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Quote from user: Robb_KQuote from user: timoroFinnish Aku Ankka (Donald Duck): 324 500 copies sold each week (LT Finnish Audit Bureau of Circulations, 2008) with 1 072 000 readers. Population 2009: 5 326 314.
http://www.levikintarkastus.fi/levikintarkastus/tilastot/Circulations2008.pdf (scroll down to "Comics").

Timo
One out of every 5 Finns reads Akku Ankka!!! It is more popular in Finland than any Disney magazine ever was in USA, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands, Italy Germany and Latin America (and probably everywhere else in The World). Who could ever have predicted that in 1929, when Mickey Mouse was created?
There's no single magazine (comic book or otherwise) even close to that kind of readership* in the U.S. Absolutely amazing...

*meaning, 1/5 of the U.S. population reading it... not the actual circulation numbers.

I don't go to comic shops as much as I used to but if I do maybe I will ask for them.

Quote from user: KneonQuote from user: StefanEgmont seems to be printing almost 20 times as many copies as Boom for the Swedish market alone, although the Swedish population is less than 1/30 of the US population. Additionally, Boom is also serving the Canadian population with Disney comics.
That's incredible!

In the 1980s, Marvel used to cancel books that sold under 400,000 copies per month. In today's direct market, breaking 100,000 often puts you at the #1 sales spot. It wasn't uncommon for Gladstone to sell 80,000-100,000 issues in the 1980s, and they were selling far, far fewer books than Marvel or DC.

Compare this to Disney Adventures magazine which was, I believe, still selling 1 million books a month when it was unceremoniously CANCELLED a year or two ago. :( But DA was available in practically every grocery store and Walmart in America, whereas most comic books can only be purchased in a comic book specialty shop. (I think another digest sized Disney comic would sell insanely well if distributed through the same channels, but doubtful it'll happen anytime soon.)

Roger & rodney: Both of the comic shops in my area have gone out of business in the past few years. The only way I can get "floppy" books is to drive over an hour to the next closest shop or order them online (and pay shipping that's often a higher price than the book itself!) So I prefer graphic novels/trades not only because of the format itself, but because I can order them off Amazon and get free shipping with my Prime membership. ;)

I lived in another city across the state when I was working for Gemstone, and would you believe that none of the comic shops there carried the Gemstone books either? The shop owners told me they simply didn't sell because of the cover price. :(
That's awful Kneon. I guess there are a lot of Cities that don't sell Disney Comics.

Quote from user: timoroWe are duck nation. Well yes... or not. Either way, I just learned that we will not have extra additional boxes to the Collected Works of Carl Barks. :-(
Is the Norwegian version of the extra books the only ones that might be available to all?
Hmm, is that really definite in Finland? With respect to a possible German edition of the additional material, an Ehapa official promised two months ago that one was "in dialogue with our colleagues in Scandinavia and that we will not make a decision on a 'completion' of the CBC until everything of the material is on hand there and home and dry" (source). So far neither yes nor no ...

Quote from user: timoroIs the Norwegian version of the extra books the only ones that might be available to all?
Anyone can order the Norwegian books. Egmont in Oslo has no problems sending the Norwegian books to Sweden or Denmark (and probably not to Finland either). Norway is the only country getting all six books. The main problem is that you have to send the payment to a Norwegian bank account, which can be quite expensive. My bank wants some money from me for sending the money, and Egmont's Norwegian bank wants some money from Egmont for receiving the money. My solution was to open a bank account in Norway. There has been a discussion between non-Norwegian recepients of the Norwegian books at the DDF(R) forum, and the interesting part starts somewhere around here (mixture of Swedish, Danish and Norwegian).

It seems that four out of six books will be published in Sweden. I have no idea whether they will be available outside Sweden, but considering that Swedish is an official language of Finland, I would be surprised if they wouldn't be available in Finland.

No books are published in Denmark.

I ordered a few issues online myself back when Gemstone was publishing them but I'm not sure I want to do that with any of the Boom issues.

Quote from user: kimba_1962This is sad. 739 copies of CHRISTMAS CLASSICS? Seven-three-nine?

Evidently, Boom!'s desire to grab more young readers has had only a modest effect... and the collectors' response has been slow, as well.

I will be interested to see the LIFE OF SCROOGE sales figures.
Note that this is only the number sold to comic shops. We don't know how many copies have been sold through Amazon.com and the like.

That's good news.