This week we spoke to Jason Canty of Angry Viking Press out of Boston, Massachusetts. He stated that he has a relationship with Diamond Comic Distributors. Jason has relationships with artists in IDW which is one of the major publishers. Jason has raised money on kickstarter before by taking out web ads to meet his goal.
What Jason explained was that the kids go to the comic store - typically on a Wednesday when Diamond makes their delivery. They sell the books to the retailer. We (the publisher - Jason and us) provide content retailer. His book "Evil Diva" retails at $ 13.99 but for the sake of argument. Let's say the book retails at $ 10.00 flat so the numbers work out nicely. Diamond takes more than half which he splits with the retailer. That leaves less than half to us. The Publisher takes his cut leaves us with ours.
Diamond wants between 96 to 200 pages. They also want to know if there is plans to continue. With the big boys like DC and Marvel they put out 28 to 36 pages every month or twice a month. From the Indies, they would like to know if there will be a follow up book again 96 to 200 pages.
Jason is providing us some free publicity. In promoting his company at the San Diego Comic Con next week, he will be printing off 1000 flyers with the cover on one side and one of Andrea's pages on the other side with his logo and our social media next to it. The flyers will be on a table that he is sharing. He will have the flyers on the table. He won't just hand them out to people. So if someone wants one, they have to pick one up.
We talked briefly about toys. He goes through an company that manufactures in China. That is happening as we speak so we will see if that business relationship will work out.
We talked briefly about translations. He pays a translator to translate English into Japanese at a discounted rate. There will be international versions of this book.
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