Here’s Laethiel Mazake’s prescription for the comics industry:
“Regarding niche titles, localizers/publishers need to show that they won’t leave fans hanging. A policy of ‘This didn’t sell enough, so we won’t publish the rest of it (even if that’s only one or two more volumes)’ may cut losses on that one title, but it leads to a lack of trust that similar titles will continue to be published. This naturally leads to fans being leery of purchasing niche titles that may not be continued, lowering the sales numbers on new niche titles enough that they also get dropped, continuing the cycle. Of course, it’s also up to readers to buy good titles so that they’ll keep being published, but that becomes hard to justify if a company has a record of dropping series in the middle.”