'08 Summer Manga Rankings: Estimated Publisher Market Share, Take 2
So, I can almost hear you grumbling through the internet: “Mr. Blind, I take some exception to your applied mathematics re: the recently posted Estimated Market Share, I dare say some of your assumptions are off”
Or more likely: “Dude, are you drunker than normal? There’s no way all those 4th-tier manga pubs fall into neat same sized wedges like that“
SO, forget the fancy maths. No hybrid weighted scores, no ‘Top 2 + a tenth of the rest’, just Line ‘Em Up and Add The Totals:
I hope you strain your eyes.
And these are still just estimates. (Someone, please give me some real sales numbers already; compiling the estimates are taking up 20+ hours a week). Somewhere between this chart and the last one lies the truth.
Same as last time, the pie chart reads clockwise — here are the actual percentages.
801 Media 1.01
ADV 0.57
Archie Comics 0.15
Aurora Deux 0.44
Berkley 0.4
Boysenberry Books 0.1
Broccoli Books 0.37
CMX 0.32
Collins & Brown 0.17
Collins Design 0.19
Dark Horse 3.79
Del Rey 6.07
DMP 0.59
DMP June 1.78
First Second 0.22
Go! Comi 0.45
Graphic Sha 0.17
HarperCollins 0.55
HC/Tokyopop 2.31
Japan Publications Trading Co. 0.35
Japanime’s Manga University 0.35
Last Gasp 0.14
Media Blasters 0.51
Netcomics 0.38
Oni Press 0.21
Palgrave Macmillan 0.12
Random House Doubleday Galilee 0.24
Seven Seas 0.3
Seven Seas Strawberry 0.24
Simon & Schuster 0.66
Tokyopop 18.39
Tokyopop Blu 1.55
Udon 0.17
Vertical 0.89
Viz 5.6
Viz Ghibli Library 0.33
Viz Shojo Beat 11.85
Viz Shonen Jump 23.87
Viz Shonen Jump Advanced 10.75
Viz Signature 0.84
(Viz Total 54.21)
Vizkids 0.97
Yaoi Press 0.11
Yen Press 0.97
Other 0.67
Other includes all pubs scoring less than one tenth of one percent:
Alpha
Andrews McMeel
Antarctic Press
Aurora
Aurora LuvLuv
Bandai
Barron’s Educational
Be Beautiful
Cocoro Books
CPM
DC Comics
DMP Platinum
DramaQueen
Drawn & Quarterly
DrMaster
F&W Publications
Fanfare/Ponent Mon
Harper Design
HNA Abrams
HNA Amulet
IDW
Infinity Studios
Kodansha
Manic D Press
Minx
Random House Pantheon
Random House Villard
Rizzoli
Sixth & Spring
SLG Publishing
Stone Bridge Press
Tyndale
U of California Press
Viper Comics
Watson-Guptill
Wiley, John & Sons
& Zondervan
