by John Jackson Miller One of my various hobby projects has been helping Maggie Thompson get her fanzine library established on her new MaggieThompson.com site. Harbinger #1 and Comic Art #1 from 1960 and 1961 respectively are there — and now, she’s posted the first ten issues of Newfangles from 1967 and 1968. Scan quality … Read more
by John Jackson Miller In a rare move, Diamond has done a full rerelease of statistics for January, addressing some of the curiosities noted in earlier posts below. Click to see my new calculations for January. It does appear Diamond included some orders in their initial report that aren’t in this one; unless they’re absolutely … Read more
by John Jackson Miller Continuing with the topic below of Nielsen’s Bookscan and its sales charts, an interesting post just up about its sister Soundscan top-seller lists — and how they set it up so that backlist items wouldn’t creep back up into the top-seller lists. As this is a case of them publishing sales … Read more
by John Jackson Miller In a post about the publication of sales figures on Heidi MacDonald’s blog, she brought up a number of ways that they do matter, above and beyond serving as water-cooler (really web) discussion fodder for fans. It recalled to me one of the reasons I thought it would be interesting to … Read more
by John Jackson Miller The comics industry saw its seventh consecutive year of increased sales to comics shops in 2007. Sales to retailers increased in every category tracked, including comic book units, which rose 4% to their highest level since 1997. Overall, Diamond Comic Distributors‘ sales of comic books and trade paperbacks to comics shops … Read more