Alex Toth DoodleBook Not Worth $150

I don't think he intended to do so, and please realize this is me talking and not him, but the cartoonist and comics writer Jeff Parker provides a sterling example of how the policies of Diamond Comics Distributor, Inc. regarding moderate-selling books and comics seem to do harm to the industry entire. Parker's boutique publishing effort Dear John: The Alex Toth DoodleBook is a good book, in print, a perfect fit for comics shops that value carrying unique items that have perennial appeal that have an audience just not a mass mainstream audience, and it has enough readers to generate orders when Parker reaches out to retailers directly. However, it doesn't meet the minimums when placed in the Diamond catalog, with one end result being that people are paying exorbitant amounts on eBay thinking with some reason that the work is out of print. I don't understand how a system of minimums and levels and arena-combat fairness is better than a system that finds a way to value and support quality work like this over the long-term.
 
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