(commentary on the aggregate online sales rankings of manga and manga series for last week)
Note: no actual recipes listed. There’s a link, though.
I wasn’t joking last week when I made the off-hand comment that I should just outsource (part or all) of the consolidated rankings — I mean, a lot of the process is […]

last week’s rankings: link
this week’s commentary: link
Consolidated Online Manga Sales Rankings
for the week ending 25 November 2007
“Statistics are no substitute for judgment.”
Sources:
Amazon, B&N, Chapters (CA), BAMM, Borders, Buy.com, DeepDiscount.com, Powell’s Books, Tower, Virgin
sources checked on Saturday 24 November. (Some sources were checked multiple times between Wednesday and Saturday; see end notes)
Top 100 individual […]

last week’s rankings: link
this week’s commentary: link
Top 25 Manga Series, by online sales
for the week ending 25 November 2007
rank. (last wks. rank) Series Title (score)
1. ( ↔ 1) Naruto (1510.7)
2. ( ↔ 2) Death Note (917.2)
3. ( ↑ 4) Fruits Basket (728.1)
4. ( ↓ 3) Vampire Knight (577.2)
5. ( ↑ 6) Warriors (449.1)
6. ( ↑ […]

(my commentary on this weeks manga and manga series rankings)
I’ll be taking special notice of the time I spend compiling the charts, at least through this week and next, with an eye toward seeing if this is something I can outsource to India. (you only think I’m joking.) Raw data entry seems to take […]

last week’s rankings: link
Consolidated Online Manga Sales Rankings
for the week ending 18 November 2007
“Statistics will prove anything - even the truth.”
Sources:
Amazon, B&N, Chapters (CA), BAMM, Borders, Buy.com, DeepDiscount.com, Powell’s Books, Tower, Virgin
sources checked on Sunday 18 November. (Some sources were checked multiple times between Friday and Sunday; see end notes)
Top 100 individual volumes
rank. (last […]

last week’s rankings: link
Top 25 Manga Series, by online sales
for the week ending 18 November 2007
rank. (last wks. rank) Series Title (score)
1. ( ↔ 1) Naruto (1526.5)
2. ( ↑ 3) Death Note (760.2)
3. ( ↑ 4) Vampire Knight (636.8)
4. ( ↓ 2) Fruits Basket (608.6)
5. ( ↔ 5) Dark Hunger — Feehan (single volume) (469.0)
6. […]

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I was also going to compare my GN sales rankings with the ICv2 numbers (top 10 to top 10) but they haven’t posted their October numbers yet. I suppose I can come back with an update whenever they get around to that…
Since the USA Today numbers have been out for a couple of days, […]

…and the phrase “crappy genre vampire romance schlock,” which should be a shelving category in my bookstore and is worth repeating 3 times in this article.
As the 13th is the Ides of November, this post is technically two days late. There’s a handy mnemonic for remembering if the Ides is on the 13th or 15th […]

Commentary and what passes for analysis will follow this post, maybe before 8am but I’m already crashing so check back this afternoon.
Consolidated Online Sales Rankings
for *all* Graphic Novels
for the Ides of November, 2007
“Statistics means never having to say you’re certain.”
Sources:
Amazon, B&N, BAMM, Buy.com, DeepDiscount.com, Overstock.com, Powell’s, Virgin
Sales from the Borders beta site would have been […]

Oh sure, the raw data is ready (sometimes as early as noon on Sundays) but if you want extended commentary, you have be willing to wait a couple of extra hours for it. (at least until other people care to comment on the sales rankings. By the way, This amounts to an Open Invitation, folks: […]

last week’s rankings: link
Consolidated Online Manga Sales Rankings
for the week ending 11 November 2007
“98% of statistics are made up on the spot”
Sources:
Amazon, B&N, Chapters (CA), BAMM, Borders, Buy.com, DeepDiscount.com, Powell’s Books, Tower, Virgin
sources checked on Sunday 11 November. (Amazon, B&N, and Chapters were checked multiple times between Friday and Sunday; see end notes)
Top 100 individual […]

last week’s rankings: link
Top 25 Manga Series, by online sales
for the week ending 4 November 2007
rank. (last wks. rank) Series Title (score)
1. ( ↔ 1) Naruto (1320.2)
2. ( ↔ 2) Fruits Basket (629.3)
3. ( ↑ 4) Death Note (619.6)
4. ( ↓ 3) Vampire Knight (594.4)
5. ( ↔ 5) Dark Hunger — Feehan (single volume) (494.0)
6. […]

How far down into this week’s list did I have to read before I knew my pick of the week? First item, alphabetically:
Pick of the week

The Azumanga Daioh Omnibus
by Kiyohiko Azuma. Published by ADV Manga, imprint of both hope, and promise –and a past history of crushing disappointment.
Azumanga Daioh is (perhaps due to […]

If you read my last post about the Big Box o’ Naruto, and lamented that you didn’t really need the 27 volumes but were interested in the bonus ‘pilot’ short story that features the first appearance of (and slightly different take on) your favourite boy ninja, then fret no more: It’s in the upcoming […]