Comments on: Tensions de-escalate http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/22/tensions-de-escalate/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:18:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Brian Spence http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/22/tensions-de-escalate/#comment-736424 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:17:06 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/22/tensions-de-escalate/#comment-736424 I've been out of it, Heidi, but I saw this on the PW Weekly newsletter: "For one thing, you CAN'T PROVE that you lost $225 sales in Lost Girls. You haven't done the work to prove this. So stop it. If I'm a publisher, I can just as easily suggest that you sold an extra $400 in Lost Girls because of all the resulting buzz. I'm beating you by $175! Victory!" —Blogger Tom Spurgeon responding to retailer Brian Hibbs on the subject of ComicsPRO's position paper against publishers selling books at concs before they are available to comics shops. I used to work in a comics shop for years, and I attended conventions. It's very easy to prove that you lost a sale on a high ticket item like that when you see one of your customers walking away from a convention with a pricey book that they could have picked up at your store. In fact, many times, we knew that a particular customer wants a certain item (many times they'll even pre-order) but if they pick it up before we even get our shipment, we'd be losing money. We don't even have to witness the purchase, many times the customer will tell us to our face that they picked it up somewhere else after we ordered it for them! Sorry Tom, but it's easy to prove a loss of sales. I’ve been out of it, Heidi, but I saw this on the PW Weekly newsletter:

“For one thing, you CAN’T PROVE that you lost $225 sales in Lost Girls. You haven’t done the work to prove this. So stop it. If I’m a publisher, I can just as easily suggest that you sold an extra $400 in Lost Girls because of all the resulting buzz. I’m beating you by $175! Victory!”

—Blogger Tom Spurgeon responding to retailer Brian Hibbs on the subject of ComicsPRO’s position paper against publishers selling books at concs before they are available to comics shops.

I used to work in a comics shop for years, and I attended conventions. It’s very easy to prove that you lost a sale on a high ticket item like that when you see one of your customers walking away from a convention with a pricey book that they could have picked up at your store. In fact, many times, we knew that a particular customer wants a certain item (many times they’ll even pre-order) but if they pick it up before we even get our shipment, we’d be losing money. We don’t even have to witness the purchase, many times the customer will tell us to our face that they picked it up somewhere else after we ordered it for them! Sorry Tom, but it’s easy to prove a loss of sales.

]]> by: Kurt Busiek http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/22/tensions-de-escalate/#comment-734025 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:15:12 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/22/tensions-de-escalate/#comment-734025 This is the Internet, sir. You need to ask? kdb This is the Internet, sir. You need to ask?

kdb

]]> by: Brian Hibbs http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/22/tensions-de-escalate/#comment-733968 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:59:02 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/22/tensions-de-escalate/#comment-733968 I guess people prefer outrage, and vituperation to civility and de-escalation, then, is the take away? -B I guess people prefer outrage, and vituperation to civility and de-escalation, then, is the take away?

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