Bizarro world! Print comics boom as digital sales rise | Comic-con - CNET Blogs: The problem, he says, is the Direct Market system that relies on Diamond Comics Distributors, a company that has a virtual monopoly in North America for distributing comics from publishers to your local comic book shop. "There are so many grenades bouncing around on deck that if we lose even 5 percent of the stores, it could force Diamond under."
He also criticized Comixology for re-creating the Diamond system with digital comics. "Comixology is just another Diamond," he said. "From my perspective, we're in a closed ecosystem. We have to stop being a typewriter factory."