More on comics sales charts
While we know readers love our comparative sales charts compiled monthly by Paul O'Brien and Marc-Oliver Frisch, we also know not everyone is a fan.
Several professionals have suggested in the comments section and...
More on barcodes
A couple more people speaking out on Diamond's new mandatory barcode decree:
§ From the retail perspective, Neptune Comics' Lisa:
Diamond primarily makes changes to benefit themselves - they have no competition so there is little...
Diamond on Barcodes, etc.
The subject of Diamond-carried publishers has been a hot topic of late here on The Beat, and while we hear that official notification is forthcoming to publishers, we thought we'd go to the source...
Publishers react to bar code decree
As reported last week, Diamond will now require bar codes on all the products it carries -- a concession to the looming reality of POS systems and barcode scanners. A couple of publishers talked...
Countdown’s secret!
Some online comics sales watchers -- and we know there are a LOT of you -- have wondered about why COUNTDOWN suddenly surged in the charts this month with the thirteenth issue. Spurge...
Highwaymen continues to perplex
Sometimes it just takes an honest question to bring out honest answers. Writer Marc Bernadin's frank questioning over the relative sales failure of his Wildstorm mini-series The Highwaymen has got a lot of people...
Icv2 chats with Dan Buckley
ICv2 continues its annual check ins with the heavy hitters of comics with a four part yakfest with Marvel publisher Dan Buckley (with added kibitzing by David Gabriel). Of all the heavy hitters, Buckley...
Bernadin asks…WHY?
Journalist/comics scribe Marc Bernadin looks at the sub-10,000 copies sales of his Wildstorm mini THE HIGHWAYMEN and wonders why it sold poorly:
Did we not spread the word adequately? I'd like to think we did....
The merchant class
While the comics medium advances in prestige and material success both in fairly dramatic leaps and encouraging steps , physically moving things around and getting people to reach into their pants pockets, find money...
West Coast Secret Stash closes
Kevin Smith explains he's closing his west coast comics shop and runs through a gallery of memories:
Part of the charm of those stores, for the fans of the flicks (and, largely,...
A little bit more on DC/RH
A couple of people drew our attention to the following quote from Paul Levitz's interview with Newsarama on DC going with Random House for their book distribution.
"There’s a combination of things that we think...
DC Comics in distro pact with Random House
MEANWHILE, ever since Time Warner sold off its book biz to Hachette, people have been wondering who would be distributing DC's book line. Well wonder no more, the winner is book giant Random House:
Paul...
