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Brian Miller
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Did you have Previews to look thru? Most readers of the readers then didn't. It's available even now, but you would be suprised at how many people don't know about it or choose not to go thru it month to month.
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Michael Hatton
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"The number of sales of a book that was on
the chopping block twenty-five to thirty years ago was a solid seller ten-
fifteen years ago, and now is considered a hit. What does that tell you?"
It tells me that people are able to make money on smaller sales than
they used to. If not then all books would be cancelled.
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John Mietus
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Wow.
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Andrew Bitner
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I don't have any idea where the industry is today. I assume it's bad but I don't really know.
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Brian Miller
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By raising prices 5 times what you paid 20 years ago. It's not because of 22 different Batman books alone.
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John Mietus
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Matt Hawes, are you paying attention to this thread? How's your customer
base? Increasing or steadily decreasing? [edited to add] I know that my
local LCS owner says his comics readership is on a gradual downslide,
and that the only thing that keeps him solvent is that he diversified into
also being a gaming shop.
Edited by John Mietus on 25 August 2005 at 11:56am
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Michael Hatton
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It is a good time to be a customer you can get what you want if you want it. Thiswas not true 25 years ago.
You guys are worried that the whole thing will disappear, and that is
why you are worried about the customer base. But would you rather
it be like it is now for twenty more years are like it was 25 years ago
for twenty more years.
From a customer's point of view it would be better now.
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Trevor Giberson
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From my perspective: if there was only one Batman book, I'd buy it. Because there are a dozen, I don't buy any.
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Peter Hicks
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The comparison has been made that comic books are now fairly similar to jazz music, in that a great number of the people who are customers are also wannabe pros. Both comics and jazz were once prevalent forms of entertainment across all society, but now they each occupy only a niche.
The retailer who used to write the column for ICV2 once signed off by saying "Are comics dying? Maybe. But not in my store." That's a good approach for everybody, I think.
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Matthew Hansel
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If the industry stayed inthe same state for the next 20 years you would have to admit that is a lot of comics you could buy.
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Yeah...reprints of the OLD COMICS. The vast majority of my comic book budget, these days, is made up of buying reprints of stuff from the 1940s through the 1960s.
Matthew Hansel
matthewphansel@mac.com
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Brian Miller
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It is a good time to be a customer you can get what you want if you want it. Thiswas not true 25 years ago.
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Explain to me how this is easier now than 25 years ago.
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Rob Hewitt
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Internet, e-bay, comic shops, books shops, etc. make it far easier for people to get the books they want ojn a regular basis, without missing an issue, and any title or genre they want.
The lack of availability in normal stores, and other things, makes it arder for a casual reader or new reader.
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