, and the "new" audience has shown only...

If that's what you think the article says... well, man, I don't know what to say. Yessss, GNs are up, as a percentage a much larger percentage than comics *this particular reporting period*, but...

So... I'm dreamed the headline "Graphic Novels up 53.9% in October; Over-all Up 19.5%"?

I certainly know that this last Saturday in my store, of the 48 transactions I did, only about 9 of them...

Yeah, except that gross aggregate sales are UP, as is the volume of the best-selling books.

So... not.

-B

When you're moving from $0 to some dollars, it would be pretty insane if it DIDN'T have 2-300% growth for a few years.

However, DC and Marvel executives have been clear, when pressed, that they...

Whoopty-fricking-do.

$75m? DM sales, as-reported-by-Diamond alone are $394m (http://www.comichron.com)

Add the $176m we know from BookScan...

"like"

-B

In the 80s and early 90s, as I said in the article, I wouldn't order less than 10 copies of ANYthing that Marvel published -- Star comics, or whatever. And they sold.

Obviously, I want to sell my...

Yeah, you're wrong. Epicly so, in fact.

There's a really good reason that Marvel and DC don't reveal digital sales figures -- and that's because they're just a fraction of print sales, and, more...

If we're talking subs-only titles, then, yes, sure, "easy money", no effort -- but I can say that as a reasonably large metropolitan retailer I always die inside a little every time a book goes...

The latter, though every editor is clearly going to say that of course their books are critical darlings!



Honestly, it's time for HELLBLAZER to end -- we DO do (very) well with the trades, and...

For clarity, using MOBY (which is NOT Diamond's ComicSuite), I, of course, can pare down the results (at least in the cases where Diamond properly codes things) -- but it takes an additional step in...