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bigger discount." One of the "last loyal customers" when New Media began having fiscal difficulties, Geppi made a deal: "he owner was going into retail," so Geppi agreed to provide New Media/Irjax with "free books for a period of time in return for his account list," buying parts of the company, and founding
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Diamond lost customers with this approach, however, "and eventually backed down." Geppi recalls compromising, and accepting "that as a distributor, I owed the retailers the product they wanted." In fact, in an attempt to prove
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was taken over by Gemstone in 1998, Gemstone took over publication, and the twenty-eighth edition to the present have been (co-)published by Geppi's Gemstone publications. The
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2173:"Diamond Distributors Rejects
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1798:Hancock, Jay (July 27, 1996).
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1557:#124 (August 1988), pp. 9–10.
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2280:#174 (February 1995), p. 29.
2233:#225 (July 2000), pp. 12–17.
2092:#166 (February 1994), p. 39.
2062:#122 (June 1988), pp. 20–21.
2058:"A-V, Diamond Clash Again,"
2020:#116 (July 1987), pp. 18–20.
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2075:#122 (June 1988), pp. 20.
1763:#185 (March 1996), p. 27.
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1689:(1998). "Capital City".
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2071:"Diamond Loosens Up,"
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