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Old 01-18-2022, 12:31 AM   #53
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The point is that the sales were in steady decline and then bounced back when the new writer brought in a new audience.
Well, that seems to be an incorrect assumption as well. There isn't a new audience, it just seems to be the same audience. The only difference is that the semi-regulars may have started to read the book more frequently now than during that relatively brief period when it did sell worse than 15.000 copies, but the numbers are still about the same as they were during the vast majority of Tom's run, the only significant difference is that Sophie has never written an issue that has managed to sell more than 21.000, which Tom managed to do several times over.

So ironically, you might have this reversed. If I had to guess, whenever Tom managed to get over 30.000 copies sold, he did get some new audience members every time. And since Sophie has never managed to even get close to 30.000, I'm willing to bet at least 80% of everyone reading her run had already been introduced to the book though a Waltz issue.

Oh and in case you forgot how numbers work, if issue 100 sold 50.000 and issue 101 sold 20.000, that is actually a loss in readership by 60%. And if the 5 issues before 100 had been going up since 94, then the readership was actually starting to increase well before the new writer came in.
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