#it's just that they're actually moderately competent at marketing and selling the stories they publish

[fantastic-nonsense]

comic sales are down because the industry is inaccessible and expensive, not because piracy exists

Higher piracy rates are what happens when you make buying comics expensive, difficult, platform-dependent, and inherently exclusionary while pretending trades and digital don't count as sales.

if any single comic book company decided to be a competent publishing company for even a year comic piracy rates would plummet

#comics #comic industry #dc comics #marvel comics #indie comics #there's a reason scholastic absolutely dominates the western comic industry and it's not because they're selling inherently better products #it's just that they're actually moderately competent at marketing and selling the stories they publish