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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2016 20:19:34 GMT -5
Step one: re-release each individual issue of Watchmen as a hardcover... so 12 hardcover issues Step Two release all 12 hardcovers issues together as a boxed set for Christmas... sourceStep Three: re-release all 4 individual issues of Dark Knight Returns as hardcovers.... Step Four: collect all 4 hardcovers into a boxed set for Christmas... sourceStep Five no longer drop digital prices on Comixology for Rebirth issues after they have been released for 4 or 8 weeks, keep them at $2.99 an issue for as long as they are on sale digitally source...sigh.... -M |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 3, 2016 20:32:27 GMT -5
Possibly scarier is looking at the comments and seeing people who think this is a good idea.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Aug 3, 2016 20:41:49 GMT -5
The hardcover thing is just dumb but the comixolgy thing isn't that surprising as I think Marvel has stopped dropping the prices too, or atleast they had last spring as I remember looking to catch up with the new Star Wars comics and the prices were still cover value even after 6 months.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2016 21:04:09 GMT -5
The hardcover thing is just dumb but the comixolgy thing isn't that surprising as I think Marvel has stopped dropping the prices too, or atleast they had last spring as I remember looking to catch up with the new Star Wars comics and the prices were still cover value even after 6 months. Yes but Marvel does offer the subscription alternative for Marvel Unlimited if you wait 6 months you can read every Marvel released for about $10 and offers print subscriptions at 45% off cover while DC charges more than cover for print subscriptions. I am not a fan of what Marvel is doing either, but at least they seem to be maintaining some inexpensive means of people entering the readership with models that offer a cheaper entry point. Neither is doing much to grow the audience and have regressive publishing policies that only deepen their status as a niche product with a small and shrinking customer base, but Marvel at least attempts to throw the bone out there for an inexpensive entry point, as ineffectual as it may be. Oh yes, DC is also offering special hardcover editions of ceratin trades available at Wal Mart (not sure if available elsewhere) when you buy the animated versions of the stories for several of their animated features, so once again, getting customers to re-buy things they already have in new packaging, as most of these were released months, if not years after the initial DVD/Blu-Ray release of the movies (though the new stuff has it out on release day). The once I looked at though had a price point higher than if you bough the Blu-Ray DVD and a hardcover of the book separately though...but that could just be an outlier. -M |
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Post by Nowhere Man on Aug 8, 2016 11:46:14 GMT -5
Why people who already have these two stories in affordable formats keep buying these expensive re-releases is beyond me. We all know they're out there, otherwise DC wouldn't keep doing this. I don't see editions like this being popular with the mass audience, who I assume would more often than not just go for the affordable TPB's of Watchmen and DKR.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2016 12:59:28 GMT -5
Again, comic fans get the comics their buying patterns deserve. There are people out there buying these expensive formats and making it profitable for DC to do it.
-M
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 8, 2016 18:55:50 GMT -5
Why people who already have these two stories in affordable formats keep buying these expensive re-releases is beyond me. And wait until they come with alternate covers!!! Slabbed ones!!! I don't see the point either. I understand getting a nice hardcover of the whole thing for easy re-reading, but that's all. However, as in all things that concern my fellow human beings, I am happy to live and let live. |
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