Format and schedule change for Donald Duck Weekly, Norway

[Kriton Kyrimis]

ERLEND:

 > For the Greek comics, I find it strange they´re not only changing format,
 > but also stretching the contents.

As I said, I'm not sure that they are stretching the contents. I don't have 
the original Italian comics, and the new publisher avoids reprints, so I can't 
compare with a previous publication.

A quick comparison between two scans in I.N.D.U.C.K.S. shows that they are 
probably not stretching the images, as I thought, and that it is merely the 
horizontal margins that are almost eliminated. Check, e.g., the first page 
scans for I TL 3050-1:
http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+3050-1

 > What does Disney think about that?

The new publisher seems to have formed some kind of partnership with Disney 
Greece, so I'm sure that Disney is agreeing with everything they are doing.

Despite the usual nagging, the new publisher is doing mostly a great job, 
improving on the foundation built by the previous publisher: new stories, 
instead of reprints, with more pages per comic book than before, at a lower 
cost per page (though higher cost per comic book). They even practically gave 
away the first 14 volumes of their edition of the Carl Barks Library, so that 
people would not hesitate buying the next volumes, when they appear, because 
they won't match the previous publisher's more expensive version, which had 
stopped at volume 14. (ISBNs have already been assigned to the remaining 
volumes, so we have high hopes of seeing the series continued some time this 
year.)

     Kriton.
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