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As a retailer myself, quite a bit of the topics covered are of interest, but the current thinking behind Marvel's TPB pricing caught my eye They were asked about the collection pricing by a retailer, and here is his response: Another topic that wasn't on the formal agenda was pricing for Marvel graphic novels "To use[...]

Whatever 'Death Of X' is, Marvel Comics wants to clear out their warehouse of X-Men related titles, it seems. With every X-related trade paperbacks and

But now that Amazon owns ComiXology, maybe it will become more common? All-New Ultimates TPB Vol 1 is listed on ComiXology at the rather low price of $1.99 or £1.49 A promotional price? Possibly. But then when All-New Ultimates #1 is listed at £7.49 or $11.99 you think that maybe, just maybe, someone may have got the[...]

Just the plain old ordinary comic book collections you could have picked up in your comic shop over the last few years that are, for some reason, out of print and are now burning a hole in your bookshelf… Some recent eBay sales, spurred in part by the current Secret Wars crossover, the upcoming Infinity Gauntlet[...]

Many comic book publishers print their trades, hardcovers, and other collections overseas due to lower printing costs. The trade off is that it can double

Diamond Comic Distrubutors and Marvel Comics are giving retailers massive discounts on the following collections, anywhere from an 80% to a 50% reduction on the already discounted prices that comic stores pay. What that means is that a) stores may have some very nice prices on these books soon b) if they don't you may be[...]

From Amazon, Hachette and others, a few discoveries for upcoming Marvel collections. We already mentioned Fantastic Fourever of course... The Marvel

DC Comics has informed retailers that the following trade paperback collections have a few copies left in the warehouse but will be going out of print

UPDATE: Marvel's David Gabriel gets in touch to tell us that Comic Shop News misquoted him, and that he never said that the Essentials program was

Did you buy The Walking Dead Vol 17 in trade paperback this week? You might want to check you got all you were expecting. There are a number of reports of

Old Batman, that is… -I had half a dozen people looking for OOP Dixon Nightwing trades. -almost as many were looking for Baman: Contagion and Cataclysm, the two events leading into No Man's Land (which DC is rereleasing) -a couple of people looking for Knightquest: the Search because of DC leaving leaving it out of the Knightquest TPB -Sold[...]

The only way in which you'd have saved money by tradewaiting this series is if you'd have waited for the regular TPBs rather than the hardcovers — and due to the notorious slowness of DC's trades programme, you'd still be waiting for the final volume to come out if you did! The hardcover editions would, somewhat[...]

Dapper Dan writes for Bleeding Cool; Episode 4 (Ok, there’s not really been 3 earlier ones, but you might pay more attention if you think this is an

And the same goes for the forthcoming Absolute Sinestro Corps volume, which has apparently chosen to collect some–but not all–of the standalone character-focused one-shot tie-in issues alongside the main series, despite purporting to be the ultimate version of the storyline. Ultimately, in cases like this, it's up to the reader to decide what they feel is[...]

(To pluck an example from the top of my head, fans who have tradewaited Ed Brubaker's Captain America have had to deal with Marvel putting out "premiere" hardcovers for certain arcs before switching to straight TPBs for others, only to go back to hardcovers for later storylines).    And DC is even more unpredictable: not[...]