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<blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 7970901" data-attributes="member: 6689464"><p>There's only one Diamond store in the whole country as far as I know. I knew of another store in the same city, but I haven't been in that neighborhood in years and I don't know if it is still around and I only saw them selling back issue as collector items. I heard of another store in the same city, but I'm not sure if they are into the new comics business. There's certainly physical room for another one -I live in a huge city that spans across state lines-, it would depend on whether there is enough market and how small am I allowed to go -can you go with say four-five titles a week to get started?- with what I have in mind it would take about five or six dedicated customers in the first months to get things running.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Tell me about back issues. I just received a box of back issues, from my "local" store. I'm doing my part to help them, specially if it is cheap. Funny how I haven't bought new comics from them since April of 2009, and the last time I was physically there I only bought some old indie comics. I like them a lot because it is one of the only places where I can find older indie comics made by local creators. Is that or hoping the individual authors are still touring the convention circuit with enough back issues at hand. </p><p></p><p>There are other stores, but they seem to sell a very random assortment of back issue, there is not order nor any guidance to what they sell. I'm not even sure if they sell anything of it at all. It is all very arbitrary. For example, I've been trying to complete the Dan Jurgens run on a certain book, but nobody even knows or is informed enough to do this referral process -I'm starting to consider if it would be easier to settle for the digital version in Comixology with all the risks that it entails-. If you want to collect comics in here you are flying blind and hoping you just happen to find what you are looking for. If I got into this business, I would have to make sure to educate the public, hold coherent back issue catalogs, and provide a lot of guidance, and to help the local scene. Also to spend money on advertising.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MoonSong, post: 7970901, member: 6689464"] There's only one Diamond store in the whole country as far as I know. I knew of another store in the same city, but I haven't been in that neighborhood in years and I don't know if it is still around and I only saw them selling back issue as collector items. I heard of another store in the same city, but I'm not sure if they are into the new comics business. There's certainly physical room for another one -I live in a huge city that spans across state lines-, it would depend on whether there is enough market and how small am I allowed to go -can you go with say four-five titles a week to get started?- with what I have in mind it would take about five or six dedicated customers in the first months to get things running. Tell me about back issues. I just received a box of back issues, from my "local" store. I'm doing my part to help them, specially if it is cheap. Funny how I haven't bought new comics from them since April of 2009, and the last time I was physically there I only bought some old indie comics. I like them a lot because it is one of the only places where I can find older indie comics made by local creators. Is that or hoping the individual authors are still touring the convention circuit with enough back issues at hand. There are other stores, but they seem to sell a very random assortment of back issue, there is not order nor any guidance to what they sell. I'm not even sure if they sell anything of it at all. It is all very arbitrary. For example, I've been trying to complete the Dan Jurgens run on a certain book, but nobody even knows or is informed enough to do this referral process -I'm starting to consider if it would be easier to settle for the digital version in Comixology with all the risks that it entails-. If you want to collect comics in here you are flying blind and hoping you just happen to find what you are looking for. If I got into this business, I would have to make sure to educate the public, hold coherent back issue catalogs, and provide a lot of guidance, and to help the local scene. Also to spend money on advertising. [/QUOTE]
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