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<DIV><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>>>>> I'm
not sure what I would do to try to sell Disney Comics, as it would
seem</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>>>>> hard to break into
any of those three markets; so somebody would need deep</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>>>>> pockets to even
try.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2></FONT>Making suggestions is easy
when you're a total layman, with insufficient knowledge of the arcane matters of
publishing and licencing, and without the first cent to back up anything, but,
for discussion's sake, my ideas (dreams?) would be the following.</DIV>
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<DIV>Publish hardcover anthologies of Barks, Rosa, but also, at long last,
of Gottfredson & Taliaferro-- the way Gladstone did with the CBL, or
Gemstone & Dark Horse with E.C. & Warren comics respectively, or
Fantagraphics with <EM>Peanuts</EM>.</DIV>
<DIV>So-called sensitive strips can easily be dealt with in introductions and
essays, the way they do with Leonard Maltin's introductions on the DVDs.</DIV>
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<DIV>Have softcover "samplers" of those, by theme for instance, for a
larger audience.</DIV>
<DIV>Gemstone's <EM>Walt Disney Treasures</EM> was a splendid idea, which the
Walt Disney Company ought to have supported and used by associating the books
with the <EM>Walt Disney Treasures</EM> DVDs (DVD+book sets, and DVD & book
sold separately but side by side).</DIV>
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<DIV>The DVDs (<EM>Walt Disney Treasures</EM> or not) would be an excellent
medium to promote "regular" Disney comic books, and vice versa-- ads, special
offers (one DVD offered for a subscription to a title, a sample batch of comic
issues offered for two DVDs bought, ...).</DIV>
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<DIV>You should be able to buy the books & comics in Disney Stores around
the world (not just in the parks).</DIV>
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<DIV>In several cases, The Walt Disney Company ought to be more active in
promoting the books: it is in their interest that the licenced books sell well
(and forever), they can have ads in them, and I don't think distributing them in
their stores would cost much more than the distribution of toys and plush
dolls in their stores-- and an experiment could easily be made with
relatively small quantities (which would not take much more shelf space
than a few large dolls) in a few stores.</DIV>
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