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5by8 (21)
- 5by8 #29: The Blind Men and The Elephant in the Room
- 5by8 #28: Conditions on the Ground, and Your Weekend Homework Assignment
- 5by8, #26: So what’s the target?
- 5x8 #18: Ages of Fan IV
- 5x8 #17: The Ages of Fan III
- 5by8, #16: the Ages of Fan II
- 5by8, #15: The Ages of Fan (I)
- 5by8, #14: Acceleration
- 5by8, #13: ...but is it art?
- 5by8, #12: Manga. All the cool kids are doing it.
- 5by8, #11: Anime and Manga II
- 5by8, #10: Getting Inside
- 5by8, #9: Books vs. Comics vs. Magazines vs. Manga. Cage Match.
- 5by8, #8: Débuts, and Anthologies
- 5by8, #7: Attribution
- 5by8, #6: Questionable Content
- 5by8, #5: This coin has three sides.
- 5by8, #4: Three Filters
- 5by8, #2: Watching Anime, Reading Manga
- 5by8, #1: What is Manga?
- 5by8: Column Zero
anime (6)
- You got $20 this week? I've a recommendation.
- Emma MMF: The Anime
- Found: Miyazaki, Starting Point 1979-1996
- Business is Booming 1: ADV Transitions
- Top Anime: Week Ending 11 Jan
- Found: Captain N
business (64)
- Nook speculation at this early stage is dangerous, and likely useless
- Status update: since I haven't posted to rocketbomber.com in a month
- Engines of Industry
- Numbers and Perspective for B&N's AR
- Amazon and Taxing My Patience
- Cheaters Prosper
- Bookstores and Bookselling in Graphs, 1992 to 2010, with some other stuff
- Perfectly boring little post, nothing to see here, move along...
- Books are not Music
- Bank On It
- Taking the piss out of e-book propaganda.
- Illustrated Empire: Head Count
- Illustrated Empire: Own the Shop
- Illustrated Empire: Contractual Obligations
- The more things change...
- Out of Stock
- Agora and Marketplace
- Books Are Not Retail
- Borders Death Watch
- Breaking: rumours on Borders bankruptcy
- Rethinking the Box: The Unique Experience [Case Study 5 of 5]
- Hell of a way to run a railroad.
- Gadgets & Numbers, Comics & Apps
- The New B&N Nook Color
- Unique Bookstore Experiences: The Last Picture Show [case study 4 of 5]
- Unique Bookstore Experiences: The Reference Desk [case study 3 of 5]
- Unique Bookstore Experiences: Living Memory [case study 2 of 5]
- Unique Bookstore Experiences: Books & Brews [case study 1 of 5]
- Unique Experiences: An introduction, & the first of five case studies
- The Enduring Appeal of Cheap Pulp, even in the ebook era
- A humble attempt to rein in some of the more, *exuberant*, e-book predictions.
- The brothers McDonald, Mr. Barnes, & Mr. Noble.
- The Big Picture on Publishing, and a Primer on the Emerging Format War
- Dissecting Amazon
- Business Analysis: Amazon, and Retail
- Words Exchanged for Dollars: 5 questions.
- Here, let me read that for you...
- While the e-book market is going to explode...
- Scanlation and the Prisoners' Dilemma
- Business Analysis: Hey, you know what? We Sell Books.
- Two Nook Notes [updated]
- Rethinking the Box: Selling Books in the Post-Book Era
- Geek Biz Report, week ending 6 June 2010
- Geek Biz Report, week ending 30 May 2010
- Geek Biz Report, week ending 23 May 2010
- I've more optimism than the situation deserves.
- Geek Biz Report, week ending 16 May 2010
- Geek Biz Report, week ending 9 May 2010. [Updated]
- Geek Biz Report: week ending 2 May 2010
- Geek Biz Report: week ending 25 April 2010
- RBGSX update 1: sense of scale, sense of history.
- Geek Biz Report: week ending 18 April, 2010
- About the new RB Geek Stock Index
- The iPad is merely incidental to the rest of the ongoing discussion.
- Borders, B&N, and Business [updated]
- Rethinking the Box: Tables and Chairs
- Never ask advice from a blogger, Part II
- Found: MP3 Audiobook Downloads
- Never ask advice from a blogger.
- Rethinking the Box: 88 Lines about 44 Retail Considerations
- Rethinking the Box: Location, Location, Location... and will it play in Peoria?
- Business is Booming 3: Our Worlds are not our own
- Business is Booming 2: Kodansha Puzzles
- Business is Booming 1: ADV Transitions
comics (47)
- Graphic vs Novel vs Comic
- CMX versus Plastic [alas]
- Free Comic Book Day: May Day Revolt.
- Go. Read. Stephen Bissette on the New Comics Era.
- Free Comic Books Day, 2010, part 1.
- Top Shelf Swedish Invasion
- Last Week's Poll Results: New Release & Preorder Reports
- Ranking New Releases & Preorders, week ending 3 Jan '10
- Graphic Novel Rankings: 2010, Week 1
- Mmmm... new books... [*homeresquegargle*]
- Graphic Novel Rankings: 2009, Week 37
- Graphic Novel Rankings: 2009, Week 36
- Graphic Novel Rankings: 2009, Week 35
- Graphic Novel Rankings: 2009, Week 34
- 18 Graphic Novels (plus 4 other books of note) currently available 'e'
- The Future is Now: 20 Graphic Novels currently available as e-books (part 1)
- Graphic Novel Rankings: 2009, Week 33
- Not that they need me to encourage you to pile on...
- Kind of like a public radio fund drive but with comics as incentives instead of tumblers and tote bags.
- Graphic Novel Rankings: 2009, Week 32
- Graphic Novel Rankings: 2009, Week 31
- A special comment where I draw spurious and perhaps false parallels and analogies and yet still manage to make more sense than an office full of Alaskan Prosecutors
- spam=nofollow
- Graphic Novel Rankings, 2009 Week 30
- For any endeavor, knowing the scope of the project is damn handy -- if not necessary
- Found, and a suggestion: The Dark Age
- Found -- Usagi Yojimbo: Yokai
- Marvel 70th: In Atlanta
- Comics 500, 2009 Week 29
- and I know Cap's uniform is iconic, but what's the point of a dirt nap if there isn't a costume redesign?
- Found: 90 Classic Books for People in a Hurry
- Found: MySpace Dark Horse Presents.
- Graphic Novel Rankings, 2009 Week 21
- Found: Zot! online preview
- Placeholder: More Coming
- Graphic Novel Rankings, 2009 Week 20
- Graphic Novel Rankings, 2009 Week 19
- Wait... what?
- Graphic Novel Rankings, 2009 Week 15
- Aside:
- Found: Henry V GN.
- I could begin and end this with "Dr. Manhattan's Meatpacking District" and my work here would be done.
- Responses to Tom & Dave.
- Damn, more books to add to the teetering stacks on my nightstand...
- Abel, Madden on Sunday's "All Things Considered"
- Review: Stan Lee’s Amazing Marvel Universe
- Field Report: Scott McCloud Book Signing
commentary (139)
- Let's Talk About The Business, Then.
- Ebook Sales Update, 2012 final.
- Google Reader Refugee
- Arguing against Amazon and for publishers on the one side, arguing for web self-publishing and against Amazon on the other.
- Amazon: State of the Art for 1913
- Actually, My Phone Sucks - That Said:
- Org Chart
- Everything old is new again, if you wait long enough, and we're talking about dance videos.
