Is Tokyopop trying to make up to retailers for cutting them out with the online exclusives? Or is it just Opposite Day? Tokyopop editor Rob Tokar just mentioned on his blog that King City will be a Diamond exclusive:
I just learned that King City will be a Diamond-exclusive, which means you’ll be able to find it in finer comic shops and independent bookstores (where you can also pick up Brandon Graham’s other books, including Escalator.)
“Exclusive” must mean something different from what I’m used to, because Amazon has the book.
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The way Amazon works is that they also allow sellers to sell new and used copies through them. So they have to have listings for the books in order to do that. It doesn’t mean that Amazon.com will stock it themselves, but they might… who knows.
Well, Diamond does distribute to bookstores. All “Diamond exclusive” ever meant was that you have to have a Diamond account to purchase it. Almost any retail operation can get a Diamond account.
Just as a tie-in to that other story, in case it went unnoticed: up to now, “King City” was planned to be one of their online exclusives. It was on TPs official list and was only just taken off there.
And this just in: when I checked the current version of the list of online esclusives against its Google cache, I noticed that not only “King City”, but also “Heaven!!” and “Dragon Head” have vanished from there in the mean time. Interesting, I’d say.
http://www.tokyopop.com/212.html
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:RwBGL4fTJRUJ:www.tokyopop.com/212.html (no idea how long this will work)
According to a poster to our message board Tokyopop has also very quietly removed Dragon Head and Heaven! from their list of online exclusives.
Whoops! missed the previous post, apparently.
>>“Exclusive” must mean something different from what I’m used to, because Amazon has the book.
“Exclusive” must mean something different from what I’m used to, because Amazon has the book.
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