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 […]

So after I finally post my year in review post on Thursday night, I wake up on Friday morning to find I’ve been scooped by none other than the New York Times
Publishers sold 3.13 billion books last year, compared with 3.1 billion in 2006, an increase of just 0.9 percent, according to Book Industry Trends […]

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 […]

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 […]

Bullet Points:

Japanese manga sales slip another 2.3% in 2007, but
the medium is gaining currency as a tool of Soft Power diplomacy
…and increased academic and scholarly attention.

Numbers first–
We’ll begin with My Usual Complaint: sources are hard to come by. It’s not that market research isn’t being done; oh no, it’s that if you want it you’ll […]

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 […]