{"id":5927,"date":"2008-10-25T06:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T06:09:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-28T03:08:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T03:08:43","slug":"fortune-comics-alive-and-kicking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/25\/fortune-comics-alive-and-kicking\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortune: Comics “alive and kicking”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I only caught this now, but Fortune<\/span> has an article on “old-fashioned [comics] publishing” <\/a>and how it’s helping Marvel. A lot of interesting numbers here.<\/p>\n

A favorable piece \u2014 though there is that line that comics shops are “one of the most archaic distribution systems in existence.” One might note to the author that those shops arose to replace a certain distribution system that’s even older: the traditional newsstand, which is where most copies of Fortune<\/span> are sold, come to think of it…<\/p>\n

[Edit: Of course, by “copies sold” I mean to say single copies \u2014 not subscription copies. Although increasingly, subscriptions at mass-market magazines doesn’t mean direct revenue, either, given all the promotional subs out there. Newsweek, which I have handy, reported 87% paid in its Statement this week, as compared with most comics, which are in the high 90s. I’d be interested in seeing the trendline for that stat.]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I only caught this now, but Fortune has an article on “old-fashioned [comics] publishing” and how it’s helping Marvel. A lot of interesting numbers here. A favorable piece \u2014 though there is that line that comics shops are “one of the most archaic distribution systems in existence.” One might note to the author that those … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-5927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-media-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5928,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927\/revisions\/5928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}