ActuaBD.com: Manolosanctis To Stop Publishing New Books

I lack the context to make a great deal of sense out of this news report at the French-language comics news clearinghouse ActuaBD.com that a publisher named Manolosanctis is looking to move out of new comics publishing and is seeking another direction, but it struck me as an intriguing story nonetheless. The publisher, which launched in 2009, has apparently depended a great deal on building buzz for new works via free sharing of that work on-line, and soliciting a kind of "community sharing" from prospective comics-makers. It sort of sounds like the kind of model that one would encounter in 1999 as opposed to 2009. The article at ActuaBD.com makes a lot of the bad math that rears its head when it comes to making physical comics product with limited print runs, but a peak at one of the comments on the piece suggests there may be some push back against this announcements along the lines that this was an all-but-unsustainable model from the get-go and the publisher may was burning through both investment money and the goodwill of many of its initial contributors in a way that resembled a fuse more than it did the start of a long-sustainable furnace fire. I'm sure there are like 18 billion nuances I'm not getting, though.
 
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