Under the agreement, Penguin Random House will distribute Marvel comic books, graphic novels, and other pubications to the direct market.
Penguin Random House is known for its state-of-the-art multi-ranging services that enable independent booksellers to increase efficiency and profitability.
Hachette, another distributor for Marvel, will continue to supply Marvel’s graphic novels and collections to other kinds of bookstores outside the comic direct market network.
(The direct market is mostly composed of comic book stores that receive their inventories from certain distributors, separate from most other kinds of bookstores or mass-market retailers.)