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JP boys’ comics demographics, 2007

Not much text here, just the charts.

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US manga sales, 2007

 My last post got the attention of someone who, in passing, mentioned The Beat; taking a moment to check it out, I happened upon a link to Bookscan numbers for 2007, which struck me as a great topic.

* 192 titles sold over 10,000 copies

* 572 of the top 750 GNs for 2007 were manga or sold as (28 of which domestically-produced,) sales gross $61.5 million on 6.8 million units on these titles alone.

* 338 titles for Viz, for $39.0 million; 144 titles for TP, for $15.0 million; 44 titles for Del Rey, for $4.8 million; 13 titles for Dark Horse, for $1.1 million; 7 titles for ADV Books, for $440k; 5 titles for Brocolli, for $275k

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