Go, Read: Todd Allen On Library Sales
Todd Allen takes a look at the sale of graphic novels into library systems in a manner that's refreshing for its lack of instant sales-level judgment on behalf of the analyst. This allows Allen to look at the numbers as they're presented to him rather than as he'd wish them to be -- I have to imagine there are factors involved that make such numbers something short of the entire story even the within the context of this ordering mechanism -- and the result is a kind of easygoing candor about how such books might penetrate certain systems. Anyway, it's one of those pieces that sounds like the beginning of a discussion rather than the end of one, but it's genially presented and worth your time if think sort of thing interests you at all.
