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Vao · **SUPERBANANE** Beiträge: 5647

Bei Wanted gab es auch grössere Verspätungen und das waren bloss 22 Seiten mit wenig Charakteren und wenig editoriellem Einfluss.

Es gibt ja gewisse Leute die immer sagen, dass sich Vertigo Titel viel besser verkaufen als Superhelden und dies besonders im Buchhandel. Ich habe immer gesagt, dass dies nicht stimmt und nun haben wir es schwarz auf weiss:

These titles tracking (especially, to me, 52) says that the oft-repeated line that the bookstore environment isn’t interested in superhero comics, especially ones tied to “continuity”, is clearly wrong. In particular, 52 v1 outsells every Vertigo title except for V For Vendetta and Sandman v1. That’s hardly a sign of a market rejecting the superhero genre, in my opinion.

Not one of the Minx titles makes the Top 750, nor does any CMX title except for Megatokyo, which is OEL. Looking deep into the Long Tail, Minx’s Plain Janes sells 3201 copies, none of the other four Minx titles even manages to crack a meager 800 copies sold in the bookstore environment. Aren’t those books specifically designed for the bookstores, and the customers that shop there?

There’s a lot of conventional wisdom that suggests that things like the Minx and Vertigo books sell oodles and oodles better in the bookstore market than the do in the DM, but I have to tell you, now that I’m looking at the “full” BookScan list, I can guarantee you that this is simply false. Now that I can see into the Long Tail, what I can tell you is that, while the bookstore market can (potentially) sell more copies of the “top” of the “bookstore-oriented” material, on anything else the DM beats them handily.

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