Forum - View topicNEWS: Penguin Random House to Stop Offering Books Through Diamond Comics
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MangaNeko
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Well this is unsettling news. Diamond has continued to release their monthly PREVIEWS catalog all through this crisis. In the last 2 months there has been less pages in the catalog, about 80 pages less for May 2025 catalog. Three of my local shops already use Penguin RH, because quality at Diamond has dropped this last year. I worry alot about the graphic novel companies. PREVIEWS use to have a book section years ago, which they merged with their comics section. Then the graphic novel boom happened and each major book publisher has 1 to 2 graphic novel labels. Easily 40-100 original graphic novels are published from small press to large book publishers each month..
It will be terrible to not see Kodansha listed in the manga section of PREVIEWS. I do wonder if they know they will need to invest in a physical monthly catalog, so customers will know what to tell their shop to order, especially to advertise new titles. |
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Twage
Posts: 381 Location: North Bergen, NJ |
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There already is a monthly catalog from PRH for comic shops, actually: https://prhcomics.com/catalog/category/prh-panels-catalogs/
It's got floppy comics and graphic novels. |
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Alan45
 Village Elder Posts: 10383 Location: Virginia |
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@Twage
That is fine for Penguin Random house titles. But at some point Previews will lose so many publishers that it will no longer be viable. This will leave a bunch of manga publishers with no central place to advertise. This includes such publishers as Yen Press and Viz as well a several smaller publishers. For close to thirty years every month you could go to one catalog and find out what comics, including what manga would be coming out in two to three months. One stop shopping at its finest. Now it looks like it will be a couple of catalogs and multiple web sites just to keep up with the possibility of some titles sliding under the radar. This is not an improvement. Small publishers like One Peace and Denpa that put out one or two titles a month could be listed right beside the big boys. Now they may come and go without much of the market being aware of their offerings. |
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