Previews O/A Frequency Being Cut?

As expected for several weeks now, it looks like Diamond will make some moves in reaction to the oncoming rough economic year expected nation- and world-wide in 2009. Self-publisher Rick Veitch seems to have unearthed official word that Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc. plans to curtail its past policy to carry offered again or O/A books. In place was a longstanding policy where publishers could have available for store to order and carry older material, just designated as offered again. Someone steeped in DM history would have to tell me if this policy was official and intentional in a "we intend this to be the place where and the manner in which publishers offer their backlist material" way or if it's just something that kind of developed over the years as a few publishers and then several more goosed a system to ensure the most orders. Either way it developed, it was a boon to those publishers, and taking it away will almost certainly hurt them. It could also hurt the fabric of comic stores by driving them away, even in subtle fashion, from high-selling perennials.
 
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