Distribution of Gemstone's comics

[Gerstein, David DK - ECN]

	Hey Sigvald,

>My friendly suggestion is that our friends in Gemstone should learn from
our
>friends in Egmont (like Byron Erickson or David Gerstein) who are very well
>experienced in effective distribution of Disney comics.

	Er... no, we're not.

	Not Byron or myself, anyway. Byron, the other story editors, and I
all work for Egmont Creative A/S (formerly Egmont Comic Creation), which
functions as a creative studio- and a creative studio ONLY. Egmont Creative
makes new Disney comic stories and puts together compilations of old ones,
but we *don't* actually do any printing or distributing ourselves.
	The publishing and distributing is done by Copenhagen's Egmont
Serieforlaget A/S and other, similar publishing companies in other
countries; one publishing company for each Egmont-affiliated country where
Disney comics appear. These publishing companies are owned by Egmont, but
are not the same business entity as Egmont Creative. They are independent of
us.
	So don't ask Byron or me to tell you something about how
distribution ought to work. We may not know how our publishers are doing it,
and more importantly, we aren't required to know.

	Friends don't let friends use ducks.

	Best, David