The Diamond June 2009 order estimates are still in process, as I get pieces into place — but an increase in periodical sales year-over-year seems likely, along with a coincident drop in dollar orders for Diamond’s top-selling trade paperbacks. This is a combination that has occured in individual months before, and in one year overall … Read more
Diamond Comic Distributors released its top-seller charts reporting its sales to comics retailers in North America for the month of June today, and the June charts now appear on Comichron, along with some initial data massaging. (Publisher names have been identified, average prices have been calculated, and links have been established to Amazon sales rankings … Read more
Wall Street reports often speak of “market leadership” in tracking intraday rallies and slides; what’s happening with the big issues often drives the market. On the new comics racks, market leadership counts for even more — instead of thousands of stocks, we’re looking at a few hundred new issues each month. And as we’ve seen, … Read more
Diamond Comic Distributors has released its comics sales charts for May 2009, and while the actual estimates with copy counts will follow here shortly, you can see from the link that there’s an interesting change to the chart. Within the chart itself, Marvel’s New Avengers #53 led the list; there isn’t a new #1 until … Read more
Diamond Comic Distributors recently released its charts of comics and trade paperbacks ordered by retailers in April 2009, and as reported earlier, the market appears to have made up some of the ground lost in the first three months of 2009. Sales increases versus the previous year were observed in all categories, including, just barely, … Read more
The April 2009 analysis is almost finished (though the tables are online already), but in looking back through the historical numbers, I found something that sheds some light on a frequently asked question: What portion of new comics sales is outside the Top 300? The only way to know is to have a look at … Read more