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
by John Jackson Miller November orders for the comics industry slipped versus the same month last year for comic books, but were up strongly for trade paperbacks. Sales figures for the month appear here. Unit and dollar sales for the Top 300 comics were down 13% and 12% respectively; this November had four shipping weeks … Read more
by John Jackson Miller Comics sales soared in the October 2007 report. A major factor in comparisons this month was the five week month; the same month in 2006 was a four-week month. DC led market share categories for the first time in many months, in part due to landing 107 items in the Top … Read more
by John Jackson Miller The September numbers for Diamond’s sales of comic books to comic book stores in North America are up, and the market continues toward a strong year with positive third-quarter results across all categories. TOP 300 UNIT SALES6.69 million copies, up 1% from same month last year 3Q: 22.03 million copies, up … Read more