- Internet Anchorites
- Thank You, handy-shorthand-title, but we're moving on
- Mind the Gap
- Making it rain.
- A new business model, growing beyond the Big Box Bookstore
- Stop adopting orphans.
- Beyond the Big Box
- Why the Big Box Bookstore?
- Amazon is a soul sucking leech on the book business.
- A life filled with Books
- Rocket Bomber Special: 2011 Holiday Gift Guide!
- Big Companies Are Fun To Work For
- Wanderlust, The End of Wanderlust, and Wanderlust
- Dead Air
- So nice to be drowning in data once again.
- Engines of Industry
- Self-awareness
- Perfectly boring little post, nothing to see here, move along...
- Can we talk about reasonable copyrights?
- Out of Stock
- Agora and Marketplace
- The Local
- Teens with Cash.
- Formats: A Historical Perspective
- Rethinking the box: What is a big-box bookstore worth?
- Graphic vs Novel vs Comic
- Bringing the Sexy Back.
- Either You Are With Us Or Against Us
- Rethinking the Box: Selling Books in the Post-Book Era ['Love' doesn't have an algorithm yet]
- Publishing Buggywhips
- CMX versus Plastic [alas]
- Geek Biz Report, week ending 9 May 2010. [Updated]
- Rocket Bomber Special: Ten Levels of Fandom
- Manga Moveable Feast: Mushishi, an overview
- Rethinking the Box: Sales vs Service
- Geek Biz Report: week ending 18 April, 2010
- About the new RB Geek Stock Index
- Rethinking the Box: The 4% solution.
- Straw Poll: Rankings Formats
- If I count all posts, this is "Kodansha VI"
- Wizard World Americano
- Emma MMF: Oh, and about that biplane...
- Recycling: Actually, yes, an accelerated release schedule is one of those things that will help manga sales.
- Rethinking the Box: Good Problems to Have.
- 7 Tips for Bloggers
- Never ask advice from a blogger, Part II
- Rethinking the Box: The Multiple Paradoxes of Coffee Table Books.
- Apple's Mad Genius
- Heck, I'm willing to go on the record with this, damn the torpedoes.
- 7 Tips for Podcasting.
- Spotlight: Andrews McMeel
- Rethinking the Box: Taking Stock.
- Good News/Bad News. Graphic Novel Clearance.
- Bringing Order to Chaos:
- Multi-track Recording. (a commentary on the charts, with an end-of-year thing tossed in as an afterthought)
- Form, Content, Copies, Rights, and Plato
- A special comment where I draw spurious and perhaps false parallels and analogies and yet still manage to make more sense than an office full of Alaskan Prosecutors
- A Year with Rosetta Stone -- Week 2*: Procrastination
- Linking To: CrossGen Redux (& New Genesis?)
- spam=nofollow
- Rosetta Stone, Week 1: Install, and First Impressions
- Rethinking the Box: Before you sign that lease.
- 26 Weeks with Rosetta Stone: Week Zero -- The Unboxing.
- Rethinking the Box: Are We Talking About the Same Thing?
- Addendum to the FAQ: under-the-hood changes to the charts
- COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC: Health Care
- Rethinking the Box: *Really* rethinking the box.
- Rethinking the Box: 7th Grade Algebra
- This isn't a tech blog, either: Today's distraction is the Dell Mini 10
- Rethinking the Box: The Eight Types of Bookseller
- Rethinking the Box: Motives
- Once more, and then I'm moving on.
- Reconsidering: The One Hundred Thousand.
- Rethinking the Box -- Beating the Big Box: Five Case Studies.
- Rethinking the Box: Application and Practice
- Rethinking the Box: The Seven Types of Customer.
- Hi Mom.
- Handley Reaction.
- An Editorial on the Charts
- And Again.
- The original title of this article was changed because it was a favourite of spammers
- Rethinking the Box: Books vs Comic Books
- Found: (sort of) Dusk
- Correction:
- Vampires overtake year-old-Shinigami; Everyone Should be Reading Fuyumi Ono (with a special note from me to DJ Milky); and, What a Difference a Week Makes.
- Application and Practice: Yes, I can do more than post long lists of titles.
- Rethinking the Box.
- 2008 Rankings: and Blood+ may just be my Rosetta Stone
- Late to the Party: Best of aught-eight, Wanted of aught-nine
- 5by8 #29: The Blind Men and The Elephant in the Room
- More Borders, and Matt's personal pipe dream.
- Borders Redux.
- Responses to Tom & Dave.
- Oh my sweet lord Odin is that an actual sales number?
- Shuffle, Fold, Bend, Spindle, Mutilate
- Rookie Mistakes
- Naruto is *over*. [updated!]
- Dragon*Con Saturday
- Busy Busy Busy... Dragon*Con '08
- I can't wait to see what search engines do with some of these quotes taken out of context.
- 5by8 #28: Conditions on the Ground, and Your Weekend Homework Assignment
- Running out of steam, Going Big, and novels - by request.
- The Magic Number is 9, I am not a robot, the podcast is in fact forthcoming, and um... manga and rankings and junk.
- attempted first podcast this evening; discoveries:
- Spotlight: Del Rey
- Online Gaming, Force Multipliers, Dice Rolls, and Magic Numbers
- Spotlight: Dark Horse
- Spotlight: CMX
- ...and of course, as you know, I'm channeling a very special brand of insanity to even think of these online rankings to begin with.
- Categories, Classifications, and Comments
- I don't track publ-of-origin, so I can't post a Kodansha listing
- "So, Smart Guy, what in the heck am I supposed to do with that big honkin' list?"
- Borders: the Crystal Ball Report
- Borders doesn’t care if you buy books online from them or not, apparently.
- 5by8, #26: So what’s the target?
- 5by8, #16: the Ages of Fan II
- 5by8, #15: The Ages of Fan (I)
- 5by8, #14: Acceleration
- 5by8, #13: ...but is it art?
- 5by8, #12: Manga. All the cool kids are doing it.
- 5by8, #11: Anime and Manga II
- 5by8, #10: Getting Inside
- 5by8, #9: Books vs. Comics vs. Magazines vs. Manga. Cage Match.
- 5by8, #8: Débuts, and Anthologies
- 5by8, #7: Attribution
- 5by8, #6: Questionable Content
- 5by8, #5: This coin has three sides.
- 5by8, #4: Three Filters
- 5by8, #2: Watching Anime, Reading Manga
- 5by8, #1: What is Manga?
- 5by8: Column Zero
diversions (1)
field-reports (7)
- The Local
- PR Wonks Note: I believe in "value added" link-blogging.
- Business Analysis: Hey, you know what? We Sell Books.
- Marvel 70th: In Atlanta
- AWA Update II
- Anime Weekend Atlanta: quick intro, sketchy schedule, blogging all weekend
- Field Report: Scott McCloud Book Signing
found (47)
- Found: Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential
- Found: The Art of Osamu Tezuka, God of Manga
- Found -- Manga Kamishibai: The Art of Japanese Paper Theater
- Found: Brave Story.
- Found: Miyazaki, Starting Point 1979-1996
- Found, and a suggestion: The Dark Age
- Found -- Usagi Yojimbo: Yokai
- Found: Vermonia, vol 1
- Found: The State complete series box.
- Found: Yokai Doctor vol 2.
