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Comix Experience 2012 Best Sellers: Books
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on December 31, 2012
Categories: Retailing/Industry
We sell more books than periodicals (dollars this year: 55% books v 40% comics), so this is my favorite category! I believe this is a wonderfully amazingly diverse list of material sold.
Comix Experience 2012 Best Sellers: Comics
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The full year is now over for us, so how the hell did we do?
Comix Experience Best Sellers Comics: The First Half of 2012
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on July 2, 2012
Categories: Retailing/Industry
Same thing, just looking at comics!
Comix Experience Best Sellers Books: The First Half of 2012
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Categories: Retailing/Industry
From Jan 1 to Jun 30, here’s what’s selling at Comix Experience.
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on January 3, 2012
Categories: Retailing/Industry
I’m slightly embarrassed to say I’ve never thought to check for this before, but how about looking at things in terms of publisher breakdowns?
Comix Experience 2011 Best Sellers: Books
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on January 1, 2012
Categories: Retailing/Industry
Books are the majority of what I sell (this year: 56% of sales vs 40% on comics), so let’s look at those!
Comix Experience 2011 Best Sellers: Comics
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New Year, so how’d the last one do? Let’s Find out!
Comix Experience Best Sellers: Comics, first half of 2011
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on July 1, 2011
Categories: Retailing/Industry
I’m looking at my half-year performance, so you can too!
Comix Experience Best Sellers: Books, first half of 2011
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Same thing as previous, but looking at things that have a spine.
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on January 3, 2011
Categories: Retailing/Industry
Last one! Again, under the cut…
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Here’s a look at the top selling “Books” for Comix Experience in 2010, under the cut…
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Categories: Retailing/Industry
Hey, it’s a New Year, which means it is time to look back at performance. I’ll place it under the Jump for those who Just Don’t Care…
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on September 29, 2010
Categories: Retailing/Industry
I’ve had Point-of-Sale installed for just over 3 years now. One spiffy thing is that it is pretty easy to pull out sales data in specific and in general. So, I yanked all of my book format sales for DC this morning (no comics included!), and found out that over the last 3 years I’ve sold ~$183k in dollars of DC TPs. Of that, $88k is from Vertigo branded books. $68k is from books with the DC bullet on the spine. $25k is WS, and the various imprints there. $2k is from “other” imprints (Piranha, Humanoids, and so on) If you were to divide the WS books into “closer to DC” and “closer to Vertigo” (ie: PLANETARY, PROMETHEA, ASTRO CITY,… Read More…
Comix Experience Best-Sellers: Comics, the first half of 2010
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on July 5, 2010
Categories: Retailing/Industry
Same thing here: our best selling COMIC BOOKS, roughly the first 100, sorted straight by pieces (I’m skipping the dollars calc on this one) — under the cut
Comix Experience Best-Sellers: Books, the first half of 2010
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Categories: Retailing/Industry
The nice thing about POS is being able to just spit out reports of what’s doing what. What follows is our best selling books for the first half of 2010. It is below the cut!
Put an asterisk next to it, JJ!
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on January 13, 2010
Categories: Retailing/Industry
It is the time of the year for Looking Back at total sales and all of that, and John Jackson Miller does some excellent heavy lifting on that score. But there’s something that I don’t see any commenter making a point of, and I think it is a REALLY significant impact that people-who-aren’t-retailers seem to be forgetting: In February, Diamond began a major warehouse move. More or less the entire month of February there “weren’t” reorders on any product shipping from Diamond. Even once they “fixed” that issue (which memory tells me stretched into early April on many titles), there were HORRIBLE cockups in fill rates, accuracy, damages, etc all through the summer and fall. It wasn’t really until 4th… Read More…
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on January 1, 2010
Categories: Retailing/Industry
And here, below the jump, is the “Comics” portion of our show Again, like before, let’s show first the number of UNITS sold (note that I’ve scrubbed out things like Quarter Books) (Also note that, again, because of the way Diamond works, and MOBY interacts with it, some things might say something like “4th printing” when, in fact, that’s any and all printings added together)(doing the cleanup would really take too much time) AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #583BATMAN AND ROBIN #1BATMAN AND ROBIN #2 4TH PTGBUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #21 CHEN CVRBUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #22 CHEN CVRBLACKEST NIGHT #1 (OF 8)BATMAN AND ROBIN #3BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #23 CHEN CVRBUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #24 CHEN CVRBATMAN #686 (NOTE PRICE)BATMAN AND ROBIN… Read More…
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Alright, here’s a look at the Top Selling Books at Comix Experience in 2009, under the cut. First off, here is the list sorted by PIECES SOLD (quantity). I’m not going to bother noting where the ties are, or, for that matter, adding the placing numbers, or cleaning up the listings (eg: the “new ptg” that got appended to LOEG — that’s just what we’ve sold, total, over the year, but when a new printing came in to Diamond, that changed their data listing, which, once merged into MOBY, changed MY data listing. Such is life) This is the Top 100 (well, 107 thanks to ties) LOEG III CENTURY #1 1910 NEW PTGBATMAN WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE CAPED CRUSADER HCWATCHMEN… Read More…
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Here’s the first in a series of posts detailing Comix Experience’s performance in 2009. I’ll hide these below the jump for people who Just Don’t Care. Overall, CE was down by 4% for the year. The amount we’re down is almost exactly the amount of business we lost during the nearly 2 month period of construction on Divisadero St., so I don’t feel so bad about that, really — without the construction we appear to have been flat, and in this economy, that seems pretty alright to me. Overall, “books” accounted for 53% of our sales, while “comics” were 42%. I believe this is the widest spread that we’ve shown yet — still BOTH categories are absolutely critical to my… Read More…
CE ’09: The First Half: The Comics
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on July 1, 2009
Categories: Retailing/Industry
Now we’ll look at the periodical comics. Again, under the jump… Again, we’ll start with sorting it by PIECES sold. Yeah, the quarter book permutations win (and “10 for a buck” is counted as ONE item, not TEN), followed by Barack Obama and Spidey, followed by “back issue” as a generic item, then we get into the BUFFY’s and other stuff. You’ll recall that our ’08 list was ABSOLUTELY dominated by BUFFY, but it spreads out a bit from there. Here’s the list: Quarter Book – 10 for a BuckQuarter Book – SingleAMAZING SPIDER-MAN #583Back IssueBUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #21 CHEN CVRBATMAN AND ROBIN #1BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #22 CHEN CVRDollar BookBUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #23 CHEN CVRBATMAN #686 (NOTE… Read More…
CE ’09: The First Half: The Books
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Categories: Retailing/Industry
Since the first half of the fiscal year just closed, let’s take a quick look at Comix Experience’s best-sellers, year-to-date. Below the jump for those of you who don’t care about these things… Because of the formatting issues, I’ve decided to not attach ranking numbers to the chart. I figure you guys can count just fine! I’ve gone a little past #100 — this is actually our top 127 best selling items, because I wanted to have my own book appear on the list, ha! This first list is PIECES sold. Yes, the first item is marked down books on sale. And, finally, something else breaks the Vulcan Death Grip that WATCHMEN had last year. (Totally sorry for all of… Read More…
