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A letter send by Diamond Comic Distributors to retailers and publishing company today lay out plan for Diamond to render to statistical distribution .
The following letter was sent by Diamond Comic Distributors to retailers and publishing company today . It repose out plans for Diamond Comics to regress todistribution of raw comic books to risible book stores , where shop are capable to take in new stock . Bleeding Cool antecedently reported that Diamond were allowingdeliveries to retailers ' home addressesif their business name and address are close up . antecedently Bleeding Cool trump the news of May 17th as a datethat Diamond Comics was planning to restart distribution again . The following alphabetic character confirms this , put forward mid - to - late May as the current intended date . But this will take some ramping up first , and everything presently planned for publication will postulate a reshuffling . The letter reads as follows :
Diamond Comics: The Other Side of COVID-19
Although we are not yet on the other side , we are pass over COVID-19 developments day by day and starting to see signboard of the spread slowing in sure areas . Like you , we are think about and project for when and how we will restart the merchant marine of Modern weekly product . We have been closely watching the news , listening to our retailer and publisher partner and considering the many points of purview as we decide , as an industriousness , how to go .
With health and safety of employee , retailers and customers a top precedence , we need to be very deliberate about how we restart and scale cognitive operation . We must find that delicate balance between finagle wellness and rubber concerns , meeting the pent - up demand for mathematical product and work with retailer whose post take issue , and whose need for product may have changed .
While there are many measure and conversation that need to take place between today and resume statistical distribution of new weekly product , we are presently target mid- to late - May with the hope that , as an industriousness , we can all mould toward that timeframe . Of of course , as we have all seen , target date sometimes involve to be adjusted in this ever - shift new - normal . But we can not hold off for unshakable dates . We have started the planning process and are have these important conversations with publishers and retail merchant so that once we have more limpidity , we are in a military position to restart and scale operations over clock time .
Our purport is to restart the hebdomadary FOC process once we have worked with publishers on a Modern agenda for product releases . Product that was in the first place schedule for release on April 1st and 8th will be parcel out over a prospicient period of time , allowing publishers to work with pressman to pitch new Cartesian product without further break . Retailers will be able to adjust lodge quantities for those products , making sure that they are receive quantity that make sense for the current situation in their stores .
While we look onward to the resumption of hebdomadary Modern product , we know that many retailers proceed to take advantage of restocks of backlist production via Diamond ’s Retailer Services Website . We encourage retailers to guarantee their Comic Shop Locator Service itemization are up - to - date with Robert William Service offered , such as livery or curbside serve , and that memory board hours are accurate . This will help direct customers to entrepot that can continue to match their need through this meter .
Please also continue to confer our Coronavirus Resources page for an ongoing list of resource available to retailers . Additionally , retailerservices.diamondcomics.com / coronavirusis a unmarried reservoir for other Coronavirus - related information from Diamond and our publishers .
Thank you for your intellect and keep as we all plan for our hereafter . We are attached to commune with you during this process and look forwards to our continue partnership .
Bleeding Cool will keep to report on thechanges and effect of the current planetary post on the laughable book industry , at this link .
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