The Beat: Geppi Lawsuit Round-Up
Heidi MacDonald at The Beathas up a nice, succinct posting on several lawsuits in which the owner of the dominant comics industry distributor Diamond is involved. The key thing to remember is that no one sees potential Geppi woes as a necessarily catastrophic event for its comics business -- that business is legally insulated from the others, and Diamond basically functions as long as its biggest mainstream clients want it to function above and beyond its own self-agency. On the other hand, some operational bleed seems much more likely in terms of solving some longstanding Diamond service problems, and any company with an aging owner and an executive group all around the same and slightly younger age bears watching in terms of its long-term future.