- Found: Fruits Basket vols 1-23 Box Set
- Found: Rough Guides
- Found: 90 Classic Books for People in a Hurry
- Found: MySpace Dark Horse Presents.
- Found: Zot! online preview
- Can't Wipe the Smile Off My Face: Yotsuba&! found again!
- Found: Tintin/Dragonball Crossover.
- Found: GA - Geijutsuka Art Design Class
- Found: Flower of Life, vol 4.
- Found: Henry V GN.
- Found: Gakuen Prince vol 1
- Found: Avalon Manga from Seven Seas
- Found: (sort of) Dusk
- Found: InVisible
- Found: Dark Hunters vol 1 (2nd pass)
- Found: The Onion has hired an Otaku
- Found: Sherrilyn Kenyon Manga
- Found: Usagi Yojimbo Special
- Found -- Video: Tezuka, Sabuda, and Reinhart.
- Found: Gaba Kawa
- Found: Captain N
- Found: Edo Cats -- Tails of Old Tokyo
- Found (updated): Yaoi Press Bundles
- Found: AX
- Found: Deux on Amazon
- Found: The Rough Guide to Manga
- Found: VizBig editions from... Shojo Beat
- Found: Lucky Star Manga
- Found: Remote, vol 10
- Found: Style School (Small S U.S. editions) vols. 3 & 4
- Found: Mechademia 3
- Found: (and I swear this is the title) Tantric Stripfighter Trina
- Found: Amazing Agent Luna vol 5
- Found: The Tale of Genji
- Found: Yaoi Gold
- Found.
- Found #1: Black Jack
general-fandom (36)
- Set your alarms now: Tokyopop sale at B&N 9/19, 9AM local time.
- LotR Extended Cuts in Theaters, coming June
- Found: Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential
- Caption this photo:
- You got $20 this week? I've a recommendation.
- Rocket Bomber Special: Ten Levels of Fandom
- Free Comic Book Day: May Day Revolt.
- Fan Service?
- Wizard World Americano
- Showing up late to the great Manga/Anime/Scan/Fansub/P2P debate...
- Free Comic Books Day, 2010, part 1.
- Heck, I'm willing to go on the record with this, damn the torpedoes.
- Can We Fix This?
- I lost an entire night's productivity to this video.
- linking to -- Project Rooftop: Look Sharp
- 26 Weeks with Rosetta Stone: Week Zero -- The Unboxing.
- This isn't a link blog, part II
- This isn't a link blog, part I
- Found: Rough Guides
- Handley Reaction.
- Am I the only person to notice this?
- Oh... by the way...
- [*expletive*] - so now I have to 'splain...
- I could begin and end this with "Dr. Manhattan's Meatpacking District" and my work here would be done.
- Found (sort of): Manga Cookbook, with goodies, and recommendations.
- 2008 Non-Fiction Chart
- Late to the Party: Best of aught-eight, Wanted of aught-nine
- Found -- Video: Tezuka, Sabuda, and Reinhart.
- Found: Mechademia 3
- AWA Update II
- Anime Weekend Atlanta: quick intro, sketchy schedule, blogging all weekend
- Dragon*Con Saturday
- Busy Busy Busy... Dragon*Con '08
- NPR on SDCC
- 5x8 #18: Ages of Fan IV
- 5x8 #17: The Ages of Fan III
- Caption this photo:
- Rethinking the Box: linking to other people's stuff
- Fan Service?
- Go. Read. Stephen Bissette on the New Comics Era.
- Cash_for_Robot
- The Other Shoe: Borders partners with Indigo's Shortcovers for E-Books
- Technical difficulties.
- Same story, different perspective
- Not that they need me to encourage you to pile on...
- Kind of like a public radio fund drive but with comics as incentives instead of tumblers and tote bags.
- Rethinking the Box: Quick Update
- I'll not only link, I'll steal his subject line: There Isn't One Bestseller List.
- Can We Fix This?
- I lost an entire night's productivity to this video.
- Linking To: CrossGen Redux (& New Genesis?)
- linking to -- Project Rooftop: Look Sharp
- This isn't a link blog, part II
- This isn't a link blog, part I
- and I know Cap's uniform is iconic, but what's the point of a dirt nap if there isn't a costume redesign?
- Am I the only person to notice this?
- OEL, again (and again, and again, and...)
- Found: The Onion has hired an Otaku
- Found (sort of): Manga Cookbook, with goodies, and recommendations.
- Link: top 300 manga series.
- NPR on SDCC
- Damn, more books to add to the teetering stacks on my nightstand...
- Credit where due:
- Abel, Madden on Sunday's "All Things Considered"
manga (389)
- I'll leave the amount of gloating and "I told you so" I should be doing right now as an exercise for the student.
- Mea Culpa - apparently not everyone has the same Local Bookstore
- Set your alarms now: Tokyopop sale at B&N 9/19, 9AM local time.
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 37
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 36
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 35
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 34
- Me vs ICv2 (not that there's a competition or anything)
- Another index to a mess of indices: Spring 2011 Manga Charts
- 2011 Q2 Spring Cumulative Manga Bestseller Chart
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 33
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 32
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 31
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 30
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 29
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 28
- Here is your handy catch-up post for the charts so far
- 2011 Q1 Winter Cumulative Manga Bestseller Chart
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 27
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 26
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 25
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 24
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 23
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 22
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 21
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 20
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 19
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 18
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 17
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 16
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 15
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 14
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 13
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 12
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 11
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 10
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 9
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 8
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 7
- One more year, one more gnarly mess of online sales data and another brave attempt to de-tangle it.
- 2010 Q4 Autumn Cumulative Manga Bestseller Chart
- 2010 Q3 Summer Cumulative Manga Bestseller Chart
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 1
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 52
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 51
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 6
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 5
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 4
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 3
- New Manga, 18 Jan 2011
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 2
- New Manga, 10 Jan 2011
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 50
- New Manga, 3 Jan 2011
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 49
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 48
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 47
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 46
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 45
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 44
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 43
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 42
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 41
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 40
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 39
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 38
- Del Rey Manga Freeze?
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 37
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 36
- Yotsuba & Charlie, Yotsuba & Calvin, Yotsuba & Bugs, Yotsuba & South Park, Yotsuba & Harry, Yotsuba & Parents.
- Breakout: Dark Horse
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 35
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 34
- Breakout: Yen Press
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 33
- Breakout: Global Manga [from the 8 Aug charts]
- Breakout: Manhwa [from the 8 Aug charts]
- Breakout: Boys Love/Yaoi [from the 8 Aug charts]
- Breakout: Viz Signature/Sig Ikki et al.
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2008, Week 32
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 31
- Breakout: One Piece
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 30
- Scanlation and the Prisoners' Dilemma
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 29
- I'd just like to point out:
- About the Charts
- About the Math
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 28
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 27
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, week 26
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 25
- A Manga Database. For you to Use, Reuse, Remix, and Enjoy.
- Farewell, Emma.
- Emma MMF: Daily Diary, Vols. 7 & 10
- Emma MMF Daily Diary Special: The Emmaverse
- Emma MMF: Michelle Smith
- Emma MMF: Eva Volin & Robin Brenner
- Emma MMF: Daily Diary, vol. 6
- An Intermission: For want of a book.
- Emma MMF: Lissa Pattillo
- Emma MMF: Jason S. Yadao
- Emma MMF: Daily Diary, vol. 5
- Emma MMF: David Welsh pt. 2
- Emma MMF: Brigid Alverson et al.
