I’ve written about this before, but as I can see it will be relevant in the estimates for 2008, here’s a quick overview of how the Overall Comics, Trade Paperbacks, and Magazine Dollar Sales statistic used here is calculated. Unlike the data work most commonly done with the Diamond Top Sellers charts, this measure does … Read more
Still churning on the end-of-year analysis, but in the meantime, I was a guest recently for a wide-ranging ComicBookPage podcast with John Mayo and Bob Bretall. It’s actually a “Super Fan Spotlight,” getting into my personal collecting interests and comics and fiction writing — but as John and I both track the same numbers in … Read more
Diamond’s Vice President of Purchasing Bill Schanes talked to Newsarama about the changes to the purchase order minimums, confirming the basic math discussed here earlier and my own assumtpions about they whys and wherefores coming from Diamond’s side. Every item, or SKU, a distributor carries has an attached maintenance cost on their end, not limited … Read more
This is a triple-whammy of a month for the sales reports — December plus end-of-quarter plus end-of-year — and there’s a whole bunch of tables on the way. The monthly analysis is taking longer than usual as a result, but the wheels are still turning. Stay tuned — some interesting stuff ahead…
This is an overdue note, but a bit of comics circulation history came to a close with the publication of the December 2008 Diamond Dialogue retailer magazine. It was the second retailer magazine of any staying power — after Capital’s Internal Correspondence — and it was the last monthly left after the folding of Comics … Read more
I had mentioned earlier the piece where a California newspaper built interviews with a comics shop owner into part of a series on the recession — making, the retailer said, a year of sales growth seem like a year of declines. Which brings us to California’s biggest paper, the Los Angeles Times — and today’s … Read more