Hello All, The last column and this one have taken a small break from the Business Aspect (Research, Research, Research columns) focus of the Burning Mind, with the last column briefly covering the Borders Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Everyone seems to be talking about Borders since the news of their bankruptcy went public.
CORRECTION: It was recently brought to my attention of an error I made in this column, which I will now correct.
(The above numbers are November 2010 Comic Book Sales Figures Reported by Diamond Comic Distributors.
For the time being the direct market is the main market for the comic book industry: distributors, publishers and retailers.
The Newsstand Market is, simply, a stand or store that sells magazines, newspapers, comics books and, sometimes, popular fiction.
What is the Market? That is the question left hanging at the end of the previous column.
Welcome back.
This time I am going to dive right into the subject, no long-winded setup here.
“I want to poop blue poop,” is one of the last lines of dialog in Tiny Tyrant Volume One: The Ethelbertosaurus.
