{"id":5938,"date":"2008-10-20T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-28T03:08:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T03:08:53","slug":"bulletin-september-third-quarter-ytd-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/20\/bulletin-september-third-quarter-ytd-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulletin: September, Third Quarter, YTD up overall for comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still putting together the Diamond estimates for September 2008 \u2014 but I can convey now that based on the numbers I have in, the Overall category (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">all<\/span> comics, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">all<\/span> trade paperbacks, and <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">all<\/span> magazines sold to retailers by Diamond) is up for the month, the third quarter, and the year to date. The estimates:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">September 2008 Overall: $35.11 million<\/span><br \/>+7% over September 2007&#8217;s $32.68 million<br \/>+25% over September 2003&#8217;s $28.1 million<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Third Quarter 2008: $112.89 million<\/span><br \/>+4% over 3Q 2007&#8217;s $108.68 million<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Year to date: $321.69 million<\/span><br \/>+1% over last year&#8217;s $318.79 million<\/p>\n<p>Note that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2007\/2007-09.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">September 2007<\/span><\/a> was one of the weaker months of last year, comparatively. And it is quite possible that the narrower categories may have performed worse than the overall category \u2014 that has been the pattern all year. We&#8217;ll see when I finish the count. In the meantime, the widest measure is up. Developing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still putting together the Diamond estimates for September 2008 \u2014 but I can convey now that based on the numbers I have in, the Overall category (all comics, all trade paperbacks, and all magazines sold to retailers by Diamond) is up for the month, the third quarter, and the year to date. The estimates: September &#8230; <a title=\"Bulletin: September, Third Quarter, YTD up overall for comics\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/20\/bulletin-september-third-quarter-ytd-up\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bulletin: September, Third Quarter, YTD up overall for comics\">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":[17,75],"class_list":["post-5938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-diamond-monthly-reports","tag-quarterly-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938","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=5938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5939,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938\/revisions\/5939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}