Cold Cut Comics Distribution

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Why You Should Use Cold Cut

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Cold Cut's Weekly Update

(and archive of past Weekly Updates)

(07-18-13)

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Publishers Carried By Cold Cut

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Cold Cut Distribution is the industry's leading reorder distributor for quality independent comics. We offer "instant reorders" on thousands of titles from more than 200 different independent publishers, all at competitive reorder discounts that often match or beat the prices available from the big distributors.

Why Use Cold Cut?

1. Selection.
   Nobody else in the industry has the variety of independent comics in stock like Cold Cut. We have runs of independent comics, from recent issues of Love and Rockets to early issues of Strangers in Paradise, in stock in depth. Check out our variety:
   • Steady Sellers
     Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Simpsons Comics, Knights of the Dinner Table, Milk & Cheese, Eightball, Optic Nerve, Ninja High School, Tintin, Asterix, Calvin and Hobbes, Naruto, Girl Genius and more!
   • Perennial Stock
     Ranma 1/2, Cartoon History Of The Universe, Battle Angel Alita, Simpsons, Strangers in Paradise, Fushigi Yugi, Maus, Acme Novelty Library, Neil Gaiman novels, Persepolis, Usagi Yojimbo, Jimmy Corrigan, Dragonball Z, Luis Royo books and lots more!
   • Current hits and surprise sellers
     Action Philosophers, Castle Waiting, Finder, A-G Super Erotic Anthology, Shaolin Cowboy, Boneyard, Gargoyles, Dead at 17, and more!
   • Manga
     Rurouni Kenshin, Inu Yasha, Onegai Teacher, One Piece, Battle Angel Alita, Kizuna Bonds of Love, Gold Digger, xxxHolic, Tezuka's Buddha, Negima, Nana, Ultra Maniac, more!
   • Critically Acclaimed
     Lost Girls, Palestine, Ghost World, A Scanner Darkly, Lewis Trondheim books, Summer Blonde, Walt and Skeezix, Blankets, Goodbye Chunky Rice, American Splendor, and more!

2. Service.
   Our customer service is our trademark. When you call Cold Cut, you get a friendly salesperson who knows their stuff. We have information at our fingertips that other distributors only dream about. Want to know which "Battle Angel" trade paperback collects the issues from "Part 3"? Want to know if there will be another issue of Stray Bullets? Curious about the order of the Tintin books?

   We really know our stuff: we know what's in stock, what's out of stock, what's out of print, and what's just being reprinted. We know what's in first print, we know crossover books, we know artist credits.

   Ask us what size bags are best for those odd-sized books (we have 19 different size bags in stock). Ask us what books Jeffrey Brown or Lewis Trondheim has done. Ask us how many issues of Zap Comics were published. (Just don't ask us when the next issue of Milk and Cheese is coming out!)

   We can tell you when your order will go out, we can tell you what the total will be, we can tell you when to expect it to arrive, and exactly what's in it.

   Ask any retailer who's used us: our service is first-class all the way. You and your business are our top priority.

3. Fill Rates.
   Our fill rates are second to none. Usually around 90%, sometimes even at 100%, when you order from Cold Cut you order with confidence. We do careful inventory tracking to try to keep our warehouse inventory in stock at all times, so you can be assured of getting it when you order from us.

4. Pricing.
   We don't mark up "hot" books. Our job is not to gouge you, making gobs of profit on suddenly-hot comics to make up for large quantities of unsold "cold" books. We keep books at cover price so you can keep selling them. Regardless of how "hot" a book is, we've got it at a standard discount off of cover price.

   And our discounts are the best in the industry. No "additional reorder charge" applies -- every Cold Cut order is a reorder! With a top discount level of 50% and a 90% rebate on shipping (on larger-sized orders), you can often get a better deal from Cold Cut than from Ingram, Baker and Taylor, Diamond or even the publishers themselves!

We also strive to promote the small-press books that deserve better sales - we provide in-depth reviews to a dedicated retailer base, feature special promotions, and can refer retailers and readers alike to books they may like, that may sell well, or that are sleeper hits.

The Cold Cut Online Catalog.

As a supplement to our Online Catalog, we also have a Weekly Cold Cut Update! It features all the new items we've received in our warehouse over the previous week, as well as other inventory and stocking news. We e-mail the update every Monday. You can sign up for our Weekly Update here.

Or, you can find the latest Cold Cut Weekly Update at our Livejournal Community - No subscription required!

Contact Information

Or, you can add your email address to our Weekly Update! Once a week, you will receive an email in your in-box, detailing all of the items that are new-in-stock at Cold Cut, as well as a list or recently-restocked items, clearance sale books, and more. You can sign up for our Weekly Update here.

Or, send us physical mail or give us a call or fax: we'll be happy to answer any questions!

  Cold Cut Distribution
  220 N. Main St.
  Salinas  CA  93901

  phone: 831-751-7300 or TOLL FREE at 1-866-4-COLD-CUT
  fax:   831-751-1513
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