WE ARE THE POP-CULTURE EXPERTS
Founded in 2002, we are masters of our craft with over 20 years of experience in distributing pop culture-related books, comics, games, and toys. We are your focused partner in distribution. While other distributions houses spread their efforts across their own publishing lines, DBD is dedicated to providing you with the best in distribution services for your pop-culture products.
Our dedicated team of experts have been in the pop culture business collectively for over 130 years. With this experience, you’ll be working with our team one-on-one with regular publisher calls, direct communication with Sales Managers, and life-cycle marketing planned provided for your titles.
We pride ourselves on ensuring each publisher has an excellent book market experience.
With consistent and collaborative communication, digital webinars aimed at enhancing publisher knowledge, and real-time inventory and rate of sale analytics, we provide a service you can trust.
WE PROVIDE STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY
With over 1.1 million square feet of warehouse space, our facilities in Olive Branch MS, Plattsburgh NY, Baltimore MD, Visalia CA, and Manchester England distribute over 110 million units and 8,000 new SKUs annually.
We have a vendor services site that allows publishers to track real-time inventory and rate of sale. During our regular call with publishers, we breakdown the numbers to look at point-of-sale reporting, sales trends, and marketing ROI to determine the best way to position your titles in the market.
WE ARE TRUE PARTNERS
Along with our dedication to our partnerships with publishers, we work closely with retailers in the United States and internationally, making us the largest international distributor of English-language graphic novels and manga.
We are a member of the American Booksellers Association and the American Library Association to ensure we are always at the forefront of the independent bookstore and library market.
Our dedicated Sales Managers have devoted relationships with their respective major retailer accounts. We work with all major retailers and wholesalers including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Target, Walmart, Costco, Indigo, Books-A-Million, Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Bookazine, Follett, Brodart, and more.
WE NEVER STOP TALKING ABOUT YOUR BOOKS
We know our publishers’ products are amazing, and we make sure everyone else does too!
We have a team of marketers ready to curate, advise, and facilitate extensive marketing programs through the life-cycle of your product. While we focus on B2B relations, we work with several consumer-facing outlets, reviewers, and news sites to ensure your product is in front of the retailers shelving it and the consumers interested in buying it.
Our extensive and active email marketing list targets bookstores, librarians, and educators, allowing us to be sure all your major products are in the spotlight.
These marketing efforts are followed up with marketing analytics on all programs implemented. We work together to understand the trends and establish proven tactics from book announcement to sell through.
We also publish a library and educator magazine dedicated to promotion and education of graphic novels and manga within the library market. Diamond BookShelf Magazine has over 10K dedicated readers and is distributed online as well as at key trade shows.
We are present at all major domestic and international trade shows.
WE ARE TRUSTED BY THE BEST
Over 40 pop-culture publishers trust us with their business because we deliver.
From major pop-culture titans including The Walking Dead, Saga, The Boys, and Pathfinder to elegant prose continuations and adaptations including Brandon Sanderson’s White Sand, Jim Butcher, Shakespeare, and more, we are home to the best because we are the best.
We proudly distribute pop-culture products internationally from Image Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, Udon Entertainment, VIZ Media, Yen Press, and more.