I'm afraid reprints aren't something younger readers like. My youngest daughter (who is 25) reads comics but really doesn't read anything printed before the 90's. I guess it's the same reason younger people won't watch a B&W TV show. They feel it's too simplistic or silly.

Me? I loved reprints growing up. It was a way to read older stories cheaply. And we currently have access to many collections of old reprints. I suspect the only ones reading them are people like us here on this forum.

Among them are the constant retellings of just about exactly the same stories. When it comes to superhero stories, I’d much rather have access to quality reprints of the good stories of the past (the stories we saw for the first time, like the Galactus trilogy or Shang-Chi’s duel with the cat) than unending and repetitive modern reinterpretations. 

However, I’m not too keen on facsimiles of old comics... Apart from the occasional Detective #27 or Action #1, I don’t much see the point in them and would rather have worthy stories collected in a book that reflects their relevance, like the IDW or Titan hardcovers.

(I would also absolutely welcome very cheap and widely available reprints of old runs, as things like the Blue Ribbon digests were definitely a gateway to the DC universe as far as I was concerned. I want those next to the cash register at the grocery!!!)

I'm not sure what you mean here, especially as you say you do like the DC digests of the late '70s-'80s. I guess I like not-so-facsmiles like the early Gladstone Donald Duck (and Gottfredson Mickey Mouse) reprint comics (with new cover by Daan Jippes) best, then their EC reprints (although the early '70s Russ Cochran ones are the nicest because they are closer to the original editions in quality of printing). I have most of the '70s tabloid-sized Famous First Editions and liked the ones that included the original cover, but I'd have liked them better closer to the original size (and I'm sure they didn't do them that way because of fears of people being fooled into paying a lot for them as if they were the originals which apparently even happened with the first few tabloid sized ones minus outer card stock cover).

There are also the '80s Silver Age Classics DC put out with new ads and the original cover shown smaller on the front in a recurring frame. I have most of those but again the print quality was a bit poor. Still, they are affordable. I am loathe to dip a toe in the hardcover reprint collections area for fear of it leading to total bankruptcy they being usually pretty expensive. I think I just most like any comic to be standard U.S. comic book sized (they fit in with other comics I already have for one thing) with quality but not overly lavish printing. Others must feel the same as I've found those almost exact reprints done for J.C. Penny and those that are included with action-figures often seem to be pricey to try to get! I still don't even like the comics that are magazine format/sized or graphic-novels in their various shapes and dimensions that don't fit with anything else, it's like that one DVD or CD set that is uniquely packaged and has to be kept separate as it won't fit on the shelf with everything else.

I guess a lot of people have gone into collecting the reprint hard-cover and other thicker Essential/Showcase books, but I like my reprints to be the most like their original presentation. Plus I like the color to be as close to the original appearance, which many of the collections are nothing like. I've found just about every reprint on baxter or glossy heavier bright white stocks to be uglier than the originals, with an exception for Neal Adams standing up well enough.

I seem to be in the minority in that I would love it if DC did more of these on the condition that they wouldn't simply be reprinting the same old stuff (ie. Superman #75, Watchmen #1, etc.).  I remember when they released their Millennium line back in 2000 and getting a kick simply out of a lot of the back up features contained therein.  Roy Raymond, Silver Age Green Arrow and Aquaman, Golden Age Spectre and Doctor Fate, even the Superman story which followed the key feature "The World's Mightiest Team!" when Superman 76 was reprinted wasn't something you'd find elsewhere.

Pizza Hut did some Superman/Batman/Wonder Woman reprints back in the 70's and selected a couple of random issues to release for each character - Batman 122/123, Superman 97/113, Wonder Woman 60/62.  These weren't key issues, they were just a sort of random sampling of what DC was doing back in the 50's with their biggest characters and therefore not the stuff you've seen reprinted ad nauseum.  Imagine being able to pick up a copy of Batman 107 (2nd Printing) off the stands today.  It's weird to me that more people aren't excited about that - I mean, it's not like DC is cancelling their new stuff in favour of old, just having the two completely different iterations sitting next to one another on the rack.

Something which puzzles me though - the article states that "DiDio polled the audience over just how many people in the room read DC’s Facsimile Editions" and "We do these Facsimile Editions where we reprint older issues of comics including all the old ads and stuff…and in some cases these are selling more than the new comics with these characters".  However, all the information I can find online indicates that the line doesn't start until August.  Has DC started putting these out already?

Do these facsimile editions have letters pages?

I think the current batch from Marvel are supposed to but I don't know still not having gotten one. I can see the back covers are modern ads though so 'hoo nose'? I haven't even gotten one of those 'True Believers' editions. I would like any house ads for other comics or related stuff as well as bullpen page and letter page, but not to take things so far as to be able to fool some novice buyer into paying three or four figures for a copy thinking it's the original.

I bought a lot of the True Believer reprints. It's a great way to check out an older series without dropping a lot of money on a Masterworks or Omnibus (and you can do that later if you really like it.)