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By: Johanna

Johanna — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:39:35 +0000

Based on my single point of example (a co-worker), those media fans aren’t interested in buying anything else. :) I hope you’ve had better luck converting some to the medium instead of just the property.

By: Brian Hibbs

Brian Hibbs — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:18:54 +0000

Based on what “new to comics” civilians say and do when they walk through my doors, I’d have to say that “collection buyers with no interest in periodicals” is a subset of EXISTING comics readers, not people who are coming to the form for the first time.

As far as I can tell, “new to comics” people are open to either collection or serialization, depending on their level of interest in the work itself — where do you think those 100k+ people who are buying the current BUFFY series are coming from? (Or DARK TOWER, for that matter)

-B

By: Johanna

Johanna — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:49:45 +0000

Sure, but you would… collection buyers with no interest in periodicals have a lot of other options: bookstores, online stores, and so on. It’s kind of self-selecting.

By: Brian Hibbs

Brian Hibbs — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:30:19 +0000

“It all comes down to how much overlap you assume there is between periodical and collection buyers”

All I’ll say is that, as a working retailer, I see a whole lot.

-B

By: Tim O'Shea

Tim O'Shea — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 03:40:56 +0000

OK, I love that Gordon Lee hopping on the hood story. Here’s hoping the wheels of justice continue to roll in his favor this week.

By: Jamie Coville

Jamie Coville — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:13:32 +0000

Whoops! I didn’t see the last link.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:08:15 +0000

Isn’t that just what I posted, that those people were in the comments at his site?

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:03:38 +0000

Re: Court Records.

If someone alleges that he was taken to a federal court, that would be easy to look up (http://pacer.psc.uscourts.gov, which is free to register and cheap to look at case documents).

Because it is reportedly a small claims court case, it would more likely be in a state court system. If I remember correctly, Silver Bullet is in North Carolina, and a quick look at the N.C. court system Web site doesn’t turn up easy access to docket listings for any particular county .
Further complicating the issue is that the alleged lawsuit was a small claims suit. Those are generally handled much less formally, so the records are less available. The easiest thing to do might be to call the Forsyth County Court at the number for the Small Claims Magistrate, and ask about getting a copy of a judgment.

Numbers for the County Court are on this page: http://www.co.forsyth.nc.us/courtinfo.aspx

By: Jamie Coville

Jamie Coville — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:44:22 +0000

The real back and forth discussion over Hibbs column is happening at Hibbs site, where he posted a response. After that, Chris Butcher, Tom Spurgeon and Stuart Moore give their views. Some good reading there.

http://www.haloscan.com/comments/lazybastid/8076725184698577803/