MangaBlogCast is up!

Posted on March 27, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

Head on over to MangaCast for the latest MangaBlogCast, our quick-and-easy digest of the week’s manga news, distilled from the MangaBlog and presented by Jack Tse. Liner notes after the cut.

Hard times for BeBeautiful
Libre home page
MangaCast’s summary
Simon Jones offers his two cents, with backup in comments from Ed Chavez
Bonus link: Yaoi Suki sums up all the known facts, with a timeline

Charts time
Diamond sales numbers
Top 100 GNs for February
USA Today top 150 books

Retail therapy
Borders posts $73.6 million loss
Changes in strategy result
Borders readers notice bigger GN sections

Digital Distribution Update
Gentosha to release online manga in 7 languages
Manga magazine for cell phones

Manga for fun or profit

About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Comic Book Resources, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and Robot 6. She also edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
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