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Comic Book Publishers, Faced With Flagging Sales, Look To Streaming (nytimes.com)
Comic book publishers are facing a growing crisis: Flagging interest from readers and competition from digital entertainment are dragging down sales. Hoping to reverse the trend, publishers are creating their own digital platforms to directly connect with readers and encourage more engagement from fans. From a report: One of the biggest direct-to-consumer efforts is DC Universe, a platform from DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Digital Studios that will offer streaming content, including original and classic TV series. DC Universe is "a huge opportunity" that offers "ultimate creative control," said Jim Lee, a co-publisher of DC Entertainment. "It allows you to look at wider adaptations of the source material."
[...] The Walt Disney Company, which owns Marvel Entertainment, said last year that it would create a streaming platform that would include Marvel movies like "The Avengers" and "Guardians of the Galaxy." Smaller comic book publishers are testing their own direct-to-consumer platforms. Image Comics, the publisher of popular titles like The Walking Dead and Saga, started a direct-to-consumer platform in 2015 to sell comic book subscriptions and apparel.
[...] The Walt Disney Company, which owns Marvel Entertainment, said last year that it would create a streaming platform that would include Marvel movies like "The Avengers" and "Guardians of the Galaxy." Smaller comic book publishers are testing their own direct-to-consumer platforms. Image Comics, the publisher of popular titles like The Walking Dead and Saga, started a direct-to-consumer platform in 2015 to sell comic book subscriptions and apparel.
By using the term "SJW", you have OUTED yourself as someone who has had to deal with annoying, dishonest, power hungry, attention-seeking, hypocritical SJWs.
And your customers are not SJW's. The SJW cancer is what has destroyed comic book profitability. Great way to completely alienate your actual customers, and pander to a very vocal minority that won't ever buy comics. One day business schools will study these kind of industry mistakes like we study what happened to the railroads today.
Railroads:When they were responsible for nearly 100% of long distance shipments, how could they deliberately ignore the last few miles to their customers and lose the industry?
Comics:How could they deliberately alienate 98% of their customer base?
Funny. Every time a kerfluffle about sexism starts online it's you manbabies crying "bitches can't take a joke"
Take your projection, and stuff it up your arse, you bigoted wanker.
"I know I will be modded down for this": where's the option '-1, Asking for it'?