Do you have a roster of title that will be disappearing?

And I don't wanna sound retarded, but what exactly Print-On-Demand mean? You can order your own comics in bulk? Stores can order them? I'm just confused and never heard of the term. ;D

No worries! There are a few different people that are trying to calculate what sort of titles are going to be disappearing so that people realize the serverity of this sort of change. You can check out this link for a little better understanding: [link]
Basically, almost all Indy comics will no longer be distributed by Diamond. This is because there are only a select handful that will be able to make the benchmark. Blue Monday from Oni, for example, would make it. Most issues of 30 days of Night? Probably not. A lot of Marvel and DC books will also be seeing a cut if we don't find an alternate solution as well. Yes, a lot of people don't realize that many of the books they think of as big name only sell less than 300 copies NATION WIDE.
Another comment: "a typical $3.00 comic would have to sell over 2,100 copies to meet the benchmark. Vado continued, saying that very few graphic novels published by smaller publishers meet that total." Taken from here: [link]

Print on Demand is what a lot of people seeing book printing as a whole moving towards. What this means is that you don't print a bunch of books and ship them to a store and hope they are sold. Instead you order only as many copies as people order and pay for, and thus only print that many copies as well. There would be nothing wrong with a store still ordering a bunch of copies and putting them on shelves, but you probably wouldn't be able to send back the copies that didn't sell, which is something Diamond does for people. This would be a liability, because of you order too many books and they don't sell then you're in the hole. So, there's pros and cons to a print on demand service.

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I think there are a lot of pros though for amatuer / emerging artists (like myself) who mostly rely on pre-ordering and / or convention sales. They look like they have good rates for each book. I think i will look into that Monkey Comics website for the future of getting my work out there. XD I have little hope to get my stuff published otherwise.

This has been enlightening!

Hey dude, thanks for the heads-up. I hadn't heard anything about this, man oh man.

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Yeah, I think for a lot of us coming out and hoping to get into this industry, it's really important that we know about this...

It's almost like going back to the Dark Ages of comics (back when people thought you could only cater to kids >.>, and the worst part is that this profoundly affecting move is being made by people NOT EVEN INVOLVED IN THE CREATION OF THE PRODUCT.

*breathes fire*

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Yeah, its ridiculous! I think one of the most disappointing parts is just that we let this one corporation dominate the distribution market and now they think they can do whatever they want with the industry.

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You bet! Its pretty silly stuff.

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Glad you got something out of it! Spread the word about the alternative sites and solutions so that people aren't so scared and intimidated by Diamond!

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Okay! <33