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December 21, 2004


2004 BD Sales Report

The critics association ACBD and their secretary general Gilles Ratier have one-upped their endlessly snarky and bickering-among-themselves American cousins by releasing their fascinating and concise sales report on the state of the French-speaking comics market. You should read as good a summary as you can find, or grab it for translation, but the interesting factoids include:
* 3070 titles published in 2004, an increase of 21.5 percent over the 2526 released in 2003.

* 2120 featured original content, 610 were collections of previously published material, 254 were humor/illustration.

* 754 were manga or manwha

* 207 Publishers

There's a ton more, and I don't want to merely swipe their hard-won info as released to French news sites. You should definitely check the information out.
 
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