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<blockquote data-quote="Relique du Madde" data-source="post: 5887901" data-attributes="member: 42169"><p>Danny, I just have to say that you are naive on some of your points.</p><p></p><p>Amazon "takes it sweet time" on some orders becuase like it or not they have to locate a specific produce in their vast netowrk of warehouses or order pallets of books based on demand for the product while hoping that the distributers of said product can produce it and ship it to an amazon warehouse in a timely fashion. Amazon is just one node on a massive distribution network that is subject to the same limitations as a mom and pop buisness.</p><p></p><p>Also on the issue of Comic Books.</p><p></p><p>Marvel went bankrupt in the mid 90s so their co-monopoly with DC must have been awesome. Hell it must have worked well for both Marvel and DC considering they are are currently owned by mega entertainment corporations (Time Warner for DC and Disney for marvel). </p><p></p><p>As for price fixing, its a well known fact that Marvel and DC have to struggle with a beast known as proffitability. This beast causes two things to happen: </p><p>1) The number of pages in a comic to go down and the price of low selling comics to increase (currently any single sized print series at marvel costs either 2.99 or 3.99 depending on how many issue Marvel thinks it could be sold at. Limited runs tend to be priced at 3.99 or 4.99) in responce to the cost of printing an entire run of an issue.</p><p>2) Comic book series to be canceled if they sell below 25,000 or 20,000. Somehow indie or small publishers are able to survive with smaller runs, but that may be because they do not print between 52 to 80 titles a month (if you count double shipping).</p><p></p><p>Here is some hard numbers: <a href="http://acomicbookblog.com/2012/02/comic-book-sales-figures-january-2012/" target="_blank">http://acomicbookblog.com/2012/02/comic-book-sales-figures-january-2012/</a> </p><p></p><p>Scroll down to number 87 and 97... those two marvel comics have been officially canceled (#87, X-23 cancelation was announced in December of 2012 and X-23 was moved into Avenger Academy which is listed at 83. #97, Generation Hope, was cancled during that sales month).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>-Posted via mobile device.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Relique du Madde, post: 5887901, member: 42169"] Danny, I just have to say that you are naive on some of your points. Amazon "takes it sweet time" on some orders becuase like it or not they have to locate a specific produce in their vast netowrk of warehouses or order pallets of books based on demand for the product while hoping that the distributers of said product can produce it and ship it to an amazon warehouse in a timely fashion. Amazon is just one node on a massive distribution network that is subject to the same limitations as a mom and pop buisness. Also on the issue of Comic Books. Marvel went bankrupt in the mid 90s so their co-monopoly with DC must have been awesome. Hell it must have worked well for both Marvel and DC considering they are are currently owned by mega entertainment corporations (Time Warner for DC and Disney for marvel). As for price fixing, its a well known fact that Marvel and DC have to struggle with a beast known as proffitability. This beast causes two things to happen: 1) The number of pages in a comic to go down and the price of low selling comics to increase (currently any single sized print series at marvel costs either 2.99 or 3.99 depending on how many issue Marvel thinks it could be sold at. Limited runs tend to be priced at 3.99 or 4.99) in responce to the cost of printing an entire run of an issue. 2) Comic book series to be canceled if they sell below 25,000 or 20,000. Somehow indie or small publishers are able to survive with smaller runs, but that may be because they do not print between 52 to 80 titles a month (if you count double shipping). Here is some hard numbers: [url]http://acomicbookblog.com/2012/02/comic-book-sales-figures-january-2012/[/url] Scroll down to number 87 and 97... those two marvel comics have been officially canceled (#87, X-23 cancelation was announced in December of 2012 and X-23 was moved into Avenger Academy which is listed at 83. #97, Generation Hope, was cancled during that sales month). -Posted via mobile device. [/QUOTE]
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