This is interesting – a new blog has surfaced that’s talking about saving the DFC with a subscriber buyout. Could it work?
From the Save The DFC blog:
Random House are looking to sell the title, and whilst the idea of a single wealthy benefactor coming to the rescue sounds great, it also sounds improbable in the current climate…. although with interest rates close to zero and the stock market tanking, you never know…
In any case, it seems unlikely that Random House is actively seeking a buyer.
A great alternative might be to galvanise the subscriber base of the DFC to get as many people as possible to know about it and, if they are interested, get them to pledge a small sum towards an eventual ‘subscriber buy-out’.
More on this as it develops no doubt.
March 21st, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Only if the subscribers think they can distribute, compile and print it, deal with writers and artists and all the rest. Personally I think it’s wishful thinking. Also what are you buying? The mag essentially has no value or Random House would be continuing with it. If they want to sell it will it be for a peppercorn £1? Does that mean all the rights from the established strips come with it? Personally I doubt it – sure they hope to expolit some of the strips thru their children’s division. If that’s the case start a similar comic with the same creators and a new name and you have no cost to RH and lost little (except the subscriber bases name which i’d bet you can probably pull together most of reasonably cheaply online).
A dream only I think.