newsarama.com - 1/19/2009
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Diamond Comics Distributors has upped its threshold for its purchase order minimum and is ending its Previews Adult Supplement
atomic-robo.com - 1/25/2009
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atomic-robo.com —
If you follow print comics at all, then
you probably already know about Diamond’s Big News. The
short version is that they’re increasing the minimum amount a title must earn in order for Diamond to continue carrying it. This makes good ...
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Diamond Raises Order Benchmarks for Publishers
Comic Book Resources —
... in a blog post by Simon Jones of Icarus Publishing. I contacted Diamond for comment late Friday, but I haven’t received a response. According to Newsarama , Diamond last changed the order minimum in September 2005. The increase of the purchase-order benchmark means each book needs to generate at least $2,500 of revenue to be listed in Previews . In ...
Strip News 1-23-09
COMIXTALK —
... accounts over to Google but at a Feedburner address. Confused? Here’s a post that explains what to do and what other folks have done when they ran into problems. We have until February 28th before accounts get deleted, so I’m going to hope that my Feedburner plugin updates itself before then. Another impactful moving is Diamond’s new policy - there’s more discussion than I can link to but try here, here, here, here, here, here and here for starters. And the ...
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precur.wordpress.com 1/19/2009 — Diamond Comics Distributors is apparently raising its minimums and discontinuing the print version of its Preview Adult catalog supplement, switching over to a PDF. While the development is worrying on a number of levels, especially for smaller ...
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pwbeat.publishersweekly.com 2/4/2009 — There’s a lot going on since Diamond’s new benchmark bombshell, with several alternative distribution sources cropping up, notably Ka-Blam and their Print-on-demand Comics Monkey. However, a much lower discount than retailers are used ...
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