Comments on: Tokyopop creator reports non-licensed titles going web-only http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/06/14/tokyopop-creator-reports-non-licensed-titles-going-web-only/ The Blog@ Team and prominent comics personalities share what’s on their minds. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:55:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Mark Adams http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/06/14/tokyopop-creator-reports-non-licensed-titles-going-web-only/comment-page-1/#comment-445300 Mark Adams Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:15:34 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=8483#comment-445300 While I pity some of the great-looking OELs getting nerfed from print to measely web… I do have to say that a lot of the OELs that Tokyopop blindly signed up and printed DO deserve to get the demotion to web. There are quite a bit of OELs that do suck. At the bookstores, those are usually the manga books still in pristine condition. Whereas, the good OELs do tend to get read a lot and misused. Anyway, my point is, its a shame that Tokyopop is pushing all their non-licensed materials to the web. I feel that they should still print the ones that are great and do bring in the good considerable numbers… not in orders but good numbers in sell-through at the stores. A lot… and I mean A LOT of OELs really suck and they end up just collecting dust at the bookstore shelves. Hell, even comic book shop owners just end up giving the bad ones away for free since they cant even sell them for a buck. Oh well. While I pity some of the great-looking OELs getting nerfed from print to measely web… I do have to say that a lot of the OELs that Tokyopop blindly signed up and printed DO deserve to get the demotion to web. There are quite a bit of OELs that do suck. At the bookstores, those are usually the manga books still in pristine condition. Whereas, the good OELs do tend to get read a lot and misused.

Anyway, my point is, its a shame that Tokyopop is pushing all their non-licensed materials to the web. I feel that they should still print the ones that are great and do bring in the good considerable numbers… not in orders but good numbers in sell-through at the stores. A lot… and I mean A LOT of OELs really suck and they end up just collecting dust at the bookstore shelves. Hell, even comic book shop owners just end up giving the bad ones away for free since they cant even sell them for a buck.

Oh well.

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