It will be a little while before I can attend to estimates, but the Diamond charts for October have been released (story at Newsarama). Usually in October I can make a good projection as to the overall year, but 2008 versus 2007 so far is looking like a very close-run thing, so we’ll have to … Read more
And here are the comics sales charts for September, with my estimates. Same-day — that doesn’t happen often! Orders from the comics direct market, composed of all the comics specialty shops in North America, were up for the month across all categories — and up for the quarter and year in the widest category and … Read more
I am pleased to report that, website problems mostly past, my sales estimates for August 2008 are now online. This is working out to be a year where we’re doing slightly worse than last year most months in the periodical categories; but slightly ahead most months in the trade paperbacks — and then when the … Read more
And now pages have been uploaded for all the months of 2008 that had been on the site before our crash, running from January 2008 to July 2008. This leaves (besides August 2008, currently being generated) everything before 2008 — which should be able to be added to the site much faster than was the … Read more
by John Jackson Miller Updated! As I surmised last month, June 2008 comics sales in the direct market had an easier time in comparison with June 2007 sales, in part thanks to the second best trade paperback month recorded among Diamond’s Top 100 Trade Paperbacks. While ground was still lost in the narrower categories (such … Read more
by John Jackson Miller Updated 6/19: OK, some technical difficulties past, you can find the tables with sales estimates for May 2008 here. My guess at total market size earlier this week was based on a file Diamond distributed to the media that mistakenly included the April market shares under the banner for May; once … Read more