the only publisher that i get a vague feeling has some kind of handle on this is First Second, they seem to be doing *something*
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but to everybody else the idea of reaching out to the kind of person who'd like your book seems to be asking a fish to design jet engines
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i guess because too many of them already hate the idea of someone who doesn't want to live in a comic shop stepping into one
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given brevoort and others comments on "you have to buy the books", i think a lot of it is resentment that they have to do anything
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readers should give them money and they shouldn't change a thing. like, dude
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and again, you can't blame readers for low DM sales of diverse books when the vast majority of readers don't know about the pre-order system
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if marvel wants to up their sales of pre-existing readers, they should be doing an ongoing campaign to explain and simplify that shit
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i wonder if there's any way to get an API onto Comixology's pull list system besides offering to write the damn thing for free myself
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who knows, everyone is terrified of digital, even though i can think of about a billion ways it could help publishers and retailers
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the pricing is such a huge issue too - how you gonna sell 22 page 4 dollar comics to readers coming from manga and webcomics (you don't)
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honestly though it's so hard to get people to take a $1 or 25¢ comic i think it's the time and attention budgets that are harder to cut into
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definitely. 2-2.50 is about where i'd put things, personally, but 2.99 seems to be working for DC pretty well
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