- Emma MMF: Daily Diary, vol. 4
- Emma MMF: Katherine Dacey
- Emma MMF: David Welsh
- Emma MMF: Khursten Santos
- Emma MMF: Daily Diary, vol. 3
- Emma MMF: Rob McMonigal
- Emma MMF: Johanna Draper Carlson
- Emma MMF: Daily Diary, vol. 2
- Emma MMF: Daily Diary, vol. 1
- Emma MMF: Wilma Jandoc
- Emma MMF: Garrett Albright
- April MMF: Mushishi
- Emma: About the Series
- Recycling: Actually, yes, an accelerated release schedule is one of those things that will help manga sales.
- Vote for the April Manga Moveable Feast.
- Soliciting Nominations for the Third MMF
- Announcing the Second Manga Moveable Feast
- A Commentary on the Manga Moveable Feast, and of course a review.
- Found: The Art of Osamu Tezuka, God of Manga
- Found -- Manga Kamishibai: The Art of Japanese Paper Theater
- Found: Brave Story.
- Found: Vermonia, vol 1
- Found: Yokai Doctor vol 2.
- Found: Fruits Basket vols 1-23 Box Set
- Can't Wipe the Smile Off My Face: Yotsuba&! found again!
- Found: GA - Geijutsuka Art Design Class
- Found: Flower of Life, vol 4.
- Found: Gakuen Prince vol 1
- Manga 500, 2009 week 14
- Found: Avalon Manga from Seven Seas
- Manga 500, 2009 week 13
- Correction:
- Vampires overtake year-old-Shinigami; Everyone Should be Reading Fuyumi Ono (with a special note from me to DJ Milky); and, What a Difference a Week Makes.
- Your Executive Summary and Index, Week Ending 15 March 2009
- Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 15 March 2009
- New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 15 March 2009
- Manga 500, 2009 week 12
- Your Executive Summary and Index, Week Ending 8 March 2009
- Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 8 March 2009
- New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 8 March 2009
- Manga 500, 2009 week 11
- Found: InVisible
- Found: Dark Hunters vol 1 (2nd pass)
- Application and Practice: Yes, I can do more than post long lists of titles.
- Rankings Summary, week ending 1 March 2009
- Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 1 March 2009
- New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 1 March 2009
- Manga 500, 2009 week 10
- Rankings Summary, week ending 22 February 2009
- Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 22 February 2009
- New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 22 February 2009
- Manga 500, 2009 week 9
- Comparing Apples to Oranges: 2008 rankings redux
- My Data is Your Data: 2008 Rankings
- Rankings Summary, week ending 15 February 2009
- Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 15 February 2009
- New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 15 February 2009
- Manga 500, 2009 week 8
- Rankings Summary, week ending 8 February 2009
- Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 8 February 2009
- New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 8 February 2009
- Manga 500, 2009 week 7
- Rankings Summary, week ending 1 February 2009
- Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 1 February 2009
- New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 1 February 2009
- Manga 500, 2009 week 6
- Kodansha USA III
- Rankings Summary, week ending 25 January 2009
- Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 25 January 2009
- New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 25 January 2009
- Manga 500, 2009 week 5
- 2008: Publishers' Scorecard
- 2008 Charts: Naruto
- 2008 Charts: 2008 manga releases
- Chart: Estimated Market Share, 2008
- Rankings Summary, week ending 18 January 2009
- Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 18 January 2009
- New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 18 January 2009
- Manga 500, 2009 week 4
- Found: Sherrilyn Kenyon Manga
- Found: Usagi Yojimbo Special
- Rankings Summary, week ending 11 January 2009
- Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 11 January 2009
- New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 11 January 2009
- Manga 500, 2009 Week 3
- Found: Gaba Kawa
- Rewind: Top Manga of 2007
- Rankings Summary, week ending 4 January 2009
- Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 4 January 2009
- New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 4 January 2009
- Manga 500, Vol 2 Week 2
- Found: Edo Cats -- Tails of Old Tokyo
- Teaser: week ending 4 Jan.
- Found (updated): Yaoi Press Bundles
- Found: AX
- Found: Deux on Amazon
- Rankings Summary, week ending 28 December 2008
- Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 28 December 2008
- New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 28 December 2008
- Manga 500, Vol. 2 Week 1
- Found: The Rough Guide to Manga
- Found: VizBig editions from... Shojo Beat
- Found: Lucky Star Manga
- Found: Remote, vol 10
- Teaser: Top Volumes and Series for week ending 28 Dec.
- Found: Style School (Small S U.S. editions) vols. 3 & 4
- Rankings Summary, week ending 21 December 2008
- Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 21 December 2008
- New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 21 December 2008
- Manga 500, week 51
- Teaser: First Squeezed Charts, week ending 21 Dec.
- Found: (and I swear this is the title) Tantric Stripfighter Trina
- Found: Amazing Agent Luna vol 5
- Found: The Tale of Genji
- Found: Yaoi Gold
- Found #1: Black Jack
- Rankings Summary, week ending 14 December 2008
- Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 14 December 2008
- New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 14 December 2008
- Manga 500, week 50
- A Teaser: Quick top 25 for week ending 14 Dec.
- Rankings Summary, week ending 16 November 2008
- Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 16 November 2008
- New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 16 November 2008
- Manga 500, week 46
- Rankings Summary, week ending 9 November 2008
- Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 9 November 2008
- New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 9 November 2008
- Manga 500, week 45
- Rankings Summary, week ending 2 November 2008
- Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 2 November 2008
- New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 2 November 2008
- Manga 500, week 44
- Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 26 October 2008
- New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 26 October 2008
- Rankings Summary, week ending 26 October 2008
- Manga 500, week 43
- '08 Summer Manga Rankings: By Publisher
- '08 Summer Manga Rankings: Viz Tar Ball
- '08 Summer Manga Rankings: Shakespeare!
- '08 Summer Manga Rankings: Non-Fiction
- '08 Summer Manga Rankings: Manga-associated Novels
- '08 Summer Manga Rankings: Estimated Publisher Market Share, Take 2
- '08 Summer Manga Rankings: Publishers' Scorecard
- '08 Summer Manga Rankings: Estimated Publisher Market Share
- '08 Summer Manga Rankings: Top 150 Series
- My Data is Your Data: '08 Summer Manga Rankings
- Info Dump: '08 Summer Manga Rankings
- Rankings Summary, week ending 12 October 2008
- Manga 500, week 41
- An open letter to Messrs. Cthulhu and A. Nony Mouse, with a side note for Mr. Green and the internets.
- Rankings Summary, week ending 5 October 2008
- Manga 500, week 40
- Checking in with Kodansha (and Cthulhu)
- Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 28 September 2008
- New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 28 September 2008
- Rankings Summary, week ending 28 September 2008
- Manga 500, week 39
- Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 21 September 2008
- New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 21 September 2008
- Rankings Summary, week ending 21 September 2008
- Manga 500, week 38
- Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 14 September 2008
- New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 14 September 2008
- Rankings Summary, week ending 14 September 2008
- Manga 500, week 37
- Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 7 September
- New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 7 September
- Rankings Summary, week ending 7 September 2008
- Manga 500, week 36
- New Releases Chart, August Final
- Online Pre-orders, week ending 31 August
- An as yet un-named special chart: new, new, *new* titles
- Spotlight: Graphic-Sha and Japanime's Manga University
- Rankings Summary, week ending 31 August 2008
- Manga 500, week 35
- New Releases Chart, August week 4
- Online Pre-orders, week ending 24 August
- Rankings Summary, week ending 24 August 2008
- Manga 500, week 34
- New Releases Chart, August week 3
- Online Pre-orders, week ending 17 August
- Rankings Summary, week ending 17 August 2008
- Manga 500, week 33
- Spotlight: Broccoli Books
- Market Share Estimates, with extra ooma*
- New Releases Chart, August week 2
- Online Pre-orders, week ending 10 August
- Rankings Summary, week ending 10 August 2008
- Manga 500, Week 32
- Spotlight: DMP, DMP June, & 801
- The Magic Number is 9, I am not a robot, the podcast is in fact forthcoming, and um... manga and rankings and junk.
