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Monthly Archives: January 2007

Numbers Game: Shuffling Deck Chairs on the Titanic

29-Jan-07

Marc-Oliver Frisch’s always enlightening sales analysis is now posted at The Beat, looking at DC’s estimated numbers for December 2006, and buried towards the end is a very interesting breakdown of the Average Sales per Title of their three primary imprints. I’ve spotlighted the DCU as a point of interest:
DC UNIVERSE
12/2003: 29,26312/2004: 36,92512/2005: 44,99312/2006: 44,641—————6 [...]

Marketing Monday: First Things First

29-Jan-07

Among the myriad challenges comics publishers of all sizes face, one of the biggest — and most frustrating, personally — is marketing. Way too many publishers believe that marketing is little more than sending out badly written press releases and snagging previews, reviews and interviews from Wizard, Newsarama, Comic Book Resources, et al. While some [...]

Blogaround Challenge 2007 Update

26-Jan-07

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On your own blog, in a post titled “Blogaround Challenge 2007″, write a brief review of three blogs that are not currently on your personal blogroll. Mine the blogrolls of your favorite blogs, Google’s Blog Search, the Watchtower, or the all-new Comics [...]