Economic Report #2: Books not so hot
Yesterday's announcement that Borders was having a tough time coming up with financing for expansion and was contemplating a potential sale led to a...
Economic report #1: Toys okay
The San Jose Mercury News asks if the shaky economy could lead to slashes in sales for all those movie spinoff toys that are...
Borders on the block?
Jim Milliot at Publishers weekly is reporting that the Borders book chain has hired J.P. Morgan and Merrill Lynch to help them look...
February sales slump
The ICv2 charts same out yesterday, and for the second month in a row, things were down:
Comic and graphic novel dollar sales to comic...
Jeff and Vijaya’s busy day
Jeff Smith's blog comments on the comics' move to Warner Bros:
The whole thing happened very quickly last Friday night. Warners called and...
Cold Cut becomes Haven
Cold Cut Distribution, the largest comics-centric alternative to Diamond as a distributor, was recently acquired by a Chicago-based webcomics publisher, and the new owners...
Bits o’ DC news: LIARS trailer, Canadian pricing
§ DC has created an animated trailer for the new David Lapham book YOUNG LIARS. No direct embed but its in there.
§ DC...
Who has time to read 3,300 graphic novels?
In a promo for their new ICv2 Guide #52: Graphic Novels ICv2 offers a few stats:
...the number of graphic novels released in the...
Think Future GN panel video up
Speaking of PW AND videos, we have a new area for multi-media content, and one of the first is a video of last fall's...
UPDATE: The continuing obsession with sales figures
The Great Bookscan debate continues. Rich Johnston has helpfully leaked the actual chart so everyone can play along at home. ADD, Brian Hibbs and...
Updated: Boom gets $600k
It seems that Boom! Studios has joined the ranks of comics publishers getting a little VC pie: The Los Angeles company, officially known...
Bookscan revisited
We've been trying to collect our thoughts on Brian Hibbs 2007 Bookscan analysis all week but what with catching up on 500+ emails,...
