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I recently purchased this book collecting the much maligned mini-series at my local Barnes and Noble bookshop, and after doing some looking, it seems that it shipped in March 2012...how did BOOM manage this if they lost the Disney license?

It shipped well before March. I got a copy back in November or thereabouts.

What section of Barnes & Noble was it in?

Quote from user: Charlie BrownQuote from user: snowpeckWhat section of Barnes & Noble was it in?
Most Barnes & Noble stores have a few comics. I got the first volume of the new Carl Barks collection here.
Wouldn't such book stores NOT carry traditional comic books, but only hardbound books that are collections of comic book stories and comics and semi-hardbound thicker comic albums?

Most Barnes and Nobles that I've entered in recent years have a "Graphic Novels" section, which is where I suspect the Rightful Owners tpb and Vol. I of Fantagraphics' Carl Barks Library would be found, while some also have those four-sided spinning racks displaying current traditional comics, like used to be more common in convenience stores, pharmacies, newstands, general bookstores, and other such direct market outlets.

Quote from user: DebbieThe Barnes and Noble I got my copy of DuckTales: Rightful Owners at (as well as another local Barnes and Noble) had it stocked in the children's section. The Barks and Gottfredson books were stocked in the humor section with the newspaper strip and Simpsons Comics collections (and only one of the two stores had Barks' book). Similar odd decisions seem to be made with Archie Comics trades, with some ending up in the children's section, The Best of Archie Comics 400+ page mega paperback in humor, and the Kevin Keller hardcover in with Graphic Novels.
How about the FantaGraphics Popeye and Peanuts books?

Barks and Gottfredson weren't quite in the "Toilet Humor" section, they were with the comic strip collections, alongside such books as The Complete Peanuts and Fantagraphics' Pogo book ad well as Bloom County, The Simpsons, the endless selection of Garfield books (does anyone actually buy Garfield books anymore?). I'd have thought they'd be in with either the Graphic Novels/Manga section or the kids section, myself...but to actually find Disney comics in a mainstream bookstore is a step in the right direction (the last time I saw them in such stores was back in the 80's in those huge Abbeville Press books).
Now if we could just get Walt Disney's Comics and Stories and Uncle Scrooge back as monthly comics/magazines/digest/SOMETHING in the USA...(wishful thinking on my part....)

Debbie, I should've anticipated that the term "toilet reading" was open to being misunderstood. I didn't mean toilet humor. What I meant, more aptly, was bathroom reading material. That's how I think of those Garfield books (Garfield At Large, etc.) and the joke books that I see in the humor section. The kind of thing given as a gift by perhaps a backwoods relative!
What's interesting is that while those Garfield books, or those Family Circus books with the dimensions of a standard paperback novel, are technically comic strip lessons, their production values and the way they're marketed is clearly in a lower class than the wave of the past several years of prestige comic strip collections from Fantagraphcis, IDW, etc. Like you, I scoff at the idea of Garfield books still being around. Slapping together a few dozen strips (sometimes chronologically, sometimes possibly not -- clearly not for collectors, the original dates weren't cited) from a title that was popular at the time the books were published, I'm glad that type of thing is no longer the only kind of strip collections available, now superseded the abundance of prestige, collector-geared tomes. Those cheap Garfield, Family Circus, etc. books are best left a thing of the past, IMHO.
Anyway, a resounding "yes", we want Uncle Scrooge and WDC&S -- and hopefully, Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, too! -- back in regular publication in the U.S.!
And, if someone who works at Barnes and Noble corporate headquarters charged with designating in which departments certain books will be stocked happens to be reading this, please consider relocating the Carl Barks Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge collections and the Floyd Gottfredson Mickey Mouse collections, all published by Fantagraphics, to both Graphic Novels and Children's, removing them from Humor entirely! ;)