Publishing Notes: One Piece, DC DM Sales Spin, Les Librairies

* the latest volume of One Piece looks to have matched the initial print run of the last, record-setting installment.

* DC Comics major players John Rood and Bob Wayne have done two interviews worth reading if you track direct market sales and/or DC Vs. Marvel as sales entities more generally: ICv2.com; Newsarama. I never believed DC's pre-New 52 spin that they didn't really care about something like market share because of their focus on bottom-line numbers, but the general giddiness over DC sweeping January's Top 10 in the periodicals Direct Market plus John Rood deciding not to engage a question about bottom-line numbers by citing that top 10 sweep pretty much puts a stake in the heart of that canard. Some people have written me saying that these interviews that the pair do are disasters PR-wise, but I think there are some clearly effective things in there: I think describing DC publishing initiatives in terms of being beneficial for their retail partners really works for them, for example.

* this article from the Guardian showed up in my morning searches for a random of a bunch of postcards, and I'm not sure how VAT issues have an impact on that country's comics sellers, but the idea that a string of retailers might be valued for their cultural contributions and that this notion should shape policy is pretty powerfully appealing.
 
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