Who Wants Some Statistics About French Comics?

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We have some statistics from some of the profitable comedian ebook publishing international locations on this planet,, France.

In the wake of the Angouleme Comic Art Festival in France that hosted round 200,000 attendees and comedian ebook creators, publishers and exhibitions from internationally (however largely France), we’ve some statistics from some of the profitable comedian ebook publishing international locations on this planet, courteys of the Guardian newspaper. All I wanted to do was extract them.

• During the pandemic, from 2019 and 2021, the French marketplace for comedian books nearly doubled in dimension from 48.4 million  gross sales a yr to 87.2 million.
• This was partially as a result of French coverage of a Culture Pass which gave youngsters a whole bunch of euros to spend on cultural merchandise, together with comics.
• Last yr, in 2023, the market contracted however solely by 11%.
• And one in 4 books of any variety bought in France are actually comedian books.
• The best-selling ebook of all final yr was Asterix And The White Iris, launched on the finish of October 2023.
• Only 2% of the French comics market is digital.
• The quantity of titles revealed in a yr has rocketed in latest a long time, round 5,000 a yr now, up from 700 within the Nineties.
• And 53% of French comic-book authors, in line with a 2014 research, earn lower than the minimal wage.
• Rachida Dati, the newly appointed tradition minister, informed Angouleme “My priority is not the comics but, the people who make them. I’m not only going to be the minister for private views, exhibitions and shows – I want to take action.”
• Japanese manga now accounts for greater than half of all BD gross sales within the nation.
• But it’s the conventional French publishers who typically license, translate and promote manga themselves. As if Marvel revealed One Piece within the US, and DC revealed Chainsaw Man. American and UK comics publishers actually missed out on this. Dark Horse and Titan Comics are stepping up.
• France additionally has 3,500 impartial bookstores, as many because the UK and the USA mixed, from an inhabitants of about 15% the scale
• This is supported by a 1981 legislation that forbids discounting practices that transcend 5% of a ebook’s cowl value. The UK used to have such a factor.

So… what classes shoudl all of us study? From the successes and failures?

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