I mentioned below a census I ran on all Diamond products that shipped in 1997; it may shed some light on the number of publishers who, at least at the beginning of the Diamond Exclusive Era, had access to the system. Using the shipping lists and cancellation lists from every week in 1997, the staff … Read more
Completing its roundup of 2008, Diamond Comic Distributors has released its rankings for its Top 300 Comics and Top 300 trade paperbacks for the year, as well as final market shares. And, just as it’s doing now on a monthly basis, it released a Top 50 Independent list for the year — independent meaning all … 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