In a bid to compete more effectively with Walmart, Amazon is opening over 1,000 U.S. delivery hubs, but there’s positive news for indy retailers in a new consumer survey.

Collector's Paradise, with three Los Angeles-area comic-and-game stores, has turned over every rock in looking for workarounds, and is finding its way through.

We've been living through a live experiment in the attention economy, and the outcomes are showing that competition for geek culture is everywhere.

The hobby games business started strong in the first two months of 2020, but was then brought low and transformed; we analyze the COVID impacts on each level of the business.

Two more major regional geek culture conventions have been cancelled for 2020, creating nearly a clean sweep of cancellations for the year.

Olive Branch fell under a new COVID-19 order this week as Diamond Comic Distributors struggles to maintain staffing.

The cancellations of conventions continue into Q3 of 2020, and the outlook for the remainder of the year has become bleak. Here are the latest conventions to cancel for 2020.

This week, Scott Thorne thanks publishers for the support programs they offered for game stores during the COVID-19 crisis.

A sharp divergence between brick and mortar sales and ecommerce is emerging, with online sales expected to rise 18%.

In a branded fan event, the host controls everything: the program, the vendors, the signage, the data, and every jot and tittle of the fan experience.