Comments on: Diamond Not Distributing http://manga.jadedragononline.com/blog/2009/07/22/diamond-not-distributing/ Manga News, Reviews and Commentary Mon, 20 May 2013 10:43:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Brian Henderson http://manga.jadedragononline.com/blog/2009/07/22/diamond-not-distributing/#comment-998 Brian Henderson Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:09:43 +0000 http://manga.jadedragononline.com/?p=1532#comment-998 Unfortunately, as I’ve said many times before, Diamond doesn’t owe you anything. They are a business, their obligation is first and foremost to themselves and their stockholders if they’re publically traded. That means cutting costs where possible and one of the places they have been cutting costs is by removing comics and manga that do not sell a particular amount from their monthly magazine. Diamond pays for the costs of Preview, they also pay for the costs of warehousing these underperforming comics. Having a ton of non-selling comics and manga in their warehouse makes no financial sense. Yen Press has tons of other outlets available to them, bookstores, Amazon, etc., it’s not like they’re going to go out of business because Previews isn’t listing their manga, but honestly, they have no one to blame but themselves for producing unpopular books.

Diamond doesn’t owe you anything. You don’t have to like it, you can complain about it, but making it sound like you’ve got a legitimate beef because they’re not putting the whole world of comics and manga in your hands for free every month isn’t logical.

]]> By: julie http://manga.jadedragononline.com/blog/2009/07/22/diamond-not-distributing/#comment-997 julie Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:03:49 +0000 http://manga.jadedragononline.com/?p=1532#comment-997 I gave up on ordering from Diamond earlier in the year. Now I pre-order from Right Stuf (during studio sales) or Amazon, and I haven’t had as many problems with canceled titles.

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