Sad news for anyone who buys their graphic fiction at Borders Book Stores.
Diamond Distributors, the company that supplies comic books, graphic novels, manga, and the like to most shops across the country, has elected not to ship any new (or back catalog) merchandise to the chain of book stores due to late payments.
The decline in print media demand has caused most brick and mortar book retailers to see their sales slump, but Borders has been hit especially hard due to an absence of a digital business strategy.
The elimination of a graphic fiction section isn’t going to help matters much either.
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