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Bill Collins
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I stopped buying physical comics nearly 2 years ago,i now buy just J.B. trades and Omnibus`s.Since getting a tablet late last year i have been downloading from Comixology via the company i used to get my physical comics from when i was a mail order customer.I assume that by going via the store,that they get a cut of what i pay?(I hope so as i was a happy ustomer for nearly 20 years)I must admit that browsing the new releases on a Wednesday from the comfort of my sofa has lead me to try comics i wouldn`t normally buy either because i liked the sample pages or a cheap price that enticed me to investigate.
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Thomas Moudry
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Bill,
I'm slowly giving in to the lure of digital comics. I've been reading Gail
Simone's Red Sonja and Greg Pak's Turok and really enjoying them.
You're right: it's a great way to find things you might not otherwise have
tried.
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Brian Miller
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I bet Chuck doesn't have a problem being the only vendor to have special Mile High Comics variant covers from Marvel to sell at the conventions.
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Stephen Churay
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I would love to sit down with Tom Brevoort about Marvel's sales
model. No mud slinging, no name calling, just to understand why they
do what they do.
The publisher con exclusives taking money away from retailers, if a
problem, is small. It just makes me sad to see ComicCon become less
and less about comics. But, I do think that many publishers are slitting
the throats of there retailers. The publishing models don't make sense
to me. It doesn't seem to me that it maximizes the publisher's ability
for profit nor the retailer's.
Mr. Hawes would know better than I, but how many copies do you
have to sell of a particular issue, using the current discount structure
and factoring in a percentage of overhead, before it becomes
profitable to continue carrying the title on the stand, on a monthly
basis? I'm guessing somewhere between five and eight copies. I
would think that selling at least 10 copies of every title would be the
goal. Well, some titles by issue three won't sell even five. If a shop
buys five copies of an issue, sells two, and this happens on 10
different titles, he's losing his ass. Back issues and variants, I'm sure
soften the blow, but it shouldn't have to be that way.
Would Marvel and DC maintain there overall sales if they cut there
publishing down to 25-35 titles from the 80-110 titles they publish on a
monthly basis? At 25 titles, would those reading titles that were
canceled decide to read the entire line? Would publishing fewer titles,
even with much higher print runs, bring lower costs to the publisher?
Would such a move by the Big Two help retailers become more
profitable?
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Stephen Robinson
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I also wonder if comics publishers will move to a "print
on demand" model, which Amazon has done for independent
publishing. A big obstacle to publishing (all forms of
books) in the past was that you had to print a certain
amount of copies (printers often had a minimum), get
those copies to retailers, and deal with the storage of
books you didn't sell. POD changed independent book
publishing completely (for good or for ill) because
there's very little overhead required. And you don't have
to worry about getting bookstores to carry your stock --
you can direct potential buyers to Amazon, arguably the
biggest retailer in the world.
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Bill Collins
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Thinning the herd would probably help(The `throw enough s*** and some of it will stick approach has definitely affected quality),as a kid i bought nearly the entire Marvel line on Saturday job money,nowadays i couldn`t afford to buy nearly the entire line on decent full time wages,the problem is,i have no desire to buy more than one Marvel title(Alan Davis`s Hulk) as none of the line appeals to me character or storywise.
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William Costello
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I think a subsequent e-mail from Chuck R. indicates he would attend the 2015 San Diego Comic Con, despite the concerns in his original e-mail blast.
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Fred J Chamberlain
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... makes for good publicity though, don't it? ;)
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Geoffrey Langford
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Chuck Rozanski (spelling) is always complaining about something in his weekly newletters. Seriously.
Go back and read his letters, they're on his site. 90% of the time he begins with some downer point about something and then somehow wraps it into his reason for offering 40% off his comics he's priced up 60%.
Chuck has made a fortune from attending San Diego con. I feel bad for the vendors that the main convention floor is pushing them out -- maybe all the comic vendors need to move OFF the floor to a cheaper location nearby and allow comic-book commerce to find it's market at a new location? I don't feel bad for Chuck that he took one for the team this year. As noted, he gets exclusive Mile High covers all year cutting out the other vendors in the market -- but he wants to bitch about the Marvel booth selling exclusives at a convention one time during the year...?!?!
Maybe the big muscle dude who looked like Lou Feringo was frightening people away from the Mile High booth this year?
:-)
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