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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on a pure "my budget is tight" level, with no regards to taste or quality at all, every other medium comes out on top
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and i don't know if marvel noticed, but our generation doesn't really have money to spend on 6 month super events with tie-ins
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every adaptation to take a shrinking market and exploit it harder shrinks the market more
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i dunno what's more unbelievable, that Marvel took until this year to realize they should leverage the movies for promotion
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or that they ever realized it at all
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i think they always knew, but none of these people know jack shit about business? they know West Coast Avengers canon, not marketing
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