Wouter wrote:<br>> In Holland sales are dropping. This may also have to do with what the<br>> producers of the comics do; the choices they are making. In Holland there is<br>> nog much varitie these days. <br><br>
A great example of this is the Dutch magazine Katrien (<a href="http://www.wolfstad.com/dcw/netherlands/katrien/">http://www.wolfstad.com/dcw/netherlands/katrien/</a>), which comes out 6 times per year. The magazine was launched in 1999, and from 2006 the publisher suddenly started reprinting old issues. So for instance the stories in issue #6 of 2006 are exactly the same as
those in issue #6 of 2000. The problem is that they don't publicize this fact, so they're selling old issues with a new date on the cover! Unaware buyers may be getting issues they
already have. The reasoning behind reprinting the issues is that the kids who bought the magazine six
years ago are now grown up, and new kids are reading the stories now. I think that this is fine, but they should be honest about this and print it on the cover. Isn't this wrong?<br><br>- Arthur<br>