Forum - View topicNEWS: New York Times Manga Best Seller List, February 22-28
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Charred Knight
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To bad this wasn't released years earlier, but it will be interesting to see if Fullmetal Alchemist sales picks up with the new series.
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Agent355
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I love The New York Times, and a graphic novel list is a great addition to the paper. As far as I know, they are the only American newspaper that actually serializes graphic novel pages in its Sunday magazine, despite their long-time stance against having a regular "Sunday comics" section.
This is a recognition that graphic novels and manga should be viewed as legitimate literature. I hope they start publishing this list in their Sunday Book Section, too. This almost makes up for the time they separated children's books from their regular fiction list just to take Harry Potter off the top ten. Almost. 
Another point: Perspective, people! Sales are often greater right after a book comes out. I would be surprised if Fruits Basket didn't show up on the list after the last volume is released. P.S. Woo-hoo for MPD Psycho!! I hope having an Eiji Otsuka book on there means a healthy outlook for Karasugi Corpse Delivery Service. 
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Pirkaf
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It's really exciting to see Eden on that list. Good to see also MPD-Psycho, although I personally don't like that series (I prefer Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service). And I chuckle everytime I see hateful comments about Naruto from "grown-up" manga lovers. Naruto is popular because it's a damn good manga. Live with it.
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hikaru004
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Actually, I thought it would be awsome to see Naruto totally dominating the NY Times list. That would be a crowning achievement to have all 10 slots. 8/10 is still really great. Congrats VIZ.
Now if VIZ would expend a similar marketing energy to Bleach, it hopefully could get up there too. |
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sainta
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Wow, a volume of Naruto has been 19 times in this list? Vampire Knight also appears to be selling great
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Ulinox
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What I'd like to see is a number of copies sold. This list provides very little information compared to Oricon charts from Japan.
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RestLessone
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Bookscan operates like that, though they are usually only available for companies that pay to see them. However, the Tilting at Windmills segment on Comic Book Resources provides some Bookscan numbers for comics in general every year (since 2003!). http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=30752 |
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littlegreenwolf
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The NYT Best Seller list, though a good indication of what's popular in books, isn't really "accurate" in numbers of actual books sold. The NYT gets their information from a weekly "survey" where bookseller opt into sending the NYTs a list of the ISBNs they sold for the past week. Book sellers are not required to send in the information of their sales, but a lot opt in because there are some benefits.
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TsukasaElkKite
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Cyclone1993
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Why does the article link to this talkback?
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sainta
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Wow, somebody forgot to take the pills today |
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jr240483
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[/b]and fans stop going to those illegal manga fan sites will also help too.[/b] though once naruto and bleach ends , one piece will be taking over the reigns. that or attack of titan. though not now considering how giddy the fans are for vol 64.especially those naruhina fanatics. though the cover is kinda misleading to say the least. |
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Cyclone1993
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The talkback threads got mixed up. This thread is about 5 years old, back when they were releasing Naruto all over the place.
Anyway, for the actual list, I'm still happy to see Monster Musume on there! I'm glad it's selling so well! |
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Relairknight
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That's so awesome that Watamote is on there. I have never felt so sorry for a character in my life, Tomoko is just so hopelessly pitiful...and yet hilarious at the same time. Why they changed the title to be 57 words long I'll never understand though.
I bet it links to this old talkback on purpose, since someone was all omg why have this list, naruto fans are going to grow up and stop reading it. Well look who's still on top of the list 5 years later?
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lys
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The extravagantly long title is a translation of the original, which is "Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui!" A translation of the abbreviated title would be something like "IPop." |
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