Standard sized
Deluxe
Omnibus
Absolute
Have added the future upcoming HCs from the edelweiss catalogue, going out to August 2015 on to the first page. These may change as books are solicited, but some interesting stuff coming up.
About the edelweiss catalogue, I noticed the "announced 1st Print:" of the books. With the exception of the Absolutes (10-15k) DC is printing from 20,000 to 125,000 of the first printings of these books. According to the sales figures I've heard on the Mayo report the sales in the direct market rarely top 5k for collected editions, in fact many books sell less then 1000 copies in initial orders. Even with re-orders these sales account for a small portion of the print runs. Either DC is has a huge warehouse stacked to the rafters with books, or the bookstore/amazon sales are doing very well. Is there any way to find out the sales outside of the direct market? If DC is really selling the amount of books it would take to justify these high print runs it seems that the comics publishing industry is much healthier than many of us thought.
Is DC also reprinting those Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibuses? Volume 1 showed up on this month's previews order from on the diamond comics website with item number NOV140344.
http://www.previewsworld.com/Home/1/...emID=nov140344
It's not up for pre-order yet but it is listed here
http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.co...sku=1401255477
"You don't ever quit. Not even to your last drop of blood. You got folks relyin' on you then you just can't afford to." Sean Noonan-Hitman #47
What other factors determine how well a book opens other then the binding??
DC omnibuses are sewn now and have been for some years but for the most part they still then glue them to the ribon/backing for reinforcement and it negates much of the benefit from the stitching. This allows the books to open more than glued bindings but they are still pretty tight and don't open flat like a purely sewn binding, especially in the front and back of the book.