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Valiant Comics state that the $ 4.99 covert price comedian is over because of Canadian tariff , hit at the same time as Diamond failure .
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It was only a few days ago that Bleeding Cool reported on the shock of theDiamond Comic Distributors ' decision to call in Chapter 11 bankruptcyonValiant Comics ' publishing plans , withMatias Timarchi , Director of Valiant ’s publisher Alien Books telling Bleeding Cool , " We had already adjudicate to publish fewer Good Book during November , December , and January because we were working on relaunching the Valiant line with the Valiant Beyond initiative , which was schedule for March of this class . We also have new licence that we have n’t announced yet , and we were plan to do around March / April . While the Distributor owe us money , aswe have n’t received payments since December , I believe we ’ll be able to reorganise and move frontwards . "
But tomorrow , the US duty on Canada , where most individual comics are printed , and China , where many big collected strip are print , are to be enacted . And Matias Timarchi is have to make even more change for the future of Valiant . He tell Bleeding Cool , " we ’re going to have to rethink our entire production process — compare prices and assess the situation . Fortunately , the Kickstarter campaign we ’re running now is already secured since the books are already printed and stored on U.S. ground . We ’ll need to cautiously retrospect the monetary value of printing in Canada . perchance the print companies there might offer some form of incentive to retain their U.S. client ? And considering the costs in China , even with that 10 % duty , it might still be more cost - effective to print books with many pages or hardcover editions there . In any cause , we ’ll have to reassess , as I believe thatcontinuing to sell the floppies at $ 4.99 wo n’t be sustainable in the farsighted run , and we should probablyincrease the monetary value by at least $ 1 … freehanded company with bigger print runs may be able to absorb the price increment , I guess … I have sex reader understand the uttermost difficultness that most of the minor publisher are immersed in now , and I hope they will continue to support main labor , as we need them now more than ever . "
We have recently see Marvel and DC join the likes of Valiant , Boom and IDW with $ 4.99 as the standard price for the received floppy comic book . Looks like Valiant would have to skip to $ 5.99 because of the tariff . Who else will link them ?
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