DCML digest, Vol 1 #818 - 6 msgs

Sue and Gary Leach bangfish at cableone.net
Tue Jan 29 19:35:03 CET 2002


"Horizon" wrote:

> [Disney states] that "we are now the world's largest publisher
> of children's books and magazines, putting out publications that are read by
> 100 million people in 55 languages in 74 countries." Given the squishiness of
> corporate statements, this could mean several different things, but there it
> is.

Under the proper definition of publisher, this would not include comic
books. In that arena, at best, they might have justification to claim they
are the world's largest publishing licensor. Big difference, especially in
terms of corporate effort and risk.

Gary




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