{"id":5960,"date":"2008-05-19T23:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-28T03:09:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T03:09:02","slug":"april-2008-comics-sales-estimates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/19\/april-2008-comics-sales-estimates\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2008 comics sales estimates: Market up slightly overall"},"content":{"rendered":"
by John Jackson Miller<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n

\nDiamond Comic Distributors<\/b> released its sales rankings today, and unusually I was able to attend to the math right away and generate the estimates for April 2008<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Overall, the comics industry fared better against last April<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 but only overall. Comparatives in the narrower categories remain slightly down, even considering this April had five ship weeks (versus four last year). But the backlist strength bumped the overall category up 6% this month \u2014 with the year-to-date now ahead by nearly $1 million, or 1%.
\n <\/p>\n

Look for my Newsarama column<\/strong> with in-depth historical analysis coming soon. (Update:<\/strong> And now it’s online \u2014 you can find it here<\/strong><\/a>.)
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\nTOP 300 COMICS UNIT SALES<\/strong>
\nApril 2008: 6.71 million copies
\nVersus 1 year ago this month: -6%
\nVersus 5 years ago this month: +11%
\nVersus 10 years ago this month: -5%
\nYEAR TO DATE:  25.82 million copies, -6% vs. 2007<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

TOP 300 COMICS DOLLAR SALES<\/strong>
\nApril 2008: $21.45 million
\nVersus 1 year ago this month: -2%
\nVersus 5 years ago this month: +28%
\nVersus 10 years ago this month: +22%
\nYEAR TO DATE: $81.24 million, -5% vs. 2007<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

TOP 100 TRADE PAPERBACK DOLLAR SALES<\/strong>
\nApril 2008: $4.74 million
\nVersus 1 year ago this month: -7%
\nVersus 5 years ago this month, just the Top 50 vs. the Top 50: +30%
\nYEAR TO DATE: $ 16.85 million, -1% vs. 2007<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

TOP 300 COMICS + TOP 100 TRADE PAPERBACK DOLLAR SALES<\/strong>
\nApril 2008: $26.19 million
\nVersus 1 year ago this month: -3%
\nVersus 5 years ago this month, counting just the Top 50 TPBs: +28%
\nYEAR TO DATE: $98.45 million, -4% vs. 2007<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

OVERALL DIAMOND SALES (including all comics, trades, and magazines)<\/strong>
\nApril 2008: $36.74 million ($40.39 million with UK)
\nVersus 1 year ago this month: +6%
\nVersus 5 years ago this month: +38%
\nYEAR TO DATE: $135.04 million, +1% vs. 2007, +43% vs. 2003<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by John Jackson Miller Diamond Comic Distributors released its sales rankings today, and unusually I was able to attend to the math right away and generate the estimates for April 2008. Overall, the comics industry fared better against last April \u2014 but only overall. Comparatives in the narrower categories remain slightly down, even considering this … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[112,17],"class_list":["post-5960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2008-sales","tag-diamond-monthly-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960","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=5960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5962,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions\/5962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}