Re: Non-Glossy Paper

Brian Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> On 27 Nov 2003 08:25:06 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glenn Simpson)
> wrote:
> 
> >And Brian - I can't pretend to know for sure, but I feel like there
> >must be more people out there who would like to be buying more comics
> >than they can currently afford to.
> 
> I don't know, I certainly don't know any of them.  Then again, the
> people I know all have good paying jobs and can afford to buy pretty
> much what they want.
> 
> I still don't see how lowering the cost would really increase
> circulation consistently.  People read what they enjoy.  While you'd
> get the lookie-loos who check out other titles if it was cheap, it's
> only the strength of the stories that would keep them.  Would you read
> a comic that you didn't enjoy, regardless of how cheap it was?

Of course not. But right now I'm spending an average of $100 a month,
which gets me about 75% of what DC and Marvel put out. But I'd like to
buy more. There's a few DC and Marvel books I've held off on. There's
stuff from Image and Dark Horse and Crossgen that looks good. But I
can't justify spending more than that $100 a month, certainly not the
$200 or more I could easily spend.

On the other hand, if I could get the books I'm getting now for $50,
I'd go out and spend the other $50 on some of that stuff I've been
holding off on.  Is that really such odd behavior that you can't see a
lot of other people doing so?