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The big picture: Bookscan, comics shops, and a $680 million year

As in past years, Brian Hibbs has gotten access to the actual sales for trade paperbacks and graphic novels in 2011 as recorded by Bookscan, a service of Nielsen. I encourage readers to take a look at Hibbs’s article and see how the figures break down. Bookscan draws upon cash-register data from many member bookstores … Read more

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2000 for 2011: Top 1000 Comics and Top 1000 Trades, with Comichron estimates

  Diamond Comic Distributors has released its lists of Top Comics and Top Trade Paperbacks and graphic novels for 2011, and as I did the last two years I have combined that information with my own estimates of aggregated sales of comics and trades throughout the year and other information to project longer lists, with … Read more

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Diamond releases Top 10s, market shares for 2011

And in advance of the release of the larger lists for 2011, Diamond has released the Top 10 Comic Books and Trade Paperbacks of the year, plus the market shares. The Top 10 Comics for the year are not surprisingly dominated by the DC relaunch: RANK DESCRIPTION PRICE PUBLISHER 1 Justice League #1 $3.99 DC … Read more

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Retailers bought at least 3 million more comics in 2011

  Diamond Comic Distributors has released the full report for last month, and it completes the picture for the year for comics sales to North American comics shops. Click to see the sales estimates for December 2011. As reported here on Friday, sales of periodical comics to comics shops went up during the year: sales … Read more

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More comics sold in 2011, but trade weakness contributes to slightly off year

It was close — very close. Comic books did what they were expected to do in December — but trade paperback novels do what they often do in December, resulting in overall comic book and trade paperback dollar orders finishing 2011 down by less than 1%, according to Diamond Comic Distributors. Click to see the … Read more

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November 2011 finds comics unit sales up 26% post-relaunch

As reported here on Friday, Diamond Comic Distributors has released figures showing that the Direct Market is into positive territory for 2011. You can find more details on what this moment means for the market here, but a few additional observations come out in looking at the complete table of estimates.  Click to see the … Read more

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