Geek Syndicate
familiar customers will bring their friends over to our stall and point out books to them that they enjoyed. Several of our customers have helped highlight our work to schools, libraries and comic stores – this support is invaluable and a great encouragement to us. As a middle-sized company, we like to support the work of other middle-sized and small companies and we always offer independent comic stores the same deals that larger chains can get from distributors (our UK distributors, Turnaround, are extremely helpful and accommodating!). At heart, our marketing strategy is to try to be nice people! GS: Digital distribution is radically altering the publishing industry. When will we see Cinebook translations on tablet computers? Aldous: Many of our titles are already available for Apple and Android devices (as well as desktop browsers) through Izneo. As the only Englishlanguage publisher on that platform (they operate primarily in France), it may not be that visible to British and American readers. I think our emphasis remains on print editions, however. What are the greatest challenges you face at the moment, and what excites you most about the future of Cinebook? Jerome: Challenges... Aside from the overall state of the economy in general, I’m not sure. As for the future? There are titles coming up in series I love that are... Golden Age ones (Valerian and Yoko Tsuno, for example). There are new series signed up that I’m excited about. Possibilities for other series, maybe even other publishers, that have me shivering with hope. There are markets that are finally starting to open, countrie