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January 26, 2007


How Wal-Mart Sold Explicit Manga

By carrying through its web site information from a major book wholesaler that draws on the full catalog of Diamond Distribution, among others, Diamond officials inform ICv2.com.

The availability of the titles had briefly caused one of those news stories that resembles people running around with their hands in the air on the deck of a burning ship. It's a concern because of the possibility of negative publicity for the strong-selling genre, the possibility that the reportage on such negative publicity would suck and mis-characterize the content and audience of those books, and because it reveals a system through which retailers can carry comics and other material on-line in a kind of half-assed fashion without knowing, or endorsing, what they're carrying, which might be problematic for some publishers.
 
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