This is the commentary on the sales charts. Previously:
Manga Top 500
Top 50 Series
Publishers’ Scorecard
Manga Midlist 500
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Trivia: I spent about 15 hours this week on these damn charts.
Yes, I could re-watch all of Neon Genesis Evangelion (including the movies) in the amount of time I just wasted figuring out that Naruto and Death Note […]

Also:
Manga Top 500
Top 50 Series
Publishers’ Scorecard
Commentary Post
Following on the heels of last week’s Denarutofied 500, I’d like to present a new standard feature for our manga rankings (can anything be a ’standard feature’ when I haven’t even been doing this 9 months yet?)
I’m calling this the “Midlist 500″
Taking the top 5 ranked series out of […]

Also:
Manga Top 500
Top 50 Series
Manga Midlist 500
Commentary Post
A Top 500 is fine, but for some partisans, all they want to know is Who’s Winning?
(I’m solidly in the Seven Seas Strawberry camp. Go Yuri!)
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Consolidated Online Manga Sales Rankings
for the week ending 30 March 2008
Publishers’ Scorecard
From the Manga Top 500:

801 Media: 7
ADV 4
Berkley 1
Broccoli Boysenberry 1
CMX […]

Also:
Manga Top 500
Publishers’ Scorecard
Manga Midlist 500
Commentary Post
Note: for Last “Weeks” Rankings I went all the way back to the Top 25 series posted 30 December. (sorry, it was the last set of complete data I had.)
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Consolidated Online Manga Sales Rankings
for the week ending 30 March 2008
Top 50 Manga Series
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key:
rank. ↕movement (last wks. rank) : […]

last week’s rankings: link
Also:
Top 50 Series
Publishers’ Scorecard
Manga Midlist 500
Commentary Post
The rankings are determined by taking sales charts from various online booksellers and assigning points based on how titles rank. Higher rankings = higher scores.
Sources
Online Bookstores:
Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Borders (beta), Chapters of Canada, and Amazon’s Manga sales by Category
Other Sales Charts:
Amazon Hourly Bestsellers, Buy.com, […]

Six things that might happen to Borders:
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1. Nothing
An Immediate Economic Recovery solves all the problems — Not that a sudden uptick in the economy would suddenly solve Border’s problems but “a rising tide raises all ships”
2. Nothing ver. 2
Even in a bad economy, Borders new merchandising schemes might just work — well enough to […]

Even a quick glance at the Manga Top 500 this week reveals something any one of us could guess: Viz is making an obscene amount of bank off of Naruto and Death Note. The mind boggles.
One of the reasons I began looking so much deeper into sales sites (further down the long tail […]

The rankings are determined by taking sales charts from various online sales sites and assigning points based on how titles rank. Higher rankings = higher scores.
Sources:
Online Bookstores: Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Borders (beta), Chapters of Canada, and Amazon’s Manga sales by Category
Other Sales Charts: Amazon Hourly Bestsellers, Buy.com, Deepdiscount.com, Fye*, Powell’s, Tower, […]

I’m not quite there yet, as this list reflects only one week of sales (and like the old Top 150, I’ll be tracking two) but I have a preliminary ranking and thought I’d share.
More in-depth into on sources and methods will be in the notes following next week’s chart (posting Sunday morning) but let me […]

…And the Manga. Since I was compiling the ‘everything else’ list for the last few months, this week’s academic-and-otaku-friendly books are part and parcel of the previous post. (which is good stuff all around. go read)
What we’re left with is 26 manga titles, which seems light. Hm. Am I missing something?
Pick of the Week

Suppli, vol […]

While a quick peek at the ‘academic’ releases each week have always been a part of my used-to-be-weekly watchlists, usually they would merit at best their own subheading, and often nothing more than a footnote.
Let things pile up for a month or two though and hey, actually there is a lot of this sort of […]