- New Releases Chart, August week 1
- Online Pre-orders, week ending 3 August
- Rankings Summary, week ending 3 Aug 2008
- Manga Top 500, Week 31
- New Releases Chart, July Final
- Online Pre-orders, week ending 28 July
- Spotlight: Del Rey
- Rankings Summary, week ending 27 July 2008
- Manga Top 500, Week 30
- Ranking New Releases and Preorders, Week of 21 July
- Spotlight: Dark Horse
- Rankings Summary, week ending 20 July 2008
- Manga Top 500, Week 29
- Me, vs. ICv2
- Manga Top 500, Week 28
- Spotlight: ADV Manga
- Spotlight: Aurora Publishing
- Manga Top 500, Week 27
- Aside:
- Estimated Online Sales Rankings For the Week Ending 29 June 2008
- Estimated Online Sales Rankings For the Week Ending 22 June 2008
- About the Charts
- I'll have my hat, with a side of crow, and some humble pie.
- The Backlist: Quarterly Manga Rankings, Spring '08
- how about a top 40?
- Review: Shugo Chara, vol. 1
- Manga Watch List: 1-7 April
- Review: Genshiken, vol. 8
- Manga Watch List: 25-31 March
- Review: Errant Story, vol. 1
- Manga Watch List, 18-24 March
- Manga Watch List: 11 March to 17 March, 2007
- Review: In the Starlight, vol. 1
- Review: Hayate the Combat Butler, vol. 2
- Manga Watch List: 4 March to 10 March
- Review: Inubaka — Crazy for Dogs, vol. 1
- Review: Air Gear, vol. 3
- Short Form II: Player, Ninja, Baker, Agent
- Review: Suzuka, vol. 3
- Manga Watch List: 25 February to 3 March
- Review: O-Parts Hunter, Vols. 1 & 2
- Review: To Terra… vol. 1
- Review: Roadsong, vols. 1 & 2
- Review: Because I’m the Goddess, Vols. 1 & 2
- Review: Read or Die, vols 2-4 (of 4)
- Manga Watch List: 18 February
- Review: Onegai Twins
- Review: Rose Hip Zero, Vol. 1
- Review: Read or Dream, vols 1 & 2
- Review: E’s, Vol. 1
- Review: Legend, Vol. 1
- Manga Watch List: 11 Feb to 17 Feb
- Review: Tail of the Moon, Vols. 1 & 2
- Review: Enchanter, Vol. 1
- Review: Amazing Agent Luna, Vol. 1
- Review: Archlord, Vol. 1
- Review: Pantheon High 1
- Manga Watch List: 4 Feb to 10 Feb
- Review: Hibiki’s Magic
- Review: 0/6 (zero six) Vols 1 & 2
- Review: Innocent W, Vols. 1 & 2
- Review: Elemental Gelade, Vols. 1 & 2
- Review: Snow, Vol. 1
- Weekly Watch List (manga edition): 28 Jan to 3 Feb
- Review: Angel Cup, Vols. 1 & 2
- Review: Mushishi, Vol. 1
- Review: Utopia’s Avenger, Vol. 1
- Review: Suzuka, Vols. 1 & 2
- Review: Blank, Vol. 1
- Review: Yakitate!! Japan, Vols. 1 & 2
- Review: Kashimashi, Vol. 1
- Review: Phantom, Vol. 1
- Review: Train + Train, Vol. 1
- Short Form I: Kat, Paper, Robot, Harima
- Review: Hayate the Combat Butler, Vol. 1
- Review: Buddha, Vol. 1
- Review: The Dreaming, Vols. 1 & 2
- Review: Last Hope, Vol. 1
- Review: Return to Labyrinth, Vol. 1
- Review: Kat & Mouse, Vol. 1
- Review: Neon Genesis Evangelion — Angelic Days, Vol. 2
- Review: Welcome to the N.H.K., Vol. 1
- Review: Someday’s Dreamers - Spellbound, Vol. 1
- Review: Someday’s Dreamers, Vols. 1 & 2
- Review: My-HiME, Vol. 1
- Review: Recast, Vol. 1
- Review: By the Sword, Vol. 1
- Review: Air Gear, Vol. 2
- Review: Air Gear, Vol. 1
- Review: School Rumble, Vol. 1
- Review: Captain Nemo, Vol. 1
- Review: Read or Die, Vol. 1
Manga-Moveable-Feast (42)
- Thank YOU, everyone, for participating in the November 2012 Thankful Manga Feast
- Rest, and Reflection
- A Thankful Manga Feast: Friday Roundup
- A Thankful Manga Feast: Thursday Roundup
- A Thankful MMF Daily Diary: Seldom Has So Much Been Owed by So Many to So Few
- A Thankful Manga Feast: Wednesday Roundup
- A Thankful MMF Daily Diary: Voyage of Discovery
- Call For Participation, The November 2012 MMF: A Thankful Manga Feast
- Yotsuba & Charlie, Yotsuba & Calvin, Yotsuba & Bugs, Yotsuba & South Park, Yotsuba & Harry, Yotsuba & Parents.
- MMF Appetizer: Three for Kids.
- Manhwa Moveable Feast: The Color of Earth
- Manga Moveable Feast: Mushishi, an overview
- Farewell, Emma.
- Emma MMF: The Anime
- Emma MMF: Daily Diary, Vols. 7 & 10
- Emma MMF Daily Diary Special: The Emmaverse
- Emma MMF: Michelle Smith
- Emma MMF: Eva Volin & Robin Brenner
- Emma MMF: Daily Diary, vol. 6
- An Intermission: For want of a book.
- Emma MMF: Lissa Pattillo
- Emma MMF: Jason S. Yadao
- Emma MMF: Daily Diary, vol. 5
- Emma MMF: David Welsh pt. 2
- Emma MMF: Brigid Alverson et al.
- Emma MMF: Daily Diary, vol. 4
- Emma MMF: Oh, and about that biplane...
- Emma MMF: Katherine Dacey
- Emma MMF: David Welsh
- Emma MMF: Khursten Santos
- Emma MMF: Daily Diary, vol. 3
- Emma MMF: Rob McMonigal
- Emma MMF: Johanna Draper Carlson
- Emma MMF: Daily Diary, vol. 2
- Emma MMF: Daily Diary, vol. 1
- Emma MMF: Wilma Jandoc
- Emma MMF: Garrett Albright
- April MMF: Mushishi
- Emma: About the Series
- Vote for the April Manga Moveable Feast.
- Soliciting Nominations for the Third MMF
- Announcing the Second Manga Moveable Feast
metablogging (2)
publishing (56)
- Ebook Sales Update, 2012 final.
- I'll leave the amount of gloating and "I told you so" I should be doing right now as an exercise for the student.
