individual issues would be a good idea in a thriving comics market

 Someone suggested that to sell more copies of The Green Skies it might be an idea to split up the books into 32pp issues -make it a series.

I have dealt with this question before -last time it was suggested about Return of the Gods but I will explain again.

Firstly, at the moment Return, Cross Earths and the three volume Green Skies will cost you a bare minimum for each (something I intend to change soon as they make me no money and obviously a higher cost will). There are 360pp in Return which is 11+ issues at 32pp.  Cross Earths is around 140pp so almost 5 issues with a little padding. The Green Skies would come to 12.5 x 32pp comics. So 29-30 issues.

At the minimum print cost available that means such a lengthy series would cost around £232 (U.S. just make that $232). At the moment buying each volume would cost you £62/$62. It means you would be paying £170/$170 more. That defeats my whole purpose of a fair read at a fair price.

We also know that readers very rarely stick with long term comics. So a fair price, good quality printing and 5 books (Return and Cross Earths could be read as self contained stories without reading the following three volumes. 

Also, I would have to edit and get covers for all of the books and then go through the trauma of having to upload the interiors and covers separately at my print on demand company and THEN give the books the lowest cover price o try to get people to buy (which I am no longer doing).  I had thought the fact that the books (all of the ones on the store front) are low print runs might have added a bit of collectability but....

So individual issues would be a good idea in a thriving comics market -but there is no thriving market.