Diamond Distributors is filling the void in the comic book market with the advent of Pullbox. It allows customers place digital orders with their local comic shop and then visit the physical location to pick them up. Pullbox handles monthly comic subscriptions, preorders for upcoming titles and products, and special orders all from Diamond’s consumer pop-culture website, … [Read more...] about Diamond Distributors Launch New Digital Comic Book System
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Diamond Comics Abandons Digital Distribution
Diamond Comics has been maintaining a digital distribution system in partnership with iVerse since 2012. This gave comic stores a competitive advantage of being able to monetize their customers going digital. Sadly, Diamond had too many factors going against it and will be suspending the service at the end of February. The essence of the Diamond Digital system was to allow … [Read more...] about Diamond Comics Abandons Digital Distribution
November Comics Sales: The Big Two Slip a Bit
Diamond Comics Distributors is the exclusive distributor of print comics to specialty comics shops, so their monthly numbers give a pretty good picture of the print comics market. That market is dominated by Marvel and DC, but that dominance slipped a bit this month as both publishers had less than a 30% market share (in terms of dollars). This isn't the first time that has … [Read more...] about November Comics Sales: The Big Two Slip a Bit
Diamond Offers Advice to Comic Shop Owners to Montetize Digital Content
Diamond Digital is a new project launched by Diamond and iVerse that will allow shop owners to sell downloads of digital comics. The Diamond Digital service launched back in July and gave stores the ability to let consumers read content on retailer websites and download it with a “Digital Comics Reader” app for iOS and Android devices. Comic Shop owners who opt into this new … [Read more...] about Diamond Offers Advice to Comic Shop Owners to Montetize Digital Content