I love when other groups deem affiliate links and ads as a way for a spec site to make money. Well, yes, running a website isn’t cheap. You put a lot of work into your spec site but these are also non-invasive tactics to cover the costs of running a speculation website. You don’t have to click the links and even if you do, you don’t have to buy the product being linked to. It’s like billboards on the side of the road, are you stopping at every Taco Bell sign you see? I hope not, Taco Bell is nasty…
I will acknowledge this and say yes, I hear what you’re saying. I do think, however, that this might be the wrong way to look at it. The more appropriate thing to say is that there’s no built in significant market. That doesn’t mean there won’t be a market, it just means it might not look like the “put it in the cart pre-FOC, pre-cover release” crowd. I’m not saying there will be a market in the end, just that we shouldn’t assume there won’t be because one particular crowd didn’t like it on first pass!
Yea I don’t mind clicking on links to comic websites and helping you guys get a little kick back to keep this site going. I don’t ever see you guys saying, you gotta buy this book, click here to buy it, its gonna be so hot and make you money blah blah blah. You guys dont do that crap so it’s all good. You guys were the first site I found when searching comic book speculation. It was CHU, CBSI and then Jimmy Linguini’s site.
And actually most affiliate programs and ad programs in the details say we can’t directly tell people to click links, has to be out of genuine interest.
I know for a while, Key Collector would tell people in their email campaigns to “click the links” if they’re going to buy from eBay so they get commissions, which is a big no no according to their guidelines for their affiliate program when you drill down into them.
Has it been stated what kind of publishing numbers we are looking at for the first issue? I would gather it would be somewhat large although the demand may strip supply in a short time.
I am curious to see how high it is. My guess is that it will be lower than expected due to a lack of store variants and higher ratio variants, and the lack of promotion relative to Eternals and KIB.
The more interesting question is how the back issue market responds if a High Republic D+ cartoon/live action show is announced on Thursday. That could lead to some crazy up front action.
While I don’t think it will be as big/important as the Marvel stuff if High Republic ever gets made into a series, don’t forget there’s also an all-ages IDW series (High Republic Adventures) that might have different characters.
You know…a few “ifs”…but if this series takes off, and if Avar Kriss becomes a big, ongoing key player…that 1:25 for Rise of Kylo Ren #3 will really become a monster of a book.
We got the internet on my first compaq presario in 1997 and I’d say we were late for the “early days” of the internet back then. I’m sure there were people speculating on comics back then too.
