tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post3428942523956741708..comments2024-02-10T18:19:36.406-08:00Comments on Newspaper Rock: COWBOYS & ALIENS sales inflatedRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-18151766649863052412007-05-10T15:58:00.000-07:002007-05-10T15:58:00.000-07:00Right, Russ. Even if this is standard practice in...Right, Russ. Even if this is standard practice in the comic-book and motion-picture industries, Lewis is free to critique it. And I'm free to share his critique and thus make it more well-known.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-57061352344243929532007-05-10T14:06:00.000-07:002007-05-10T14:06:00.000-07:00Writerfella here -- Early on, writerfella rese...Writerfella here --<BR/> Early on, writerfella researched COWBOYS & ALIENS, and found that its initial numbers were due to 'free distributions' and so the numbers weren't actual. Thus, it nowhere deserves its reputation as a 'best-seller' among 'graphic novels'. There is a certain amount of calculation here and it becomes similar to a movie studio's willingness to let theaters lie about 'sold-out' opening days of certain movies, that 'word-of-mouth' then can become a free source of advertising for that film. People say, 'Hey, I can't get in to see that film, so it must be pretty good!'<BR/> Then they strive to see the film and they tell their friends. That means "COWBOYS & ALIENS" did that very same marketing ploy...<BR/>All Best<BR/>Russ Bates<BR/>'writerfella'writerfellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00111681906238053379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-8719427495796375882007-05-10T02:53:00.000-07:002007-05-10T02:53:00.000-07:00Many of my postings cover "old news," so that's no...Many of my postings cover "old news," so that's nothing new. Sometimes I review 25-year-old comics, 50-year-old movies, or 100-year-old books. <BR/><BR/>The question is whether it's news to me or to readers of this blog, not whether it's news, period. This subject is news because I haven't reported on it before.<BR/><BR/>Lewis wasn't questioning co-op deals so much as the inflated numbers for COWBOYS & ALIENS. He stated his reasons for his critique. <BR/><BR/>Whatever they do, DC and Marvel don't tout sales figures from Entertainment Weekly based on one NYC store. And retailers don't sell DC and Marvel comics at steep discounts off the cover price.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-27357484806962281932007-05-09T17:46:00.000-07:002007-05-09T17:46:00.000-07:00And this is old news to boot. If you did your rese...And this is old news to boot. If you did your research, you might be shocked or suprised to learn that retailer co-ops are nothing new, DC and Marvel have done them for years.<BR/><BR/>The only people complaining about this, aren't retailers, who are in fact happy with these sort of deals, but other graphic novelists who think it's unfair. Maybe they should go with a publisher with pull with the major retailers?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com