Disney-comics digest #241.

Don Rosa 72260.2635 at CompuServe.COM
Mon Feb 14 15:30:17 CET 1994


ROB REEVES:
	Yes, that boxed set of comics WAS available at Disney Stores,
but surely you realize the VAST difference in that item and in selling
actual comics for reading! That high-priced phony-collectible was
designed to be sold to the typical American "collectibles-lout"... it
was NOT to be opened - the comics were sealed in plastic which the buyer
(in that collectible-lout system) KNEW he was NOT to open and (horrors)
READ the material. And this repackaging of the comics removed them from
the category of a periodical publication which would need resupplying
and reordering and LOTS of paper work and effort on the store's part;
that boxed set of comics was exactly like the T-shirts and cuddly Ariel
dolls. Stocking it was easy, and buying it required no intellectual
involvement whatsoever.

WILLIAM HATHAWAY
	Just as reading in America is alive and well among a select
group, using INTERNET (which involves reading) is also alive and well;
but you do know that is AGAIN a very tiny, select, "elite" group of
people. And if you're saying that all or even most computer users are
well-read, it has always been quite a joke to me to read some of the
messages posted by young computer-whiz kids, which seem to show that
they have little or no command of the language, and obviously read as
little as any other Americans. 




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