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§ Brian Hibbs talks about ordering in the era of POS, FOC and TPs. It isn't all anagrams. It also isn't as true for publishers (or distributors) for that matter - all one needs...

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Geoff Boucher links to this story by Rachel Abramowitz on the fight for the heirs of Tolkien to get a share of the movie revenue: SO "THE LORD OF THE RINGS" made no money. Let...

Kremlinologists will have a goddam FIELD DAY with this long piece in the New York Times on Time Warner's new strategy entitled: Holy Cash Cow, Batman! Content Is Back at Time Warner, which details...

If you're an self-employed freelancer with no health insurance, you will probably want to read Colleen Doran's rundown of resources to get insurance: Here’s a great online resource for artists and other self employed people...

A long-running suit against former Marvel owner and billionaire financier Ron Perelman has ended with an $80 million settlement. It all goes back to when Perelman owned Marvel and wrote many notes which he...

As reported yesterday, Marvel's stock took a bit of a hit after a lower-than-expected earnings call. The stock price fell $4.07, or 11.5 percent, to $31.19, although it's up 17 percent for the year....

Marvel held its second quarter earnings calls this morning (transcript here), and while you'd expect a good result following IRON MAN and INCREDIBLE HULK, instead the stock has tumbled 3 percent today. The culprit?...

Calvin Reid catches up with Paul Levitz and discusses the new WATCHMEN craze, with 300,000, not 200K as previously reported, new copies of the classic tome on their way: “I don’t think there’s record...

...or at least that's what our cabbie told us. On the ride to the airport, this 25-year vet of San Diego confided that the mayor was going to build a brand new convention center...

Well, as you may have noticed, there's a little Hollywood shindig coming up in a few days. Whereas once, San Diego prep -- with the accompanying anxiety, dashed hopes and teeth gnashing -- was...

The Wowio/Platinum news is coming thick and fast, as founder William Lidwell has sent the following email to all Wowio publishers: I am pleased to finally and officially announce that WOWIO has been acquired by...