<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">From: David Gerstein <<a href="mailto:ramapith@verizon.net">ramapith@verizon.net</a>>
<br> US and WDC&S are 64-page comic books, squarebound with thick covers<br>like trade paperbacks. They have at least 61 actual pages of comics per<br>issue. For each issue we charge, yes, $6.95.<br> But let's do a comparison. DC publishes Superman and Batman. Many of
<br>their comic books cost $2.50. For that $2.50 you get a 32-page comic<br>book, staple-bound, with 22 actual pages of comics per issue (this last<br>figure determined by checking a few random DC comics I had lying<br>nearby).
<br> $6.95 for 61 comics pages = 11 cents per comics page.<br> $2.50 for 22 comics pages = 11 cents per comics page.<br> From Gemstone to DC, you're actually getting exactly the same amount<br>of comics pages for your dollar, with US and WDC&S throwing in square
<br>binding at no extra charge!<br><br> I hope you don't mind my having risen to your challenge, but it looks<br>to me like our product is perfectly competitive!<br><br> David</blockquote></div><br>
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Frankly, the fact that you provide the same comic cost per page means
little to me. The fact is that you still charge a ridiculously
high price per book. I'd be more than happy to pay for a smaller
comic book, possibly even to pay a little bit MORE per page, just to
avoid dropping $7 at one blow!<br>
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As it is, Gemstone ONLY gets my money when a Don Rosa story is
published, not because I think that no other author is worth reading,
but because a story has to be REALLY special for me to go ahead and buy
a $7 comic book that month. I might actually buy the books in
other months if the price was lower.<br>
<br>
Mark Baker-Wright<br>