Effective with January 2024 titles, Simon & Schuster will handle North American distribution to the book market for Image Comics. That includes independent bookstores, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Amazon, libraries, and non-comic shop bricks-and-mortar and online retailers where physical books are sold.
Image Comics will continue its relationship with Diamond Book Distributors to serve the U.K. and international book market. Image Comics' "direct market"/comic shop distribution is currently serviced and will continue to be serviced by Lunar Distribution. Image Comics' digital/e-book distribution is currently serviced and will continue to be serviced by IPG.
"For the past 20 years we have been able to establish a foothold for our trade paperbacks and graphic novels in the book market thanks in no small part to the support and efforts of Diamond Book Distributors," said Eric Stephenson, publisher of Image Comics. "Over time, our needs and backlist of titles have grown and our increasing footprint in the marketplace has us excited to take this next step with Simon & Schuster to build a more robust infrastructure for our titles there."