…have been posted on RocketBomber.com

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 […]

[*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 […]

All of 2007 –That’s a large mandate; I tried to take a look at retail, publishing, and some specific trends relating to graphic novels — at least as much as I can manage, given my resources.
Bullet points
Economy
[source: Census Bureau]
* Retail Sales were up 3.2% in 2007 …but inflation was up 4.1%. Excluding energy and […]

Estimated Online Sales Rankings For the Week Ending 25 May 2008
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Sources
Online Bookstores:
Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Borders (beta), and Chapters of Canada
Other Sales Charts:
Amazon [their manga category, as their manga Hourly Bestsellers are on hiatus — at least until they fix their site: here’s a link], Buy.com, Deepdiscount.com, Powell’s, Tower, and Virgin
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last week’s rankings
About the […]

Sources
Online Bookstores:
Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Borders (beta) [offline this past week], Chapters of Canada, and Amazon’s Manga sales by Category
Other Sales Charts:
Amazon Hourly Bestsellers [also offline since 13 May, as false search results for downloadable videos currently spam the ‘manga’ list], Buy.com, Deepdiscount.com, Fye, Powell’s, Tower, and Virgin
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last week’s rankings
About the Charts
Weekly Analysis and […]

It’s rare that I get a link from Heidi MacDonald, so rare in fact that this is only the second (hm… third?) time that it’s happened. I felt like clarifying my drunken, rambling post of the 9th for the readership on The Beat, and of course since I know no one bothers to read […]

To begin with, some off topic updates:
- Still working on the ‘2007 year in review’ bit. Check back tomorrow/Wednesday for the second ‘half’ (much more than half actually, this post is a beast.)
- at the moment (Mon. 12 May 20:25) f.y.e. by way of www.fye.com is telling me that “all book product is currently […]

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, 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 11 May 2008
Your Executive Summary and Index:
Manga Top 500
1. ↔0 (1) : Death […]

Now I’m well past what may be considered my ‘prime manga reading years’ (given that most manga readers can’t buy beer yet …legally) and perhaps the wrong gender, but even from my point of view — not 180° opposite the intended audience but probably, say, 167° — there is a clear winner this week for
The […]

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, 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 4 May 2008
Your Executive Summary and Index:
Manga Top 500
1. ↔0 (1) : Death […]