- Arguing against Amazon and for publishers on the one side, arguing for web self-publishing and against Amazon on the other.
- Ebook sales projection, 2012, second update.
- Ebook sales projection, 2012 edition
- A life filled with Books
- The Age of Industrial Bookselling, 1931-2011
- Ebooks, predictions, math that lies.
- Amazonification
- Books are not Music
- Taking the piss out of e-book propaganda.
- Illustrated Empire: Head Count
- I Hate Stu Levy
- Illustrated Empire: Own the Shop
- Illustrated Empire: Contractual Obligations
- Can we talk about reasonable copyrights?
- The more things change...
- Gadgets & Numbers, Comics & Apps
- A humble attempt to rein in some of the more, *exuberant*, e-book predictions.
- Reconciling Data: Book Retail vs Book Publishing
- Del Rey Manga Freeze?
- The brothers McDonald, Mr. Barnes, & Mr. Noble.
- Here, let me start a rumour... [UPDATED]
- Formats: A Historical Perspective
- The Big Picture on Publishing, and a Primer on the Emerging Format War
- While the e-book market is going to explode...
- E-Books and Readers: Price War, Betamax, Snake Oil, Razor Blades, and Apple Pie
- Say... funny thing I just noticed...
- E-books, retail, publishing: One More Time
- Publishing Buggywhips
- I've more optimism than the situation deserves.
- If I count all posts, this is "Kodansha VI"
- The iPad is merely incidental to the rest of the ongoing discussion.
- Top Shelf Swedish Invasion
- Spotlight: Andrews McMeel
- 18 Graphic Novels (plus 4 other books of note) currently available 'e'
- The Future is Now: 20 Graphic Novels currently available as e-books (part 1)
- Form, Content, Copies, Rights, and Plato
- Never ask advice from a blogger.
- Business is Booming 3: Our Worlds are not our own
- Business is Booming 2: Kodansha Puzzles
- Kodansha USA III
- An open letter to Messrs. Cthulhu and A. Nony Mouse, with a side note for Mr. Green and the internets.
- Checking in with Kodansha (and Cthulhu)
- Spotlight: Graphic-Sha and Japanime's Manga University
- Online Pre-orders, week ending 24 August
- Spotlight: Broccoli Books
- Market Share Estimates, with extra ooma*
- Online Pre-orders, week ending 10 August
- Spotlight: DMP, DMP June, & 801
- Have Fun Digging. (aka The illusionary dollars of layoffs and new media)
- Spotlight: CMX
- Spotlight: ADV Manga
- Spotlight: Aurora Publishing
- I'll have my hat, with a side of crow, and some humble pie.
- 2007: in review
rankings (214)
- No, the manga bestsellers aren't running late again...
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 37
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 36
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 35
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 34
- 2011 Q2 Spring Cumulative Manga Bestseller Chart
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 33
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 32
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 31
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 30
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 29
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 28
- 2011 Q1 Winter Cumulative Manga Bestseller Chart
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 27
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 26
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 25
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 24
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 23
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 22
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 21
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 20
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 19
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 18
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 17
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 16
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 15
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 14
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 13
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 12
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 11
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 10
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 9
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 8
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 7
- 2010 Q4 Autumn Cumulative Manga Bestseller Chart
- 2010 Q3 Summer Cumulative Manga Bestseller Chart
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 1
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 52
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 51
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 6
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 5
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 4
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 3
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 2
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 50
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 49
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 48
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 47
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 46
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 45
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 44
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 43
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 42
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 41
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 40
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 39
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 38
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 37
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 36
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 35
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 34
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 33
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2008, Week 32
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 31
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 30
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 29
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 28
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 27
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, week 26
- Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 25
- A Manga Database. For you to Use, Reuse, Remix, and Enjoy.
- Straw Poll: Rankings Formats
- Last Week's Poll Results: New Release & Preorder Reports
- Graphic Novel Rankings: 2010, Week 2
- Good News/Bad News. Graphic Novel Clearance.
- Bringing Order to Chaos:
- Ranking New Releases & Preorders, week ending 3 Jan '10
- Graphic Novel Rankings: 2010, Week 1
- Graphic Novel Rankings: 2009, Week 37
- Graphic Novel Rankings: 2009, Week 36
- Graphic Novel Rankings: 2009, Week 35
- Graphic Novel Rankings: 2009, Week 34
- Graphic Novel Rankings: 2009, Week 33
- Graphic Novel Rankings: 2009, Week 32
- Graphic Novel Rankings: 2009, Week 31
- I'll not only link, I'll steal his subject line: There Isn't One Bestseller List.
- Graphic Novel Rankings, 2009 Week 30
- Correction: Graphic Novel Rankings, 2009 Week 30
- For any endeavor, knowing the scope of the project is damn handy -- if not necessary
- Addendum to the FAQ: under-the-hood changes to the charts
- Comics 500, 2009 Week 29
- What's new with the Graphic Novel charts.
- About the Charts
- And stuff like this is Reason One that I need a new laptop.
- An Editorial on the Charts
- Graphic Novel Rankings, 2009 Week 21
- Placeholder: More Coming
- Graphic Novel Rankings, 2009 Week 20
- Graphic Novel Rankings, 2009 Week 19
- Graphic Novel Rankings, 2009 Week 15
- Manga 500, 2009 week 14
- Manga 500, 2009 week 13
- Your Executive Summary and Index, Week Ending 15 March 2009
- Manga 500, 2009 week 12
- Your Executive Summary and Index, Week Ending 8 March 2009
- Manga 500, 2009 week 11
- Rankings Summary, week ending 1 March 2009
- Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 1 March 2009
- Manga 500, 2009 week 10
- Rankings Summary, week ending 22 February 2009
- Manga 500, 2009 week 9
- Comparing Apples to Oranges: 2008 rankings redux
- My Data is Your Data: 2008 Rankings
- Rankings Summary, week ending 15 February 2009
- Manga 500, 2009 week 8
- Rankings Summary, week ending 8 February 2009
- Manga 500, 2009 week 7
- Rankings Summary, week ending 1 February 2009
- Manga 500, 2009 week 6
- Rankings Summary, week ending 25 January 2009
- Manga 500, 2009 week 5
- 2008 Rankings: and Blood+ may just be my Rosetta Stone
- 2008 Manga-related Prose Fiction Chart
- 2008 Non-Fiction Chart
- 2008: Publishers' Scorecard
- 2008 Charts: Naruto
- 2008 Charts: 2008 manga releases
- Chart: Estimated Market Share, 2008
- Rankings Summary, week ending 18 January 2009
- Manga 500, 2009 week 4
- Rankings Summary, week ending 11 January 2009
- Manga 500, 2009 Week 3
- Top Anime: Week Ending 11 Jan
- Link: top 300 manga series.
- Rewind: Top Manga of 2007
- RE: the opinion poll. Rankings of Anime Online sales. Fair Warning.
- Rankings Summary, week ending 4 January 2009
- Manga 500, Vol 2 Week 2
- Teaser: week ending 4 Jan.
- Rankings Summary, week ending 28 December 2008
- Manga 500, Vol. 2 Week 1
- Teaser: Top Volumes and Series for week ending 28 Dec.
- Rankings Summary, week ending 21 December 2008
- Manga 500, week 51
- Teaser: First Squeezed Charts, week ending 21 Dec.
- Rankings Summary, week ending 14 December 2008
- Manga 500, week 50
- Oh my sweet lord Odin is that an actual sales number?
