Comments on: Boom! Does Books

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 23:06:29 +0000

Another followup: The latest Comics Journal, #283, has a piece called “Deceptive Data: How Diamond Best-Seller Lists Distort the Comics Industry” that tackles the same issue from a different perspective.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:59:53 +0000

I believe you’re referring to this column — and my favorite part is his disclaimer: “I strongly encourage you to look at the BookScan numbers on your own and make your own conclusions — I’m trying to be balanced and fair, but, of course, I have huge bookshelves worth of biases I’m dragging around with me, and your analysis might be more correct than my own.”

It’s a very dense column, one with lots of elements.

By: Charles RB

Charles RB — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:43:56 +0000

“other types of comics sell better in bookstores”

That said, I remember earlier in the year when Brian Hibbs did a sales analysis of last year’s sales which showed titles like Y: The Last Man and Pride of Bahgdad selling more in the direct market than in bookstores. Now, I’d have thought it’d be the other way round.

By: Guy LeCharles Gonzalez

Guy LeCharles Gonzalez — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:38:49 +0000

…a good creator-control deal that demands in-print or return-to-creator status will allow properties to live on.

There’s at least two print-on-demand companies I know of who are targeting publishers for their services expressly for the purpose of keeping their books “in print” forever. The increasing technological evolution and acceptance of POD by traditional publishers is going to challenge those exisitng deals and future contracts will need to be written to specifically address that loophole.