More Disney layoffs: ESPN sheds hundreds
Disney continues its road to profitability by cutting staff, this time at ESPN, where as many as 400 people lost their jobs in a...
But if you are trying to buy Eisner Award nominated book in a comics...
In a note to his fellow retailers giving them Diamond codes for this year's Eisner nominees, Brian Hibbs made a rather interesting discovery: Diamond has only 59% of the 101 individual SKUs in stock. Meanwhile, Baker & Taylor, the world's biggest book distributor, has 83% of them in stock.
Today’s money breakdown from the Penny Arcade Report: paying for journalism with panty shots
The Penny Arcade Report is a video game news and commentary site run by....well, we'll let you figure it out. Yesterday editor Ben Kuchera ran down the economics of running a website in dollars and cents. Although he's talking about video games, it all applies equally to comics journalism:
Comics…it was the worst of times
In the Brian Hibbs column I quoted in my previous post, he also wrote this:
We also live in an industry where a significant number...
Comics: it was the Best of Times…
There is a happy feeling in general when comics folks get together these days. Oh, there may be the occasional digital kerfuffle, and DC...
Is Ike-ification hitting all of Disney?
Have Ike Perlmutter's penny-pinching ways spread to all of Disney?
Weekly news wrap-up: Catalyst, Red Giant, Superman
Instead of Kibbles 'n' bits, we present a bunch of things I had tagged that I never got to write up in all the excitement. The news never sleeps!
Saga #12 rewrites the books
The matter of "Who censored Saga #12?" has been termed a fiasco by some, and that's probably the right word. While I certainly didn't...
Must read shocker: There is still a US Manga industry
Brigid Alverson shows us how it's done in this comprehensive report on the state of the US manga market. The big shock is that despite sales shrinkage since the boom years, it's still a relatively stable market:
Can creators really get their books back from Tokyopop?
We've been covering the sometimes glorious, sometimes ignominious history of Tokyopop for as long as there has been a Beat. Although its biggest legacy...
Court rules digital resales are a no-no
Can you sell "used" digital copies of books and music? You used to be able to via services such as ReDigi which allowed you...
Madefire teams with deviantART for more motion comics
Madefire—the VC-funded IoS-based comics starter— and DeviantART, the 7th largest social network on the internet, have teamed up to share art and technology.
Madefire...
