Yo Tom , I'm another who is shocked at the news that X-factor is ending. Dude was correct. Month is Month out , we got 2 issues , on time , with the Great Peter David writing and it didn't catch on fire but I do have to ask you because you have stated here before that buying the book in any format helps the book out but P.David stated that X-factor will probably do better in trade but that won't help it stay alive , so who is actually correct sir?

The sales of the existent ALL-NEW X-FACTOR collection(s) were factored into any decision about its profitability. So yes, those sales do count.

But it is just as possible to publish a collected edition at a loss as it is to do so with a monthly comic.

(Not saying that the X-FACTOR collections weren’t profitable—merely that the notion that collected editions are somehow pure money is a fallacy.)

If you by the book in whatever format, it helps. But if not enough people buy the book in whatever format, it goes away. And if a bunch of people would have bought the book in the next TPB colelction, but now won’t get to because there won’t be another TPB collection—I’d expect that’s what Peter is referring to.