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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2019 10:45:00 GMT -5
Will Nielsen Bookscan start tracking comic book sales?March 9, 2019 By Michael Kozlowski Nielsen is one of the gold standards of tracking the retail side of the bookselling industry. Whenever an ISBN has been flagged as sold, Nielsen tracks this information and gives us a sense on how many books are being sold. The company can also track ebook sales on a limited basis, but indie authors are often not accounted for because they don’t use real ISBN numbers. Nielsen might start branching out and start tracking the comic book market. Representatives of the company recently attended ComicsPRO summit in North Carolina and there are rumors that by 2020 the company wills start reporting comic sales.
Nielsen BookScan was launched in January 2001, switching to NPD in 2016, and was the first to publish numbers rather than the rankings of the New York Times Best Seller list. Comics doesn’t have anyone reporting the industry numbers, just rankings from Diamond and ComiXology, and estimates from ICV2 and ComicChron that publishers repeatedly state are always underestimates.
If Nielsen got into the comic book business it would finally give the industry concrete figures. This would not only include cash register sales but also online sales too.goodereader.com/blog/digital-comic-news/will-nielsen-bookscan-start-tracking-comic-book-sales
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Post by terryallenuk on Mar 16, 2019 13:34:01 GMT -5
That would be a great idea , finally see how things are really doing.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2019 16:37:21 GMT -5
The Return of Marvel Overships…Words by Rich Johnston Once upon a time, Marvel Comics regularly overshipped certain titles. The idea was that comic book retailers were a ‘small-c’ conservative lot and ordered what they thought they could sell. Overshipping was intended to give retaikers to opportunity to discover that maybe they could sell a few more and so they would up their orders for subsequent issues. Or maybe engage in passing free samples on to customers, and get some more orders for future issues as a result. It also had the side-benefit of upping Marvel’s numbers in Diamond Comic Distributor’s monthly statistics. For unit ranking and market share at least, if not for dollar ranking and market share. Bleeding Cool first reported on Marvel doing this back in 2012 and it came and went sporadically since. When it happened, again and again, we ran articles about it. But it hasn’t happened to any statistically significant degree for a couple of years now. For a time some agenda-driven folk decided that Marvel’s overshipping was being used just to get revamped versions of characters, especially if they now starring female, BAME or gay characters, into stores that couldn’t sell them, and to make their sales figures look better than they were. Rather than the actual intent of encouraging sampling – and ignoring that the biggest recipents of Marvel’s overshipping were the biggest selling titles. Well, now it seems that overshipping is back.
Retailers who ordered Daredevil #3 will receive an additional 50% of their order, for free.
Retailers who ordered Invaders #3 will receive an additional 50% of their order, for free.
And retailers who ordered Marvel Comics Presents #3 will receive an additional 50% of their order, for free.
All will arrive in the 27th of March. What they’ll do with their additional copies is up to them.
www.bleedingcool.com/2019/03/21/return-marvel-overships/?utm_medium=ppc&utm_source=onesignal&utm_campaign=general&utm_content=PN
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Post by terryallenuk on Mar 22, 2019 13:48:49 GMT -5
Marvel flooding the market even more. Must be trying to kill off the opposition!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2019 15:22:35 GMT -5
The Best-Selling Comic Of 2019 Will Be Called Asterix And The Chieftain’s Daughter….words by Rich Johnston Bonjour, I’m currently at Parc Asterix, an hour north-east of Paris, for the launch of the new Asterix album by Jean–Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad, supervised by Asterix co-creator Albert Uderzo.This is Asterix’s sixtieth year, it is the Parc’s thirtieth year and this, the 38th Asterix album will be the best-selling comic book in the world this year. It is almost guaranteed. They have to buy up all the warehouses and printers available to perform such a mammoth task. Over five million hardcovers in numerous languages all across the world.
Wanna read more? www.bleedingcool.com/2019/04/10/the-best-selling-comic-of-2019-will-be-called-asterix-and-the-chieftains-daughter/
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2019 11:51:48 GMT -5
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Post by Jason Aiken on Apr 28, 2019 13:17:25 GMT -5
It's the same reason we don't all sit around the radio listening to olde time radio shows every evening, it's an obsolete entertainment medium.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2019 13:31:21 GMT -5
It's the same reason we don't all sit around the radio listening to olde time radio shows every evening, it's an obsolete entertainment medium. Yeah, Marvel and DC have been doing the same thing for around 30 years now. If distribution is the problem, then make comic books available wherever you can pick up any other monthly magazine/periodical magazine (it's obviously not working with Diamond); if all the other magazines can do it in the English speaking world, so can Marvel and DC. If they wanna go down the Original Graphic Novel route, just do it! Change the pay structure for the creators instead of ripping them off after the sales they make from Direct Market.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2019 13:59:26 GMT -5
I apologize in advance for the rant.
But where are the modern inspirational artists in the Comic book industry?
Back in the day artists like Jack Kirby, John Buscema, Neal Adams, John Byrne and even a moderately contemporary artist like Jim Lee inspired an entire generation of wannabe artists to meticulously emulate or gain inspiration from their work. Name one artist in the comic industry today that can inspire the same kinda devotion or inspiration for a young upcoming artist?
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2019 13:50:41 GMT -5
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Post by terryallenuk on May 5, 2019 15:26:37 GMT -5
What surprises me is it doesn't appear as if digital sales have hardly changed over the years.
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Post by Jason Aiken on May 5, 2019 16:09:43 GMT -5
I wonder how much lower the comic shop numbers would be if Marvel and DC didn't flood the market with bi-weekly books and other tricks.
I went to FCBD at my lcs yesterday and it was nuts how many kids were there for free comics. It looked to be about a 50/50 of people who actually spent money and those who just took the free shit.
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Post by terryallenuk on May 6, 2019 1:31:38 GMT -5
Yes it's sad how comics have gone from on-going stories of quality that readers invested their time in to the now continual cross-overs/events. There's hardly a gap between them now.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2019 11:58:10 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2019 1:59:41 GMT -5
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