Good News/Bad News. Graphic Novel Clearance.
A number of Graphic Novel titles are on sale at the B&N site at the moment, and they’re doing well enough it’s skewing the overall GN rankings there. Here, have some:
The good news: cheap comics.
The Bad news: this is a clearance, folks, purging titles from stores and from the warehouse. These may not be available (from this source) again.
Looking at similar sales at both Borders and Books-a-Million turns up squat for manga/graphic novels. In BAMM’s case, I know it’s because they were selling quite a bit of ‘bargain’ manga throughout all of 2009, and now are sold out; in Border’s case, I don’t think they bother to mark down any comics — or at least they won’t this year because they recently expanded these sections (their new ‘Ink’ in-store shops) to fill the void left when they took out the music & DVD departments. Plenty of shelf space, for now, so no need for markdowns.
And Amazon: Amazon’s byzantine sales-and-price labyrinths give me a headache — sure, used books to be had for pennies and all that but those are from third parties, not Amazon-proper, and I’m not going to try and grok it tonight. Amazon, or at least some sellers accessible through Amazon, are like clearance-all-year-long, but you also get what you pay for.
FTC disclaimer: B&N currently signs my paychecks, if that matters to you. This post was not suggested, vetted, or authorised by my employer; I’m just pointing you to cheap books, & trying to explain why Batman: Year One Hundred and Defenders : Indefensible are suddenly springing to prominence in my online sales rankings.
