Bookazine adds manga to TWE
The manga onslaught continues, as PW reports that the 800-900 outlet strong Trans World Entertainment chain had contracted with wholesaler Bookazine to add manga...
More on retailing evolution
A few updates on the Diamond POS/bar code story that's been bubbling under for a few weeks now.
Steven Grant is big enough to admit...
Drawn & Quarterly is opening a store!
Details via the D&Q blog -- apparently it is the kind of place where a golden afternoon light always shines, as earnest folk in...
Sales charts and barcodes redux
Updates on two stories that are really frosting the ass of the internet these days:
§ Marc Oliver Frisch reacts to the reactions to his...
More on barcodes
Ah, and speaking of barcodes, Scott King runs the letter Diamond has sent to their vendors:
Dear Vendor:
Please be advised, that, effective for product shipping...
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...
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...
