<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 3/13/2003 8:32:34 PM Eastern Standard Time, Danehog@aol.com writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">An album is generally larger than a TPB, which is the size of a traditional comic book. As I've said, I prefer the album size *because* it's larger, but most people prefer the easier-to-store TPB format.<BR>
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oh, you are using what apparently is USA comic book direct market term for TPBs ----instead of the standard USA publishing term TPB (in regular publishing the albums would be a subset of TPB). + Anybody use the term album besides Gladstone?<BR>
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+ so why does the direct market use a term that would confuse all non-direct market buyers and sellers?<BR>
steven rowe<BR>
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