{"id":4664,"date":"2014-12-12T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-01T14:40:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T19:40:06","slug":"november-comics-orders-strong-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/12\/november-comics-orders-strong-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"November comics orders strong; 2014 sales projected to finish up 5%"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Retailer orders for comic books and graphic novels in November 2014 were reported this morning by Diamond Comic Distributors<\/b><\/a>, and the preliminary report finds overall sales were up for the sixth month in a row. Comic shops in North America ordered $45.7 million in print product in the month, up about $3.5 million, or 8.36% over last November. Both this November and last November had four shipping weeks.<\/p>\n

Both comics and graphic novels were up year-over-year in units and dollars. Comic book unit sales had been running slightly behind last year overall; November’s strong comic book sales brought the category almost to parity with last year’s total. A similar performance in December would mean all categories in 2014 would finish ahead of 2013.<\/p>\n

The month-to-month numbers were down from October’s blockbuster figures, though that month had one more sales week. The comparative sales statistics for November:<\/b><\/p>\n

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