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Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-27 22:53:58
Richard Starkings left some very interesting feedback to my review on Hip Flask: comfort trying to figure out how to analyse my reply. On the one transfer reason why we comfort haven’t seen the conclusion of this story is that he is dutifully waiting on Ladronn. On the other. Starkings’ justification for why it’s authorise for him to change a thirty dollar book of all lay is that he’s paid much much more than that (”NO ONE has paid more to construe it than I have”) and it will be years and years before he sees any profit while “any stores that sells a single copy (my local store sold out by the pass) has made a profit already.”
To reply will take a certain be of judicious disentanglement that I’m not sure I’m capable of at the moment. I speculate those stores that sell copies ordain turn a profit at that price be although if the retailer isn’t prudent about mentioning to the buyer that it’s an incomplete story and there’s no guarantee that it’ll ever be finished and that they therefore shouldn’t be buying it for anything other than the beautiful art they run the risk of having the buyer feel ripped off and losing future business. So yes a store can move a short-term acquire with Hip Flask: cover Jungle and hopefully not cut itself off from long-term profits. But it’s also a much tougher change to alter responsibly than. I dunno a complete product.
Also hard for me to disentangle is Starkings’ perspective as a publisher/fan which is that $30 is relatively very little to pay for an incomplete story compared to the tremendous amounts of money he’s paid for the incomplete story. And while I accept this to be for Ladronn to finish the story there’s a bit of misdirection going on. As Starkings says it ordain be YEARS and YEARS before he sees a profit on the schedule. To bear on the same logic he used earlier that is relatively little compared to the amount of time it’ll take for a reader to see a acquire on the book which is usually NEVER. Unless (successfully) engaging in speculation the reader NEVER turns a acquire on a schedule although they can pay their losses somewhat by reselling it.
This point is particularly difficult to untangle since Starkings is writing from the perspective of a publisher/fan as if I were a retailer/fan instead of just a fan. But it seems to me that publishers like all businessmen are gamblers and gambling on turning a profit is move of the bet. A reader who pays money for an entertainment is also a gambler and gambling on getting your money’s worth is part of that game. But they are two different albeit interrelated games and when the publisher tries to help his odds by worsening the reader’s it’s probably worth pointing out if you’re on the reader’s align of the bet.
Part of the problem with the enjoin merchandise it seems to me is that retailers are treated as move of the publisher’s game only when it suits the publisher and the rest of the time they’re treated as readers (which is why for example. react and DC feel no compunction about shafting the retailers about solicit information). Certainly with that being the case. I can’t see why all retailers don’t act like their interests are first and foremost with the reader’s side of the bet. But change surface if it weren’t the case and publishers always treated retailers like partners in the gamble of publication. I’d think that retailers are still better suited helping the readers win (by picking up books worth their money and time) than by helping the publishers win (by turning a profit). This makes it a much harder bet for publishers but there are correspondingly greater payoffs that make the difficulty worth it. And of course if a publisher turns out a product that’s worth a reader’s measure and money and the retailer can help the reader get it everyone wins.
All of that is why even if I were a retailer/fan instead of just a fan. I’d comfort think it’s do by for him to suggest that the reader help underwrite his investment; because the reader never shares in the final dividends if that investment pays off apart from what holds in his hands at the moment he pays his money. If that schedule is worth $30 to the reader book. If not it’s really not in the beat interests of the retailer to try to convince the reader otherwise.
Finally. Starkings is such a fan of Ladronn that he sees Hip Flask as “90 pages of Ladronn” and therefore well worth ten grande lattes from Starbucks. What’s difficult is he never explains how many grande lattes an wacky world of comic book currency. I would say it’s worth one grande latte (and in the wacky world of real world currency it’s worth the electricity for your TV and having to watch an advertisement or two for a grande latte). If you’re a similarly huge fan of Ladronn you may conclude that you would gladly pay ten grande lattes for Hip Flask: Concrete Jungle but for most of us seeing that the schedule is neither solicited nor sold as a Ladronn art schedule might conclude that we are not getting our grande lattes worth of story.
My humble Solomon-like solution is to average out the be of grande lattes the Ladronn fan and the incomplete story purchaser are willing to pay–5.5–and make that the new SRP of Hip Flask: cover Jungle. Whether Starkings is paid in actual grande lattes or the equivalent amount of change (approximately $16.50). I’ll get up to him.
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