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Monday Trending Topics: The Last Of The Best Sellers

Published Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:15:25 -0500

Last updated Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:37:09 -0500

Holy crap did Rich piss a lot of people off with the assertion that Justice League 1 isn't the best selling book of the year. And while a few BC forumers made some very good points in disagreement, the overall implication of what Rich is talking about is soon going to lead us to an interesting place: the Diamond charts already don't have quite the meaning as an indicator of publisher health that they once did, with the ever-increasing importance of the bookmarket and the international market. And with the coming digital juggernaut for single comic book issues… will we be slicing and dicing the Diamond numbers with the same fervor in September 2013? 2015?

That's a pretty interesting question. We've discussed this here before, but what metrics will we use to determine who's winning the comic publishing horse race? We all love being spectators for this particular race, so we'll come up with something. But it's soon going to look very different from the way it looks today.

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