…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 […]

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 […]

So no online sales rankings yet. Yep. Sorry; working on it.
What’s up?
Have I complained recently about Amazon? No?
First, let me just point out that Amazon uses a flexible system of keywords derived from publisher-provided info, along with previous customer search criteria (apparently; though this is just a guess on my part) instead […]

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 […]

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 […]

In what I hope will become a longstanding tradition, once again I get to blatantly steal from helpfully re-print a selection from the readers’ comments on last week’s commentary:
Comment from Marfisa
: April 26, 2008, 12:18 pm
“Fullmetal Alchemist” was never serialized in the English-language edition of Shonen Jump, because it didn’t appear in Shonen Jump even […]

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 27 April 2008
Your Executive Summary and Index:
Manga Top 500
1. ↑1 (2) : Death […]

[commentary and actual analysis (oooh, shiny) on this week’s sales rankings]
I know you folks don’t bother to read comments, or any of my posts for that matter unless a kind friend of the blog happens to post a link, so I’ll take it as a given that you missed the discussion & commentary on last […]