That would depend heavily on how much cheaper that made the floppies. If they weren't much cheaper, then I assume even MORE people would "trade wait" than do now. Can they even afford to keep printing the floppies if too much of the audience goes to strictly trades?
Only a fool would pay $3.99 for a Marvel comic when he could buy a comparable DC comic for $1.99. Marvel would suffer a big hit in sales, and would be forced to copy DC and switch to newsprint too.
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