Publishing: Canadian publishers nearly absent in the direct market in 01/2009

According to Comic Book Resources’ look at the Diamond sales charts for comic book sales in January 2009:

CANADIAN COMPANIES & MARKET SHARE

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Ranked at #15 is UDON Entertainment

UDON sold 8.353 copies of Street Fighter Legends: Chun-Li #1 (which placed #170 in Diamond’s top 300 comics sold) to the direct market at a cover price of US$3.95.

Total reported dollars US$32,994.35

UDON had a 0.15% market share of the top comics in January 2009, and 0.17% of the total dollar share.

gp50Ranked at #20 is Aardvark-Vanaheim

AV sold 4,307 copies of Glamourpuss #5 (which placed #227 in Diamond’s top 300 comics sold) to the direct market at a cover price of US$3.00.

Total reported dollars US$12,921.00

AV had 0.08% market share of the top comics in January 2009, and 0.07% of the total dollar share.

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One thing to take into consideration – while the books may be priced at $3 or $3.95 – they are sold by Diamond to retailers at approximately one half of that price —- so while the POTENTIAL end earnings of say, Glamourpuss #5 is $12, 921.00 at the retail level (provided nobody discounted – even less likely) – the chances are that the actual earnings, before Diamond’s cut, was more like US$6,460.50.

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No Canadian companies showed up in the top 100 trades sales charts.