- A Teaser: Quick top 25 for week ending 14 Dec.
- Rankings Summary, week ending 16 November 2008
- Manga 500, week 46
- Rankings Summary, week ending 9 November 2008
- Manga 500, week 45
- Shuffle, Fold, Bend, Spindle, Mutilate
- Rankings Summary, week ending 2 November 2008
- Manga 500, week 44
- Rankings Summary, week ending 26 October 2008
- Manga 500, week 43
- '08 Summer Manga Rankings: By Publisher
- '08 Summer Manga Rankings: Viz Tar Ball
- '08 Summer Manga Rankings: Shakespeare!
- '08 Summer Manga Rankings: Non-Fiction
- '08 Summer Manga Rankings: Manga-associated Novels
- '08 Summer Manga Rankings: Estimated Publisher Market Share, Take 2
- '08 Summer Manga Rankings: Publishers' Scorecard
- '08 Summer Manga Rankings: Estimated Publisher Market Share
- '08 Summer Manga Rankings: Top 150 Series
- My Data is Your Data: '08 Summer Manga Rankings
- Info Dump: '08 Summer Manga Rankings
- Rankings Summary, week ending 12 October 2008
- Manga 500, week 41
- Rankings Summary, week ending 5 October 2008
- Manga 500, week 40
- Rookie Mistakes
- Rankings Summary, week ending 28 September 2008
- Manga 500, week 39
- Naruto is *over*. [updated!]
- Rankings Summary, week ending 21 September 2008
- Manga 500, week 38
- Rankings Summary, week ending 14 September 2008
- Manga 500, week 37
- Info Dump:
- Rankings Summary, week ending 7 September 2008
- Manga 500, week 36
- Rankings Summary, week ending 31 August 2008
- Manga 500, week 35
- I can't wait to see what search engines do with some of these quotes taken out of context.
- Rankings Summary, week ending 24 August 2008
- Manga 500, week 34
- Online Pre-orders, week ending 17 August
- Running out of steam, Going Big, and novels - by request.
- Rankings Summary, week ending 17 August 2008
- Manga 500, week 33
- Rankings Summary, week ending 10 August 2008
- Manga 500, Week 32
- Rankings Summary, week ending 3 Aug 2008
- Manga Top 500, Week 31
- Online Gaming, Force Multipliers, Dice Rolls, and Magic Numbers
- Rankings Summary, week ending 27 July 2008
- Manga Top 500, Week 30
- Rankings Summary, week ending 20 July 2008
- Manga Top 500, Week 29
- ...and of course, as you know, I'm channeling a very special brand of insanity to even think of these online rankings to begin with.
- Manga Top 500, Week 28
- Categories, Classifications, and Comments
- Manga Top 500, Week 27
- I don't track publ-of-origin, so I can't post a Kodansha listing
- Estimated Online Sales Rankings For the Week Ending 29 June 2008
- Estimated Online Sales Rankings For the Week Ending 22 June 2008
- About the Charts
- "So, Smart Guy, what in the heck am I supposed to do with that big honkin' list?"
- The Backlist: Quarterly Manga Rankings, Spring '08
- how about a top 40?
- Review: Air Gear, vol. 3
rankings-analysis (16)
- No, the manga bestsellers aren't running late again...
- So nice to be drowning in data once again.
- Me vs ICv2 (not that there's a competition or anything)
- Another index to a mess of indices: Spring 2011 Manga Charts
- Here is your handy catch-up post for the charts so far
- One more year, one more gnarly mess of online sales data and another brave attempt to de-tangle it.
- Breakout: Dark Horse
- Breakout: Yen Press
- Breakout: Global Manga [from the 8 Aug charts]
- Breakout: Manhwa [from the 8 Aug charts]
- Breakout: Boys Love/Yaoi [from the 8 Aug charts]
- Breakout: Viz Signature/Sig Ikki et al.
- Breakout: One Piece
- I'd just like to point out:
- About the Charts
- About the Math
RBGSX (7)
- Geek Biz Report, week ending 6 June 2010
- Geek Biz Report, week ending 30 May 2010
- Geek Biz Report, week ending 23 May 2010
- Geek Biz Report, week ending 16 May 2010
- Geek Biz Report: week ending 2 May 2010
- Geek Biz Report: week ending 25 April 2010
- RBGSX update 1: sense of scale, sense of history.
recipes (4)
- Sunday Suppers: Whole Damn Chickens
- Sunday Soups #3: Angry Birds.
- Sunday Soups #2: no recipe this week. Frozen, Mistakes, Methods, & Experiments
- Sunday Soups: #1 - Bean & Bacon Soup
retail (91)
- Let's Talk About The Business, Then.
- Amazon: State of the Art for 1913
- Rocket Bomber Special: 2012 Holiday Gift Guide!
- Ebook sales projection, 2012, second update.
- Making it rain.
- Ebook sales projection, 2012 edition
- A new business model, growing beyond the Big Box Bookstore
- Stop adopting orphans.
- Beyond the Big Box
- Why the Big Box Bookstore?
- Amazon is a soul sucking leech on the book business.
- Price Tags. Opportunity Cost.
- Nook speculation at this early stage is dangerous, and likely useless
- An Elegy Sung by a Mourner Riding the Bookstore Viking Ship, Already Set Ablaze
- Rocket Bomber Special: 2011 Holiday Gift Guide!
- A statement on Digital Bookstores, in 5 tweets.
- Big Companies Are Fun To Work For
- Wanderlust, The End of Wanderlust, and Wanderlust
- The Age of Industrial Bookselling, 1931-2011
- Mea Culpa - apparently not everyone has the same Local Bookstore
- Rethinking the Box: The Craziest Idea Yet.
- Ebooks, predictions, math that lies.
- Numbers and Perspective for B&N's AR
- Third of Three Rants (for now) on the New Realities of Bookselling.
- The Second of what is apparently now at least three rants on Bookselling
- First of Two Rants on the New Realities of Bookselling
- Amazon and Taxing My Patience
- Cheaters Prosper
- Bookstores and Bookselling in Graphs, 1992 to 2010, with some other stuff
- Amazonification
- Bank On It
- Teens with Cash.
- Books Are Not Retail
- Borders Death Watch
- Breaking: rumours on Borders bankruptcy
- Rethinking the Box: The Unique Experience [Case Study 5 of 5]
- Hell of a way to run a railroad.
- The New B&N Nook Color
- Unique Bookstore Experiences: The Last Picture Show [case study 4 of 5]
- Unique Bookstore Experiences: The Reference Desk [case study 3 of 5]
- Unique Bookstore Experiences: Living Memory [case study 2 of 5]
- Unique Bookstore Experiences: Books & Brews [case study 1 of 5]
- Unique Experiences: An introduction, & the first of five case studies
- Just sayin'
- The Enduring Appeal of Cheap Pulp, even in the ebook era
- Just Another Beautiful Day In The Book Mines.
- Reconciling Data: Book Retail vs Book Publishing
- Dissecting Amazon
- Rethinking the box: What is a big-box bookstore worth?
- Business Analysis: Amazon, and Retail
- Bringing the Sexy Back.
- Words Exchanged for Dollars: 5 questions.
- Here, let me read that for you...
- E-Books and Readers: Price War, Betamax, Snake Oil, Razor Blades, and Apple Pie
- Two Nook Notes [updated]
- Say... funny thing I just noticed...
