<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 3/13/2003 8:51:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, SRoweCanoe@aol.com writes:<BR>
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>oh, you are using what apparently is USA comic book direct market <BR>
>term for TPBs ----instead of the standard USA publishing term TPB (in <BR>
>regular publishing the albums would be a subset of TPB).<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">I used the comic market term *because* we're talking about comics. I didn't mean to confuse anyone... sorry!<BR>
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>Anybody use the term album besides Gladstone?</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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I've seen it used by several other comic book publishers, I think. It's roughly the size of a traditional record "album," I believe... hence the name.<BR>
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Thanks for reading this nonsense,<BR>
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Dane Martin</FONT></HTML>