Comments on: Diamond Agrees to Ship What It Offers http://comicsworthreading.com/2010/01/28/diamond-agrees-to-ship-what-it-offers/ Independent Opinions on Comics of All Kinds Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:45:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Johanna http://comicsworthreading.com/2010/01/28/diamond-agrees-to-ship-what-it-offers/comment-page-1/#comment-108733 Johanna Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:03:50 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/?p=10498#comment-108733 You could get a VERY rough estimate by examining the cancellation lists. Code 3 is “Cancelled by Previews”. That was rarely seen before the policy change and appeared much more frequently afterwards. I believe books that never shipped because they didn’t meet the sales minimum fell in this category.

As your experience shows, it was a self-fulfilling prophecy and a vicious circle. Books in trouble couldn’t get out of it because of customer uncertainty.

]]> By: Ed Sizemore http://comicsworthreading.com/2010/01/28/diamond-agrees-to-ship-what-it-offers/comment-page-1/#comment-108730 Ed Sizemore Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:07:21 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/?p=10498#comment-108730 I’d love to see some hard figures on how much business was lost when Diamond changed policies. Also, once the policy was enforced would like to see how small press publishers never got their books shipped. Of course, Diamond is never going to release that data.

I’m glad to see Diamond go back to their old policy. I know that I stopped ordering from a couple of small press manga publishers because I didn’t know if the titles would make minimum.

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