Dark Horse Graphic Novels Available on NOOK by Barnes & Noble!
DARK HORSE GRAPHIC
NOVELS NOW AVAILABLE ON NOOK® BY BARNES & NOBLE
MARCH 5, MILWAUKIE, OR—Just under a year after the launch of Dark
Horse’s digital initiative, it is announced today that the company has
expanded the number of platforms on which comics fans can access their favorite
Dark Horse titles! After an incredibly successful first year of Dark Horse’s
proprietary iOS app and digital storefront, Dark Horse is proud to partner with Barnes
& Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media,
and educational products, to make a library of titles available on Barnes &
Noble’s award-winning NOOK Tablet and NOOK Color™.
Dark Horse digital graphic novels are now available for
purchase in the NOOK Comics™ store, featuring over 100 of the company’s top
titles, like Mass Effect, Hellboy,Star Wars, Buffy the Vampire
Slayer, Serenity, Sin City, and more!
“Making our content available on new platforms outside of
the Apple iOS is an incredibly exciting proposition,” said Matt Parkinson, Dark
Horse’s senior director of Marketing. “As we move into new areas and new
devices, we look forward to the opportunity to find new readers. I can’t think
of a better partner than Barnes & Noble, the leading retailer of digital
content and media and the folks behind the number-one chain of bookstores in
the country.”
“Barnes & Noble is committed to offering customers a
broad array of digital comics and graphic novels. We’re excited to bring NOOK
customers Dark Horse’s fan favorite digital collection of graphic novels,” said
Theresa Horner, vice president of digital content for Barnes & Noble. “The
high resolution of our VividView color touchscreen makes the action virtually
jump off the page, and takes these graphic novels to a whole new level of
entertainment.”
Starting today, the world’s Dark Horse graphic novels arrive
on NOOK! Experience NOOK at any Barnes & Noble bookstore or at Nook.com. Look for more and
more titles to be added every month!
To find a comic shop near you, call 1-888-comicbook or visit ComicShopLocator.com.
About Dark Horse Comics
Since 1986, Dark Horse Comics has proven to be a solid
example of how integrity and innovation can help broaden a unique storytelling
medium and establish a small, homegrown company as an industry giant. The
company is known for the progressive and creator-friendly atmosphere it
provides for writers and artists. In addition to publishing comics from
top talent like Frank Miller, Mike Mignola, Neil Gaiman, Gerard Way, Will
Eisner, and best-selling prose author Janet Evanovich, Dark Horse has developed
such successful characters as the Mask, Timecop, and the Occultist. Additionally,
its highly successful line of comics and products based on popular properties
includes Star Wars, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Buffy the
Vampire Slayer, Aliens, Conan the Barbarian, Mass Effect, Serenity, and
Domo. Today, Dark Horse Comics is the largest independent comic-book
publisher in the United States and is recognized as both an innovator in
the cause of creator rights and the comics industry’s leading publisher of
licensed material.
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