1010 - What is the Role of the Comic Book Publisher?

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4.6 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2011

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

In this Comic Talk episode, we continue our discussion of the various roles and responsibilities in the buyer - retailer - creator - publisher chain. This time we focus on the Comic Book Publisher. We then follow it up with discussions on the new Superman casting, seller's remorse, Age of X and more. (1:30:46)

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0:00.0	This is Comic Eastpeak episode 110, Comic Talk.
0:04.7	They don't have to be concerned with what people want.
0:06.7	Instead, they can just use marketing to,
0:09.1	and they're thinking more in terms of what they can convince people to buy.
0:13.2	If you're interested at all, and you're going to go in and you're going to buy the comic.
0:16.7	You want to buy the comic.
0:18.3	You don't want to buy what you just watched.
0:22.0	Welcome to Comic Eastpeak. I'm Brian Deamer.
0:24.9	Oh, Adam Murdo. Say that again.
0:26.8	I'm Adam Murdo.
0:27.9	Yes, you are, and I'm Brian Christman.
0:29.8	I'm Mike Gallagher.
0:31.1	And thanks for joining us, technical difficulties and all.
0:35.0	This episode of Comic Eastpeak is brought to you by my digitalcomics.com.
0:39.6	Go there because I told you to. Buy comics because they're there and they're DRM free
0:46.0	and they're cheap the way digital comics are supposed to be. I didn't just say that. Oh, snap.
0:54.1	They have all kinds of... I didn't just say that. Oh, snap.
1:00.6	They have all kinds of great comics for great prices.
1:04.4	A lot of top cow books for a buck 99.
1:07.3	A lot of, I see books here.
1:09.7	They got Boom Studio books for $1.99.
1:11.9	I'm seeing some books here for $99. I'm Studio books for $1.99. I'm seeing some books here for $99.
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