Publisher Tools
Tools for publishers to reach more customers.
Are you a publisher? Would you like to get in front of more than 50,000 active subscribers who update their lists on a regular basis? Want to work in partnership with marketing people who actually know what they're doing? Want to be treated like a partner and not a burden? Read on, and see how our heroes can help you.
Help stores showcase your products
Smarter Tools to Help Promote Your Products
You want to get your products in front of fans, comic shops want to sell more comics, we see this as a match made in heaven.
Together with Manage Comics, we can help you reach more customers, those customers can actively add your items to their subscription lists, turning marketing into actionable subscriptions and pre-orders that will help you sell more copies.
We understand how important marketing is to you, and we that you have to provide metrics to your stakeholders. That’s why we believe it’s important that Manage Comics is able to provide you with measurable statistics that will show how much we helped you move the dial.
Showcase the most important products that you want people to know about.
Add PDF Previews, Video Trailers, or other media to showcase how awesome this new release is.
Get in front of more than 50,000 (and growing) active subscribers!
Manage Comics is on a steady path to growth, and continues adding thousands of end-customers every month as more shops come on board.
Manage Comics’ “Customers First” philosophy means that engaged comic fans will actually see your material.
Publisher Tools in Development:
We are working on a variety of tools that will make listings even MORE valuable to publishers, but we want to hear from you, what is important to you?
Publisher Highlights
Focus attention on the items you are spotlighting every month so that your new launches stand out from the crowd!
Preview Pages
Share previews of your items right on their series page, in context with the issue they’re meant to preview!
Ordering Trends
See ordering trends for your titles and get an aggregate look at how items are trending month over month. You’ll know when to ramp up marketing efforts when those marketing dollars can be put to best use!
Email snippets
Provide email snippets that stores can choose to include in their monthly solicitation emails or their weekly Last Call emails!
Marketing Materials
Make information available for stores to use in their newsletters, blogs, and online presences, and know how those tools are performing with powerful reports.
Data Improvements
The team at Manage Comics believes better data will create a better comics industry. We believe in it so much that we dedicated hundreds of hours to co-writing the Comics Industry COMET Standard!
Dedicated monthly meeting
Our dedicated partners team will schedule a monthly meeting with YOU to make sure that we’ve got the details of what you want to offer, and we’ll jump in and give a hand with publishing everything to the Manage Comics platform!
Partners who work with you
Manage Comics believes “A rising tide lifts all ships”, and we’re working to make the industry better. We’ll work with you to create publisher tools that work for the industry.
Easy to use tools
Manage Comics believes simplicity is an art form, and we make simple tools that help stores make money. We work with our partners to make our tools better!
Why We're Different: We're Partners, Not a Dumb Pipe
We come at every problem as a marketing problem, how can we get items into the hands of the people who most want them? It doesn't matter if your product is seen by a million people it matters that the right people are seeing your product at the right time.
We'll work with you to find those people, and get your products into their hands. That's why we are passionate about our regular check-ins with our partners, and why our partners tell us it's the most valuable hour they spend every month.
We're not here to waste your time, or our own. We're here to identify problems and provide solutions.
Get your products in the Manage Comics Previews Spotlights!
Every month we’ll spotlight a handful of publisher’s products, showcasing them to more than 200 of the best comic shops worldwide. Those shops have over 15,000 customers with active subscriptions!
Showcase your highlighted items every month on your publisher page.
The Publisher Page is a place where you can highlight your most important releases every month, treat them differently, and have them show up in a special highlighted area to get buzz behind the items you’re looking to put the most promotional muscle behind.
Get your products in the Manage Comics Previews Spotlights!
Every month we’ll spotlight a handful of publisher’s products, showcasing them to more than 200 of the best comic shops worldwide. Those shops have over 15,000 customers with active subscriptions!
The Comet Standard: The Data Standard for the Comics Industry
Manage Comics complies with the COMET Standard, a standard for data that we helped create in association with nearly 100 comics industry professionals.
We strongly urge any publishers who are looking to create comics metadata to use the COMET Standard data files.
Manage Comics requires "COMET Required Data" as a minimum level of data. Find the All COMET Data Fields and COMET Required Data" files online.
