Anonymous asked: The practice of releasing new number one after new number one simply is not creating new readers, it's not growing the market, it's admitting that the books in question aren't successful enough to continue without being constantly relaunched, and the long-term result is that it diminishes enthusiasm amongst readers and damages the medium.
I don’t agree with your premise–but assuming that I did, what you’re advocating here is not doing the thing that keeps the books selling, in essence killing the medium and the industry far, far more quickly. It’s not like readers are suddenly going to start flocking to the stores because there are a whole bunch of #159s on the stands or something.
It’s clear that this person has never looked at sales figures before. The higher the numbers go the lower the sales are. Unless you are one of the rare keystone franchise titles. Amazing Spider-Man and Batman will always do well because they’ve tapped into the mainstream but any of the side titles or lesser known characters always see a drop off in sales.
