{"id":4786,"date":"2014-01-10T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-01T15:07:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T20:07:47","slug":"december-comics-sales-close-2013-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/10\/december-comics-sales-close-2013-on\/","title":{"rendered":"December comics sales close 2013 on high note; another IDW market share record"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Diamond Comic Distributors <\/b>released the preliminary 2013 year-end data<\/b><\/a> on Wednesday; now, it has added the closing chapter of the sales year with the preliminary sales report for December<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Retailers ordered $42.22 million in comic books and graphic novels in December, a sum almost identical to that of November. Less than $9,000, or the sales of a single issue of a 400th-place title, separated November and December’s orders. But last December was weaker than last November, so the result was an uptick in the year-to-year percentage change: the direct market ordered nearly 6% more dollars worth of comics and graphic novels this December than last December.<\/p>\n

Orders for the fourth quarter totaled $134.79 million in comics and graphic novels, more than a million dollars better than the third quarter and an improvement of more than $6 million over the fourth quarter of 2012. Since the third quarter was already a record for the Diamond Exclusive Era, the fourth quarter represents the highest dollar value for a quarter, unadjusted for inflation, since the early 1990s.<\/p>\n

The resulting sales for the year came in at around $517.66 million, which as reported earlier this week is an increase of 9% over last year’s figure of $474.45 million.<\/p>\n

The percentage change statistics:<\/p>\n

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