{"id":5994,"date":"2007-12-24T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-28T03:09:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T03:09:15","slug":"november-2007-comics-sales-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/24\/november-2007-comics-sales-down\/","title":{"rendered":"November 2007 comics sales down slightly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: small; font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">by John Jackson Miller<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/goog_1327156927\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/200711WorldWarHulk5-1.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>November orders for the comics industry slipped versus the same month last year for comic books, but were up strongly for trade paperbacks. Sales figures for the month appear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2007\/2007-11.html\"><b>here<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unit and dollar sales for the Top 300 comics were down 13% and 12% respectively; this November had four shipping weeks versus five in November 2006.  DC again led Marvel in the number of items in the Top 300, placing 100 versus Marvel\u2019s 83; Marvel nonetheless led in every market-share category tracked.<\/p>\n<p>The market continues on track for a growth year in all categories.<\/p>\n<p>Unit Sales for Diamond\u2019s Top 300 Comic Books (est.): <b>6.95 million copies<\/b><br \/>\nDollar Sales for Diamond\u2019s Top 300 Comic Books (est.): <b>$21.75 million<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Dollar Sales for Diamond\u2019s Top 100 Trade Paperbacks (est.): <b>$5.99 million<\/b><br \/>\nCombined Dollar Sales for Diamond\u2019s Top 300 Comics and Top 100 TPBs (est.): <b>$27.74 million<\/b><\/p>\n<p>OVERALL U.S. Dollar Sales for Diamond\u2019s Comics, Trade Paperbacks, and Magazines (est.): <b>$36.27 million<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Average price of comic books in Diamond\u2019s Top 300: <b>$3.17<\/b><br \/>\nAverage price of comic books in Diamond\u2019s Top 300, weighted by orders: <b>$3.13 <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by John Jackson Miller November orders for the comics industry slipped versus the same month last year for comic books, but were up strongly for trade paperbacks. Sales figures for the month appear here. Unit and dollar sales for the Top 300 comics were down 13% and 12% respectively; this November had four shipping weeks &#8230; <a title=\"November 2007 comics sales down slightly\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/24\/november-2007-comics-sales-down\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about November 2007 comics sales down slightly\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[126,17],"class_list":["post-5994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2007-sales","tag-diamond-monthly-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994","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=5994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5996,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994\/revisions\/5996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}