Marvel Moves Book Market Distribution to Hachette
12 avril 2010[ENGLISH] Marvel tells us: Marvel is pleased to announce that, effective September 1, 2010, Marvel books will be sold and distributed into the worldwide book market by the Hachette Book Group. Additionally, Marvel is also pleased to announce an agreement with Diamond Comics Distributor to extend its exclusive Direct Market Service Agreement. “Teaming with Hachette allows us to even more aggressively grow our presence in the book market, exposing new readers to Marvel’s great library of characters and stories. With Hachette’s overwhelming success in the book market, we can’t imagine a better partner as Marvel looks to expand its presence in the book market” said David Gabriel, Marvel Senior Vice President of Sales & Circulation.
Ken Michaels, Hachette COO said « We’re thrilled to be partnering with Marvel. Hachette’s world-class distribution and broad sales reach, combined with Marvel’s outstanding brand and product line, is sure to be a powerful combination.”
Additionally, Marvel will extend its relationship with Diamond, continuing its commitment to comic shops worldwide. Gabriel explained, “Diamond Book Distributors has been very instrumental in the growth of our graphic novel business, nearly tripling our sales in the book market over the last five years, and we thank them for their efforts. The decision to switch book market distributors was a very difficult one but as evidenced by the extension of our Direct Market agreement, our working relationship with Diamond remains very close. We remain extremely appreciative of our Direct Market retailers and continue to grow that vital market.”
About Hachette Book Group:
Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a leading trade publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the second-largest publisher in the world. HBG publishes under the divisions of Little, Brown and Company, Little Brown Books for Young Readers, Grand Central Publishing, FaithWords, Center Street, Orbit, and Hachette Digital.
HBG also provides a wide range of custom distribution, fulfillment and sales services to third party publishers including Harry N. Abrams, Amazing People Club, Chronicle Books, Filipacchi Publishing, Gildan Media, Guinness World Records, Hachette UK, InnovativeKids, Octopus Books USA, Oxmoor House, Peterson’s, Phaidon Press, and Time Inc. Home Entertainment.
About Marvel:
Marvel Entertainment, LLC. is one of the world’s most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of over 5,000 characters featured in a variety of media over seventy years. Marvel utilizes its character franchises in licensing, entertainment (via Marvel Studios and Marvel Animation) and publishing (via Marvel Comics). Marvel’s strategy is to leverage its franchises in a growing array of opportunities around the world, including feature films, consumer products, toys, video games, animated television, direct-to-DVD and online. For more information visit www.marvel.com
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merci 🙂
Ah bon ? Moi en lisant l’article j’ai cru comprendre que les BD Marvel allaient être gérées à l’international par Hachette… Que faut-il comprendre alors ?
Hachette Books supplante Diamond pour ce qui concerne les livres de Marvel US. Diamond garde cependant le « marché direct ». C’est quelque chose qui ne concerne que la VO et son mode de distribution à travers le monde.
Ok… Merci pour la précision.
ça ne veut pas plutôt dire que Marvel compte profiter des succès annoncés des futurs films de super-héros pour reconquérir son public et capter de nouvelles personnes ? Profiter des magasins d’aéroports, de gares, etc. du groupe Hachette…
Ca c’est une espérance en cours depuis au moins les premiers films de Spider-Man et X-Men.
Une espérance ? c’est donc que ce n’est pas le secteur BD qui en a le plus profité ?
La première retombée des films, c’est une rentrée d’argent autonome, à part entière. Quand un film Spider-Man sort, ce sont des millions de dollars qui tombent dans les caisses de Marvel sans avoir à faire le moindre investissement. La retombée majeure du succès des films est donc avant tout l’argent qu’ils apportent directement dans les caisses de l’éditeur, sans le moindre investissement de sa part. J’aurais tendance à dire que le cinéma profite à Marvel mais pas forcément au secteur BD. En tout cas pas directement…