{"id":2247,"date":"2009-01-19T20:35:12","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T01:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2009-01-19T20:35:12","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T01:35:12","slug":"diamond-order-minimums-beginning-of-the-end-for-the-direct-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=2247","title":{"rendered":"Diamond Order Minimums: Beginning of the end for the Direct Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to write a full post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreporter.com\/index.php\/initial_reaction_to_diamond_raising_minimums_ending_print_iteration_of_adul\/\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>, but I wanted to get this out there early:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Diamond&#8217;s new order minimums increase is going to hurt the DM worse than Marvel&#8217;s Heroes World Debacle did. It is essentially the beginning of the end for the Direct Market, in my estimation. Specifically because Diamond Comics Distributors is a monopoly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, yeah. All the reasoning is coming later (like: <em>Scott Pilgrim Volume 1<\/em> would not have made the new retail cut off, based on its original initial orders). This Is Not Good.<\/p>\n<p>Fun Fact: Do you know what it costs to be a direct market retailer? $600 minimum order each month. A cost between 4 and 10 times less than what it costs to be a publisher, apparently. Figure that one out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to write a full post on this, but I wanted to get this out there early: Diamond&#8217;s new order minimums increase is going to hurt the DM worse than Marvel&#8217;s Heroes World Debacle did. It is essentially the beginning of the end for the Direct Market, in my estimation. Specifically because Diamond Comics &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=2247\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Diamond Order Minimums: Beginning of the end for the Direct Market&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2248,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions\/2248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}