This is amended from a Black Tower Comics & Books Face Book post yesterday.
Unfortunately, Face Book does not tell you where those
viewing your page come from. You think as a world-wide social media they might
do that.
However, I do know that Bulgaria ,
Romania , Russia ,India ,
Germany , France provide some views and to that can be
added Canada , United States ...just remembered that Philippines , Singapore
and Taiwan and China
provide views. In other words...the
Black Tower FB page gets international views.
Looking at visits to Comic Bits Online today I know that the
most views (top 10) have come from:
Unknown Region
The UK is in fifth place but generally tends to be in 7-9th
position so that, although the all time views from the UK (207,787-) is impressive the USA has provided
1,307,119 views and China (2nd place) 1,128,615 views,
The total all time views are
I have published posts on comics from most of the countries
listed because I had information or an interest and it was NOT intended to draw
in views from those countries.
Remember Blogger screwed up and lost (somehow) a couple
million views and the actual number of views is around 8 million (because of
business and political as well as other reasons the Peoples Republic of China
and non-Google systems are excluded from the views stats) but I am only going by the official Blogger stats (Google
Plus lost the three million views when it went through its 'upgrade' a couple
years back. Even so there were 1000 plus views per month –again, only
registered if readers were using a Google approved system!
Perhaps concentrating on the non existent UK comics
'industry' is good for nostalgia but not if you want to promote and sell books?
Certainly with a world wide readership it makes sense for publishers, etc., to
use CBO to promote its books and merchandise as there is an already existing core
of readers as well as a large number of casual readers.
That Small Pressers in the UK do not take advantage of CBO for
promoting their books no longer surprises me (ditto the Zine Zone blog which
gets high hits every week but no one sends in review books). But we have a big world of comic related entertainment
from gaming, movies, books, t-shirts and action figures.
Titan Books (though they have been quiet a long time),
Cinebook the 9th Art, Carlton, Random House, Casterman and a number
of other companies have seen the benefits of using CBO. Perhaps others ought to think about that?
Whatever, a lot of re-thinking needs to be done.
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