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Never heard of her BTW  , but I'm pretty sure the number of people wanting a T-Shirt is close to zero. |
I'm not familiar with her but I do know that Steven King and Charlie Stross, to name two, sell tie-in merchandise so yes, there definitely is a market for such things.
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Then they are selling merchandise not comics, and the comics are advertising.
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Yup. They view content differently from how traditional publishers view content.
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Subscription service, renting not selling. And they are selling access to the content not convenience (Watch sales tank if they stop adding new content).
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I still maintain that it's convenience. Netflix put Blockbuster out of business by being more convenient. Netflix killed HD-DVD and nearly killed Blu-ray by being more convenient.
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Samplers & Freebies, essentially promotional content to convince you to buy their digital content. Also the CD's have now stopped as more people have switched over to digital from paper.
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True. It's difficult to distribute physical media with digital content. Markets change. Survival requires adaptation.
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It doesn't, when your only product is the content you can't give it away.
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Cory Doctorow and others have repeatedly disproved this assertion.