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You definitely don't.

Thank you - very much!

That's the hard part, but word of mouth is a good tool. Word of mouth can help make or break a comic.

Definitely. Positive reviews certainly help, but word of mouth by retailers, readers and fans is huge. There's a great article (in PDF form) over ...

The problem I've noticed with most (if not all) indy publishers is the quality of the artwork. If the books were more attractive then people might ask for them and retailers would order them regardless of who the distributor was.

Well, I don't think I suck (for instance, those interested can take ...

I think that there should be more comic book distributors, specially afer what Diamond did to Claypool.

What indy publishers need is a distributor who'll look after their interests and help them grow the same way Diamond helps their Premiere line-up.

Oh, you're speaking to the converted here. I ...

In SDCC I attended a "So You Want To Be A Comic Book Retailer" panel where they said that Cold Cut Distribution (a distributor that mainly handles indies) is for sale.

VEI could just buy it and use their distributon network to deal with retailers, heh.

While I believe you were joking, I should ...

I just wanted to add that I actually went ahead and ordered my copy of Harbinger: The Beginning through Amazon.com and I received it this morning.

Now, what's interesting is that I'm in Canada and getting the book through Amazon.com was no problem. However, I used to run a bookstore here in Ottawa ...