I’m running 5-6 days behind on this post, which is problematic considering I’m compiling a weekly bestseller chart. If I wait too much longer I might as well just give it a rest for a day or two and instead double up, cover two weeks worth of charts with a monster commentary on a ‘regularly […]

Oops. Looks like someone broke the internet. As of 2pm 12/28, archive.org is down. It doesn’t matter how often I link to the PDF, you won’t be able to read it.
I suppose it’s just as well I still do a plain-text version. It’s a dinky little file, 15kb or so. […]

Welcome Back.
I hope everyone enjoyed the involuntary shut-down as most bloggers took a few days off for time with family and loved ones.
Yeah. I wish I knew what that was like — aside from the 36 hours that I wasn’t at the bookstore (6pm on the 24th to 6am on the 26th) I’ve been […]

Corrections:

Last Week, Fruits Basket vol 13 (#94) was misidentified as vol 12.
Also, while Borders lists it as the “Ai Land Chronicles Omnibus,” a mistake I’ve echoed for several weeks (because they’re one of my sources, natch) it seems that based on price and publication date this volume is in fact the Princess Ai Ultimate Edition. […]

[rank. ↑↔↓ (last wks. rank) title + vol# (score)]
Top 10 Manga Series
1. ↔ 0 (1) Naruto (669.3)
2. ↔ 0 (2) Death Note (383.8)
3. ↔ 0 (3) Fruits Basket (285.5)
4. ↑ 1 (5) Bleach (221.8)
5. ↓ 1 (4) Vampire Knight (201.1)
6. ↑ 4 (10) Fullmetal Alchemist (162.6)
7. ↓ 1 (6) Warriors (156.7)
8. ↔ 0 (8) Pokemon […]

Looking at the list this time (and this is only the 3rd month for this exercise) I don’t see any major changes, nothing unexpected, nothing really out of place. –At least for the top 100. You should see the mess I have when we work our way down to, say, 500th place. […]

[previously: part one]
Next, for your gift-buying convenience, I’ll list the books coming out next week. (This is in fact next week’s Watch List, it’s just buried in this “holiday shopping guide”)
And then… drumroll please… I’d also like to present the post-holiday releases for the two weeks or so after Christmas. All […]

The holiday season is upon us like a mudslide (and it takes about the same amount of time to dig your way out of either, to say nothing of the cleanup) so for those of you who haven’t even started your shopping yet, I’d like to present Comicsnob’s Manga Holiday Shopping Guide for 2007. […]

[in case you missed the last entry, this is a discussion of the online manga rankings (pdf) for this past week.]
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I think we all can take it as a given, that I’m nuts.
Completely aside from the requisite delusions and dementia that make me assume I have the skill set required to compile an online bestseller […]

Last Week’s Rankings: top 25 series, top 100 volumes
This Week’s Rankings: are available as a PDF file — click to view/download.
Text is like cash. Everyone likes cash, everyone knows what to do with it, no one questions cash. or plain text.
Not every transaction is handy in cash, though. Just about anything could […]

In the course of checking sources for the weekend’s consolidated online sales rankings, I noted this morning that the Naruto Box Set appears to be sold out on-line. As in, not at Amazon, Buy.com, B&N, BAMM… Publisher Viz has also de-listed the item from their store. There appear to be about ten units available through […]

“Hm. I wonder which one gained the most places this week. Are all the Death Notes on the chart? Is there any of that pizza left over? Just how many naruto-flavoured things is Viz hawking this autumn? Scott Pilgrim! Ha! What else is in here that isn’t manga? […]

last week’s rankings: link
this week’s commentary: link
Consolidated Online Manga Sales Rankings
for the week ending 2 December 2007
Sources:
Amazon, B&N, Chapters (CA), BAMM, Borders, Buy.com, DeepDiscount.com, Powell’s Books, Tower, Virgin
sources checked on Sunday 2 December. (Some sources were checked multiple times between Friday and Sunday; see end notes)
Top 100 individual volumes
rank. (last wks. rank) Title + […]

last week’s rankings: link
this week’s commentary: link
Top 25 Manga Series, by online sales
for the week ending 2 December 2007
rank. (last wks. rank) Series Title (score)
1. ( ↔ 1) Naruto (3097.1)
2. ( ↔ 2) Death Note (1802.1)
3. ( ↔ 3) Fruits Basket (1403.7)
4. ( ↔ 4) Vampire Knight (1117.2)
5. ( ↔ 5) Warriors (890.8)
6. ( ↑ […]