Comic Book Shops That Sort By Publisher Are Part of the Problem!

[labor_days]

It' tricky outside of your Batman, X-men, Spider-man type books. But I'd tolerate those books being grouped together. To a degree.

[diabhol]

Labor, I know you're sticking to your guns on the whole Non-Publisher sorting, so I had a few questions about your ABC style.

-Would Event books be sorted that way as well? Civil War would be in the C's?
-Would you take a standard sorting, where say "The Amazing SpiderMan" would go under A or T?
-Should there be a chart or perhaps a pamphlet, to tell new readers where they can find the different "Cyclop's books"?
-How often should the racks be "cleaned up"? Because it seems like monthly, if not weekly, new books are coming out and old ones are going away. When you get a new B title, you'd have to shuffle the rest of the books down.

Yep. This is how Secret Headquarters does it.

-Civil War was in C
-Amazing Spider-Man is in A
-No pamphlet. You're assumed to be smart enough to figure out where to find Cyclops and if you can't, they're friendly enough to help and answer questions.
-Racks are cleaned up weekly (Wednesday morning) and stuff is moved around. There are little signs that say "New" and "Last Week" that are movable as well. If there's a space, a noteworthy trade will occasionally go up. Previous weeks' issues of a new book occasionally (but not always) sit behind the current week's issues (which I've found really convenient on occasion) if there's space.

[xyzzy]

Given that comics are arranged by title, even in by pub systems, all one would have to know is the title. Comics sorted A-Z by title is the least complicated.

A quick glance that all the comics on the shelf are A-Z, one could match up the title with it's respective lettering. You do the same for books, only it's by author, A-Z. There is a built in expectation level in such a sorting system.
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Except there isn't. If you go to a book store, you can expect that most stuff will be sorted by author. But travel books, for example, are usually sorted by the region they cover. Books are sorted in a way that makes the most sense to make it easier for their customers. Now I get it that you have a hard time dealing with this, but I just think that most of the rest of the world isn't like that. Everybody understands that all stores have some organizational scheme.