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Reply Subj: Re: How about hygenic ones? Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 at 08:25:11 am EDT (Viewed 591 times) | |||||||
Quote: Quote: I have serious doubts about any marketing strategy that releases 52 new comics products over the course of a year and expects many of them to prosper. Indeed, even those with existing followings might suffer from "jumping off". I'm with most commentators in predicting a short-term sales spike followed by massive event fatigue.Quote: I think the fact that it's all being done by a small pool of writers/artists, planned centrally by two people, is going to cause problems almost immediately.It's a bold experiment, but I suspect an ill-timed one. Quote: Quote: And going to competetive e-comic release at the exact moment you want the retailers to be on your side is lunacy.Quote: That might work, since a lot of people are collectors and need the paper copies to archive. Right now they're at a point where people are giving up comics entirely because it's inconvenient to go to a local comic shop once a week. Electronic distribution will get those people back in.I don't think the collector's market is what is was. Collectors are completists, and when a company is putting out 70+ titles a month few purchasers can afford that level of completeness. An Avengers of X-Men fan needs to invest in, what, five or six titles a month at a cost of around $25 just to follow that one "franchise". I suspect that the move to e-comics will simply drive many readers to pick up their comics at Pirate Bay or some other illegal distribution source. | |||||||
