September 29, 2006
ICv2.com: Bookstore Sales Overview

The comics business news and analysis site
takes a broad look at the current status of selling comics material in bookstores. Manga is still king, particularly the top series, but there's an interesting line of analysis that more traditional North American comics publishers are starting to see greater gains in that market with a variety of material. It kind of struck me that Joss Whedon's
Astonishing X-Men series was one of those cited as seeing some sales improvement, as that indicates a pretty savvy customer, or at least one who is willing to make very specific distinctions:
this creator doing
this series in
this franchise, and I had never thought of bookstores as a place where that kind of reader shopped.
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