I was suspicious on Monday when Diamond Comic Distributors' weekly shipping list had Thursday the 29th's date instead of Wednesday the 28th's. Of course, I had it archived where I looked for the shipping list before, which is a good thing, because you'd have a hard time finding it on their website now since they changed the label from "shipping list" to "new releases". They've been giving advance warning they were going to do that and it was still hard to find. Then I got an e-mail from my local comic shop last night confirming the comics weren't coming until tomorrow. When I relayed my suspicions to him, his response was that Diamond was getting lazy in their old age and with no competition. Ironically, the reorders he put in on Monday that included some of this week's releases came in today. Also, the Christmas and New Year's weeks shipments are now coming on Friday.
Yeah, it's the downloading that's driving out the paying customers.