Chobits Soundtrack In First Wave
May 3, 2003
Pioneer Entertainment, one of the top anime packagers and distributors in the U.S., is forming Pioneer Anime Music, a new label that will release English versions of the soundtracks from many of Pioneer's most popular anime titles. Pioneer plans to price the disks at $14.98 (srp)...
Ten Years Ago this Month in Internal Correspondence
April 29, 2003
The May 1993 issue of IC was particularly interesting, as it portrayed a comic business in bubble mode, a deal craze in comic companies, several articles that foreshadowed the impending comic crash, and anime and game sales that show similarities to the present.
'Things Are Only Just Beginning!'
April 28, 2003
Ryan Dancey, CEO of OrganizedPlay and former VP of Tabletop Roleplaying Games at Wizards of the Coast, has been hearing that OGL/d20 has 'failed' and offers this strong rejoinder.
On Doubling Up Frequency for the Summer
April 28, 2003
Michael Tierney of the Comic Book Store in Little Rock and Collector's Edition in North Little Rock, Arkansas is giving Marvel the love today for its decision to double up the frequency on key titles for the summer.
Repping Indie Publishers To Bookstores
April 23, 2003
Dallas Middaugh, who served for three years as the director of sales and marketing at Viz, LLC, has formed Redshift, a new company dedicated to providing sales representation for comic book publishers...
But There's Also a Back-up Liquidation Plan
April 20, 2003
FAO Schwartz announced last Thursday that its plan to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy was back on track and that it hoped to complete the transaction this week.
'This Is a Biggie'
April 17, 2003
Christian Petersen, CEO of Fantasy Flight Publishing, Inc. saw our article on Games Workshop stopping Internet sales of its products by independent e-commerce companies and saw it as an event with potentially huge implications for the game business.
Using Intellectual Property Rights as a Tool
April 15, 2003
Games Workshop is notifying both its direct retailer accounts and distributors that it is altering its terms of sale to prohibit the use of Games Workshop intellectual property to solicit orders over the Internet.
After April Issues
April 15, 2003
CrossGen is announcing Thursday that it is canceling its Compendia titles, Forge and Vector (nee Edge ), after their 13th issues this month.
According To Video Distributors
April 10, 2003
Most video distributors expect to see DVDs increase to about 70-75% of their sales by the end of 2003.
