Why not just mail comics directly to customers?

Why not just mail comics directly to customers?

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They don't want to pay for lost and damaged copies. Same reason anyone has distributors.

But they don't have a distributor

The economy of scale would break down.
Each comic would have it's cover price increased by the postage cost and you'd have thousands more individual issues floating around the US postal system. Which is not what they need right now.

to much work

Because then sales would reflect what customers are actually buying and not what publishers are forcing on comic book stores.

Require a minimum quantity for orders, like many distributors for other products do. That's what the comic industry did before diamond established a stranglehold on it.

this, mostly. Comics are dirt cheap to produce just as physical items. The right way to do things would be to set up mini-distributors, or in-house run shipping centers at a few locations around the world/country. Each center would get a fixed shipment of comics based on the regional population size.
Comics which sell well, get back orders and get reprinted. Comics which don't sell well, get limited runs. Cutting out the store would also cut the cost of the comic, a little.
It would mean the death of the comic book store, but to be real, comic book stores aren't the hospitable friendly refuges of nerddom pop culture makes them out to be. That died in the 90s and exists as a marketing gimmick based off mythos and nostalgia.
They're stocked with board games, home decor, and pointless junk. Most that I've seen sell very high cost figurines, with very little in the way of novels, and books. Independent books are rare as fuck, as are imports. Most aren't willing to order anything outside of standard distributor stock, as the cleintel buy it because there's no other options. The people working there are always trying to upsell due to managerial pressure, and get burned out of the passion, if it ever existed at all, in a few weeks.
I hate comic book stores.

based

Heh was about to say this.
Based.

>won't somebody please think of poor Disney and AT&T

Comics are trash and should just die out.

In Italy there is a similar thing for the Mickey Mouse comic if you subscribe they send it to you by mail.

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Comics used to do it and distributors should have embraced doing so or at least be making plans to do so. Have a way for customers with pull lists to pay to have their comics shipped to them. Amazon and Ebay are big because of the ease of shipping and lowered costs.

This was how I got copies of the New Teen Titans Baxter format because they didn't sell it in drug stores like the news print comics.

IMO. (I got banned for saying this on reddit) but I think some part of the reason why that comics are no longer sold in places like convienient stores is because most of them are owned by foreigners (muslims). I think that the reason that they ban comics is because they probably see them as a type of idol worship. another aspect is China and Manga. China and Japan does not allow American comic books from Marvel and DC to be sold in their countries. And they flood the market with Manga and Anime and probably pay people to shill them online. And as a result kids today prefer Manga more than comics.

>China and Japan does not allow American comic books from Marvel and DC to be sold in their countries.
No? Japan definitely has translations of the Big 2.

Your post is so stupid I cannot see straight anymore.

Because only developed countries have a national postal service, but a large quantity of the comic book audience is in the United States, which is about to disband theirs.

They do, or at least DC does.
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They do subscriptions. I've heard that they come several weeks after street date and are usually bent.

Big problem with comics is some things are still done the way they are simply because that's how they've ALWAYS been done. Or at least going back to the '80s or so. Also in part because simultaneous releases are something industry strives for aka new issues released at the same time in all comic stores. Of course, we all know stores sell to collectors under the table before actual release, but their privately owned nature basically means industry has to enforce fairness.

it's also pretty much why returnability is a no-go for comics, which in turn also means regular stores refuse to stock them unlike with other publications.

My LCS is doing that actually. But since Diamond is shut down they can only ship the stuff they have in their shop.

Cool they have the giants, I might actually do that now

Problem with comic book stores, and why giving customers ANY other way of buying comics, is new issues are basically just bait to get you there. Such stores are relying on high foot traffic and people buying more than what they specifically went there to get in the first place. This maybe made sense way back when issue was a dollar so you'd walk away like a bandit with a box of comics you wanted to try out, but nowadays when each issue is $5 that's simply not viable anymore.

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Which is funny because letting customers buy directly would pretty much serve the same role as returnability. Shit would simply not get sold.

gee i wonder why you got banned from reddit

You played the racist card way to fucking quickly user

Hahahaha.

Listen youngster, when Dave Sim decided to collect the High Society graphic novel (issues #26–50 of Cerebus), he wanted to do it as a mail order to his readers. Cut out the middle man. Distributors and comic shop retailers where furious with him, as they argued that they where instrumental to his success as an independent comic. They threatened that if he did that they would stop carrying his book. Under such pressure, he backed down and sold it through comic shops first, then by mail order some time after a street date release.

Point of the story, comic shops have a lot of power to stop that.

That's not true for all stores. New issues for pull customers pay all the bills at mine, we sell a figure about once a month not including the ones regulars preordered, random toys or merch that's been sitting for years when people from out of town come in, and only about $100 worth of back issues a week if we don't get a whale who drops $1000 on keys.

I remember Archie Comics used to do this (maybe still do, I dunno).