Despite appearances, Comicsnob is not my website.
That’s the crux of the matter, and really, the only reason for the change to be announced:
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It may go down as one of the most successful “guest blogger” gigs in the (admittedly short) history of the blogosphere — Comicsnob.com was founded in October of 2006 by my good friend […]

Let’s take a quick, snapshot look at the state of the industry, shall we?
[ooooo… messy…]
…but even with some unanswered questions about who is going to be publishing the manga in a year or two (with all these stupid rumors, and corporate shuffling, and bad news for retail and the economy, and digital and OEL and […]

[additional commentary is coming, but it’s already 1 AM and tomorrow is a workday. damn it.] Edit: hopefully I did a better job of explaining this the second time around.
For those of you surfing in off of a link and encountering these manga rankings for the first time, let me just say […]

Sources
Online Bookstores:
Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Borders, Chapters of Canada, and Amazon’s Manga Category Listing
Other Sales Charts:
Amazon’s Hourly Bestsellers, Buy.com, Deepdiscount.com, Powell’s, Tower, and Virgin
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last week’s rankings
About the Charts
Weekly Analysis and Commentary Posts
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Consolidated Online Sales Rankings
For the Week Ending 15 June 2008
Your Executive Summary and Index:
Manga Top 500
1. ↑1 (2) : Naruto 29 - […]

Sources
Online Bookstores:
Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Borders, Chapters of Canada, and Amazon’s Manga Category Listing
Other Sales Charts:
Amazon’s Hourly Bestsellers, Buy.com, Deepdiscount.com, Powell’s, Tower, and Virgin
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last week’s rankings
About the Charts
Weekly Analysis and Commentary Posts
Correction: I found an error in how the weighted scores for the Top 50 Series were calculated last week. This only affected […]

I couldn’t even check my e-mail today without tripping over the announcement:
Via PW and also via icv2,
and Anime News Network reprinted the original press release:
Tokyopop spilts into two: Tokyopop Inc. for publishing, and Tokyopop Media for “new media,” digital applications, & a to-be-hoped-for-but-still-unrealized comics-to-film business. Both companies will be part of the Tokyopop […]

[*gasp*]
Well, the ‘confession’ is mostly along the lines of ‘perhaps I’ve unfairly misjudged them’ and the rest… likely also isn’t what you’re thinking.
[here’s the pro forma link to this week’s chart, for those of you surfing in from some other site.]
Under the Hood
It’s still an ‘estimate’ this week, as I can’t quite claim certainty (and […]

Sources
Online Bookstores:
Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Borders, Chapters of Canada, and Amazon’s Manga Category Listing
Other Sales Charts:
Amazon’s Hourly Bestsellers, Buy.com, Deepdiscount.com, Powell’s, Tower, and Virgin
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last week’s rankings
About the Charts
Weekly Analysis and Commentary Posts
*Unlike the past month, there will be a current commentary post this week.
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Consolidated Online Sales Rankings
For the Week Ending 1 June 2008
Your Executive […]