Comments on: Mystery of The Day: Isn’t That A Pretty Big, Random Drop? http://blog.newsarama.com/2011/12/13/mystery-of-the-day-isnt-that-a-pretty-big-random-drop/ The Blog@ Team and prominent comics personalities share what’s on their minds. Thu, 23 May 2013 17:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: John http://blog.newsarama.com/2011/12/13/mystery-of-the-day-isnt-that-a-pretty-big-random-drop/comment-page-1/#comment-702861 John Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:03:07 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=30225#comment-702861 Diamond offers a service called Final Order Cutoff that allows customers to adjust their orders for books a few weeks before the book comes out. Since the FOC is usually done two weeks in advance, retailers ordered their number ones, but issue #1 wasn't out (or came out the same day, I can't remember which) as the FOC for issue #2, so we didn't have any idea yet how well #1 would sell. So, at least at our store, we didn't change our orders that much. However, by the time #3 was available for FOC, we had seen that Fearless was kind of a dud so we slashed orders accordingly. Diamond offers a service called Final Order Cutoff that allows customers to adjust their orders for books a few weeks before the book comes out. Since the FOC is usually done two weeks in advance, retailers ordered their number ones, but issue #1 wasn’t out (or came out the same day, I can’t remember which) as the FOC for issue #2, so we didn’t have any idea yet how well #1 would sell. So, at least at our store, we didn’t change our orders that much. However, by the time #3 was available for FOC, we had seen that Fearless was kind of a dud so we slashed orders accordingly.

]]> By: JRC http://blog.newsarama.com/2011/12/13/mystery-of-the-day-isnt-that-a-pretty-big-random-drop/comment-page-1/#comment-702838 JRC Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:52:03 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=30225#comment-702838 My guess is it has something to do w/ the backlash from Fear Itself? Fans feeling it was a dud event and that the changed from it have already been undercut? My guess is it has something to do w/ the backlash from Fear Itself? Fans feeling it was a dud event and that the changed from it have already been undercut?

]]> By: Jonathan http://blog.newsarama.com/2011/12/13/mystery-of-the-day-isnt-that-a-pretty-big-random-drop/comment-page-1/#comment-702831 Jonathan Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:12:13 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=30225#comment-702831 I can only speak for my shop obviously, but my order numbers have been pretty consistent. I do tend to order #1's and #2's at slightly higher numbers on the off chance that people will pick it up, but once we get to issue #3 I only exceed my subscriber numbers by 1 or 2 depending on the series and how many people are likely to wander in and pick up a copy. With this book I was only ordering 1 extra copy from the beginning because of the diminishing interest I was seeing in Fear Itself. I can only speak for my shop obviously, but my order numbers have been pretty consistent. I do tend to order #1′s and #2′s at slightly higher numbers on the off chance that people will pick it up, but once we get to issue #3 I only exceed my subscriber numbers by 1 or 2 depending on the series and how many people are likely to wander in and pick up a copy. With this book I was only ordering 1 extra copy from the beginning because of the diminishing interest I was seeing in Fear Itself.

]]> By: Jane A http://blog.newsarama.com/2011/12/13/mystery-of-the-day-isnt-that-a-pretty-big-random-drop/comment-page-1/#comment-702827 Jane A Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:48:21 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=30225#comment-702827 I noticed that too! Hope someone can answer. I noticed that too!

Hope someone can answer.

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