Prepare for the next comic market crash

[DarkKnightReturns]

How does one prepar for the coming comic crash?

 

sells all his HG to me quickly and cheaply before they are worthless

What are you looking for?

steals and deals

[ChasingKingKirby]

As someone pointed out print products as a whole are dying - look at the newspaper industry. As a business model, it's just about dried up, with the notable exception of community newspapers in small towns and counties across the U.S.

 

The comic industry is not immune. It's really sad, because comics were such a big part of my life growing up.

 

I can vouch for this, the company I work for is the second largest printer of Science and Medical journals in North America and journals are steadily going digital. Print runs are getting smaller and smaller and smaller.

[dikran]

Amazon seems to be doing just fine...

[Flaming_Telepath]

Amazon seems to be doing just fine...

 

But Amazon has diversified in a huge way to counter the decline of print. What was it initially? Books and CDs.

 

These days, it's more a question of what can't you get on Amazon.

[Forbush-Man]

As someone pointed out print products as a whole are dying - look at the newspaper industry. As a business model, it's just about dried up, with the notable exception of community newspapers in small towns and counties across the U.S.

 

The comic industry is not immune. It's really sad, because comics were such a big part of my life growing up.

 

Many of these print institutions are having problems because they listed their material for free online. You do that & people will read their news for free on the web & sales of print will decline. Pretty simple to figure.

[kevnaminute]

As someone pointed out print products as a whole are dying - look at the newspaper industry. As a business model, it's just about dried up, with the notable exception of community newspapers in small towns and counties across the U.S.

 

The comic industry is not immune. It's really sad, because comics were such a big part of my life growing up.

 

Many of these print institutions are having problems because they listed their material for free online. You do that & people will read their news for free on the web & sales of print will decline. Pretty simple to figure.

 

Good point. Now, it's really hard for these entities to go back and start charging for content....almost like yelling fire when the house is already burned to a crisp.

[slym2none]

These days, it's more a question of what can't you get on Amazon.

 

 

 

 

-slym

[slym2none]

As someone pointed out print products as a whole are dying - look at the newspaper industry. As a business model, it's just about dried up, with the notable exception of community newspapers in small towns and counties across the U.S.

 

The comic industry is not immune. It's really sad, because comics were such a big part of my life growing up.

 

I can vouch for this, the company I work for is the second largest printer of Science and Medical journals in North America and journals are steadily going digital. Print runs are getting smaller and smaller and smaller.

 

I'm still waiting for the day there are no more text-books. Schools should assign each student (from k-5 all the way up to college-levels) a basic laptop computer, or maybe a Kindle-type reader, for schools to download all the text each student will need for each semester, thereby cutting out the losing of books (public schools will require a contract and possibly a refundable deposit) and also cut down on what the college student needs to buy every year. Programs can be time-based to "lock up" so the programs cannot be copied and/or re-used from semester to semester.

 

I know this could hurt an industry such as yours, but if it's already going that way...

 

 

 

 

-slym

[Earl Davis]

These days, it's more a question of what can't you get on Amazon.

 

 

 

 

-slym

 

True. I even got the cabinets I keep my comics in from Amazon.

 

Earl.

[thehumantorch]

As someone pointed out print products as a whole are dying - look at the newspaper industry. As a business model, it's just about dried up, with the notable exception of community newspapers in small towns and counties across the U.S.

 

The comic industry is not immune. It's really sad, because comics were such a big part of my life growing up.

 

Many of these print institutions are having problems because they listed their material for free online. You do that & people will read their news for free on the web & sales of print will decline. Pretty simple to figure.

 

Print institutions listed their material for free online because if they didn't someone else would. The internet has dramatically changed information sharing and the old physical print model is dying.

 

I've delivered mail for Canada Post for 30 years. Government pension cheques are univerally direct deposit now. Magazine volumes are down about 75%. First class volumes down more than 50%. Parcel volumes are much higher thanks to Ebay and on-line shopping. Even flyer delivery which has become our bread and butter has started to stagnate and I suspect start drying up.

 

It is a different world out there and the future of newspapers, comic books, Postal Services and other business models based on print media is grim. I'm hoping that comics will continue to sell in the TPB form.