- Rethinking the Box: Selling Books in the Post-Book Era
- Rethinking the Box: Selling Books in the Post-Book Era ['Love' doesn't have an algorithm yet]
- E-books, retail, publishing: One More Time
- Rethinking the Box: linking to other people's stuff
- Rethinking the Box: Sales vs Service
- Rethinking the Box: The 4% solution.
- Borders, B&N, and Business [updated]
- Rethinking the Box: Tables and Chairs
- Rethinking the Box: Good Problems to Have.
- Rethinking the Box: The Multiple Paradoxes of Coffee Table Books.
- Rethinking the Box: Taking Stock.
- Found: MP3 Audiobook Downloads
- The Other Shoe: Borders partners with Indigo's Shortcovers for E-Books
- Same story, different perspective
- Rethinking the Box: Quick Update
- Rethinking the Box: 88 Lines about 44 Retail Considerations
- Rethinking the Box: Location, Location, Location... and will it play in Peoria?
- Rethinking the Box: Before you sign that lease.
- Rethinking the Box: Are We Talking About the Same Thing?
- Rethinking the Box: *Really* rethinking the box.
- Rethinking the Box: 7th Grade Algebra
- Rethinking the Box: The Eight Types of Bookseller
- Rethinking the Box: Motives
- Reconsidering: The One Hundred Thousand.
- Rethinking the Box -- Beating the Big Box: Five Case Studies.
- Rethinking the Box: Application and Practice
- Rethinking the Box: The Seven Types of Customer.
- The original title of this article was changed because it was a favourite of spammers
- Rethinking the Box: Books vs Comic Books
- Rethinking the Box.
- More Borders, and Matt's personal pipe dream.
- Borders Redux.
- 2007: in review
- Borders: the Crystal Ball Report
- Borders doesn’t care if you buy books online from them or not, apparently.
reviews (64)
- Google Reader Refugee
- BookNom.Net Book Review Summer Challenge
- MMF Appetizer: Three for Kids.
- Manhwa Moveable Feast: The Color of Earth
- A Commentary on the Manga Moveable Feast, and of course a review.
- A Year with Rosetta Stone -- Week 2*: Procrastination
- Rosetta Stone, Week 1: Install, and First Impressions
- Review: Shugo Chara, vol. 1
- Review: Genshiken, vol. 8
- Review: Errant Story, vol. 1
- Review: Stan Lee’s Amazing Marvel Universe
- Review: In the Starlight, vol. 1
- Review: Hayate the Combat Butler, vol. 2
- Review: Inubaka — Crazy for Dogs, vol. 1
- Short Form II: Player, Ninja, Baker, Agent
- Review: Suzuka, vol. 3
- Review: O-Parts Hunter, Vols. 1 & 2
- Review: To Terra… vol. 1
- Review: Roadsong, vols. 1 & 2
- Review: Because I’m the Goddess, Vols. 1 & 2
- Review: Read or Die, vols 2-4 (of 4)
- Review: Onegai Twins
- Review: Rose Hip Zero, Vol. 1
- Review: Read or Dream, vols 1 & 2
- Review: E’s, Vol. 1
- Review: Legend, Vol. 1
- Review: Tail of the Moon, Vols. 1 & 2
- Review: Enchanter, Vol. 1
- Review: Amazing Agent Luna, Vol. 1
- Review: Archlord, Vol. 1
- Review: Pantheon High 1
- Review: Hibiki’s Magic
- Review: 0/6 (zero six) Vols 1 & 2
- Review: Innocent W, Vols. 1 & 2
- Review: Elemental Gelade, Vols. 1 & 2
- Review: Snow, Vol. 1
- Review: Angel Cup, Vols. 1 & 2
- Review: Mushishi, Vol. 1
- Review: Utopia’s Avenger, Vol. 1
- Review: Suzuka, Vols. 1 & 2
- Review: Blank, Vol. 1
- Review: Yakitate!! Japan, Vols. 1 & 2
- Review: Kashimashi, Vol. 1
- Review: Phantom, Vol. 1
- Review: Train + Train, Vol. 1
- Short Form I: Kat, Paper, Robot, Harima
- Review: Hayate the Combat Butler, Vol. 1
- Review: Buddha, Vol. 1
- Review: The Dreaming, Vols. 1 & 2
- Review: Last Hope, Vol. 1
- Review: Return to Labyrinth, Vol. 1
- Review: Kat & Mouse, Vol. 1
- Review: Neon Genesis Evangelion — Angelic Days, Vol. 2
- Review: Welcome to the N.H.K., Vol. 1
- Review: Someday’s Dreamers - Spellbound, Vol. 1
- Review: Someday’s Dreamers, Vols. 1 & 2
- Review: My-HiME, Vol. 1
- Review: Recast, Vol. 1
- Review: By the Sword, Vol. 1
- Review: Air Gear, Vol. 2
- Review: Air Gear, Vol. 1
- Review: School Rumble, Vol. 1
- Review: Captain Nemo, Vol. 1
- Review: Read or Die, Vol. 1
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- Update your feeds.
- Never read the comments.
- Thank You, handy-shorthand-title, but we're moving on
- Status update: since I haven't posted to rocketbomber.com in a month
- Ah. Yes. A brief note.
- BookNom.Net Book Review Summer Challenge
- A New Start for Two Sites
- Two years in, and still trying to find my place.
- Stating some things explicitly:
- username "mynamewastaken" has already been taken.
- Multi-track Recording. (a commentary on the charts, with an end-of-year thing tossed in as an afterthought)
- Notice:
- *^$%#` spammers.
- What's new with the Graphic Novel charts.
- This isn't a tech blog, either: Today's distraction is the Dell Mini 10
- An advisory to commentors. (not all, not most, just some)
- Once more, and then I'm moving on.
- About the Charts
- And stuff like this is Reason One that I need a new laptop.
- Hi Mom.
- minor delays.
- Update:
- There is only one of Me, and tonight, he needs some sleep.
- Death and Rebirth (no, not that one) Revisited
- [*expletive*] - so now I have to 'splain...
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- Everything old is new again, if you wait long enough, and we're talking about dance videos.
- So here's what I think about a proposed minimum wage increase
- Internet Anchorites
- Rocket Bomber Special: 2012 Holiday Gift Guide!
- Mind the Gap
- Price Tags. Opportunity Cost.
- An Elegy Sung by a Mourner Riding the Bookstore Viking Ship, Already Set Ablaze
- Self-awareness
- Good Night, Little Evil
- Third of Three Rants (for now) on the New Realities of Bookselling.
- The Second of what is apparently now at least three rants on Bookselling
- First of Two Rants on the New Realities of Bookselling
- I Hate Stu Levy
- A New Start for Two Sites
- PR Wonks Note: I believe in "value added" link-blogging.
- Off Topic: My Favourite Salad Recipe
- Off Topic: Debt Reform
- Just sayin'
- Just Another Beautiful Day In The Book Mines.
- Here, let me start a rumour... [UPDATED]
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- COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC: Health Care
- An advisory to commentors. (not all, not most, just some)
- minor delays.
- Wait... what?
- And Again.
- OEL, again (and again, and again, and...)
- Shortlist: 5 Reasons...
- Aside:
- Found: Tintin/Dragonball Crossover.
- There is only one of Me, and tonight, he needs some sleep.
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- Showing up late to the great Manga/Anime/Scan/Fansub/P2P debate...
- Cash_for_Robot
- Let me log this one for the record.
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