Tag: Diamond

The March sales numbers from Diamond have several headline worthy metrics: DC surpassed Marvel in units - but not dollars - for the first time in a non-relaunch period.

DC drew even with Marvel in units while lagging in dollars in February's sales charts, just released by Diamond, furthuring suspicions that Marvel's periodical sales are slipping.

Diamond released sales figures for January 2017 this morning and units and dollars were way down from December - however that's only to be expected from holiday sales. However, periodicals were up a but...

Just a quick note: Diamond has an advisory up that the slipcased March trilogy edition is still available from them, although it's sold out at Amazon. (March Book Three is still available there.)   As...

The full line-up of titles for Free Comic Book Day 2017 has just been released, and there will be 38 Silver Sponsor titles in addtion to the 12 Gold Sponsor titles previously announced. Free Comic...

And after a day spent curled up playing Hearthstone and eating ice cream....we're back! And ready to rock and roll! § Nice Art: The print edition of the 7th issue of Sophia Foster-Dimino's award winning...

Great scott! Diamond has been leaking word that sales in August were okay, and now we see why: Not only are they proudly announcing 10.26 million UNITS shipped  – the highest number since 1996 –...

Those who think comics need to ditch the direct market right this minute had better not read the latest news about Barnes and Noble. The last big box chain had a dismal quarter, fired...

Well now, this is interesting. IDW has moved its book distribution to Penguin Random House effective April 2017. ICv2 has all the enthusiastic quotes from executives at both companies, including a sad quote from Steve Geppi who owns Diamond Book Distribution, which formerly repped IDW to the book trade. DBD will continues to sell IDW products to the mass market in the UK. But this really makes PRHPS, which also distributes DC, a powerhouse player in the GN field.

Well, Rebirth has done what it was meant to do: set DC atop the sales charts. According to sales statistics released today by Diamond, in July DC led Marvel and all other publisher sin...

Diamond just released their June sales figures with quarter-to-quarter  comparisons as well as the regular month to month. June 2016 was up an insane amount over May, but June, brief as it is,  was...

If you were looking for signs that comics sales are getting out of their funk in 2016, April's Diamond figures didn't help. Black Panther #1 was the top selling comic, as expected, but a...