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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Graphic novel sales figures in focus — UPDATED
For those of you who haven't been glued to the computer, there has been a bit of a comment war raging here on the...
