QUOTE(evoHahn @ Jul 18 2011, 04:30 PM)
He meant less people frequenting to LCS. In regards to price, pre-1999 we can get comics for less than RM10 back then (USD1 ~ RM2.50). When the currency speculators attack this region, the government decided to peg the ringgit - USD 1 to RM3.80. When this happened, the comics price doubled - and as a student back then, i had to give up the hobby. You really cant compare UK pounds to US Dollar / UK pounds to RM since the pounds has always have a higher value than the US Dollar.
and because of this, the number of comics shop dwindled in KL especially.
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Okay got it. I have sympathies but I haven't ever shopped at an LCS in Malaysia, I bought trades instead. I do really hope they survive but in the end I'm more interested in reading than collecting. I don't want to download illegally as that would harm the comic being made but if I pay for them I want the best price I can. So sorry to Eric but I was lost a long time back.
I did hear that DC are launching a retailer programme that would mean if your LCS sets up a website with a link to Comixology's DC Store they will get 30% of the profit, if that applies to Malaysian retailers then I'd love to do that and support them for the first time. You may want to ask your LCS owner to look into it.
On comparing pounds and dollars and RM, yes you can. I used a currency converter so the comparisons are accurate.
The value of a currency doesn't relate to how wealthy people are, it adjusts to that by paying you less or more of that currency. The average UK salary is £23k pa, the US one is $38k. If you run it through XE.com you'll see that value is almost exactly the same. So a $2.99 comic is worth £1.86 but the real cost is the same. In real value a US$3 comic here selling at RM12 costs $4, which is nobody's fault, the demand isn't big enough for direct dist. but it's very expensive.
I often hear people say "oh UK earns 5 times and US earns 3 times" but it doesn't work like that and I don't know why it's become common. In fact in Malaysia the average annual salary is around RM48k pa (4k a month) which is just under half the US and US figure, not one fifth or one third.
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