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March 30, 2015
Aer.io Retail Platform: First Thoughts
March 29, 2015
Test Post for an Aer.io Bookstore
November 12, 2014
Hardwired for Stories
October 28, 2014
Home repair and book production
October 27, 2014
Links and Thoughts 37: 27 October 2014
October 24, 2014
Amazon's Monopoly isn't Books.
October 14, 2014
Links and Thoughts 36: 14 October 2014
October 13, 2014
Amazon Healthcare
Links and Thoughts 35: 13 October 2014
October 12, 2014
Gundam Reference
October 10, 2014
Links and Thoughts 34: 10 October 2014
October 2, 2014
Kitchen Journal
October 1, 2014
Links and Thoughts 33: 1 October 2014
September 8, 2014
A Secret History of the Paperback
August 28, 2014
Making Books
July 29, 2014
Links and Resources for Opening a Bookstore
July 16, 2014
Links and Thoughts 32: 16 July 2014
July 10, 2014
Links and Thoughts 31: 10 July 2014
July 7, 2014
Links and Thoughts 30: 7 July 2014
July 6, 2014
Professor Henry Rollins
June 29, 2014
Metal.
June 28, 2014
Links and Thoughts 29: 28 June 2014
June 26, 2014
Links and Thoughts 28: 26 June 2014
June 23, 2014
Links and Thoughts 27: 23 June 2014
June 17, 2014
Links and Thoughts 26: 18 June 2014
June 16, 2014
Dhol and Bagpipe
Links and Thoughts 25: 16 June 2014
June 11, 2014
Links and Thoughts 24: 11 June 2014
June 10, 2014
Links and Thoughts 23: 10 June 2014
June 7, 2014
Links and Thoughts 22: 7 June 2014
June 6, 2014
Punk Rock Friday Night
Links and Thoughts 21: 6 June 2014
June 5, 2014
Links and Thoughts 20: 5 June 2014
June 3, 2014
Links and Thoughts 19: 4 June 2014
May 30, 2014
Books are different, and special.
Links and Thoughts 18: 30 May 2014
May 29, 2014
Links and Thoughts 17: 29 May 2014
May 28, 2014
A Once-in-a-Century Opportunity to Re-invent Publishing, and Books
May 26, 2014
Amazon's Generosity
Links and Thoughts 16: 26 May 2014
May 25, 2014
The Wrecking Crew
Links and Thoughts 15: 25 May 2014
May 23, 2014
Quick Webcomics Reviews - Megan Kearney's Beauty and The Beast
Links and Thoughts 14: 23 May 2014
May 22, 2014
Links and Thoughts 13: 22 May 2014
May 21, 2014
Quick Webcomics Reviews - NPC: Non-Player Character
Links and Thoughts 12: 21 May 2014
May 20, 2014
Gamble & Huff, MFSB, and Philadelphia International Records
Links and Thoughts 11: 20 May 2014
May 17, 2014
Links and Thoughts 10: 17 May 2014
May 16, 2014
Links and Thoughts 9: 16 May 2014
May 15, 2014
Links and Thoughts 8: 15 May 2014
May 14, 2014
The Nashville A-Team, and the "Nashville Sound"
Links and Thoughts 7: 14 May 2014
May 13, 2014
Links and Thoughts 6: 13 May 2014
May 12, 2014
Links and Thoughts 5: 12 May 2014
May 11, 2014
Links and Thoughts 4: 11 May 2014
The Memphis Boys
May 10, 2014
Content Laundering
Links and Thoughts 3: 10 May 2014
May 9, 2014
Links and Thoughts (LnT) 2: 9 May 2014
May 8, 2014
Links and Thoughts (LnT) 1: 8 May 2014
May 4, 2014
The Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra
April 30, 2014
A Point of Departure; a Song Holiday in Europe
April 23, 2014
As certain as Death, Taxes, and 2-day prime shipping
April 20, 2014
I wonder if the historical model I should be researching is RCA, not Pocket Books?
April 2, 2014
Don't Stop... Be-lieee-vin'...
March 30, 2014
Motown, Stax, and Muscle Shoals
March 27, 2014
"What sort of show was it, for people that didn't go?"
New York Times reports 17-year-old "news"
March 23, 2014
Because so many 50th Anniversary specials will be coming up: Getting a handle on the 1960s
March 9, 2014
Jazz is a performance art.
March 6, 2014
"By the way, which one's Pink?"
March 2, 2014
The Real Story is better than the Movie, and it was a pretty good movie
March 1, 2014
Amazon, the Book Utility Company
February 28, 2014
B&N's Nook as differentiator
February 27, 2014
How to Build a Better Block
Donald Fagan, Jazz Piano
February 25, 2014
The Fallacy, and the Truth, of "Big Publishing"
February 23, 2014
Post-instrument Music
February 20, 2014
"Do you miss being a bookseller?"
February 18, 2014
Average words for average people
February 16, 2014
The Electronic Sound
February 13, 2014
The Long, Long Tail
February 11, 2014
Forbes: Please Hire Someone Who Understands Books, or Math, or Both.
February 10, 2014
Loose ends.
January 29, 2014
Is Staffing Up the Only Way Personal Blogs Will Survive?
Kickstarter ground rules.
A return to the Great Good Place.
January 27, 2014
One blogger was harmed in the making of this post.
January 26, 2014
Marketing gimmicks, scams, and psychology
January 24, 2014
In the can.
January 22, 2014
This one goes out to my fans.
January 17, 2014
War for content (and viewers) opens up on new front
January 13, 2014
Ebook sales projection, 4th update
January 12, 2014
Google Ngram "American Dream"
January 1, 2014
Is World Building a Writer's Disease or a *Necessary* Waste of Time?
December 26, 2013
"How can Barnes & Noble compete in 2014 and beyond?"
Under the Dome: Authors and "Publishers" in Kindlespace
December 23, 2013
Suggestions for the Long Winter Evenings ahead
December 20, 2013
Finding the narrative: Links for 20 December 2013
December 9, 2013
"We must be able to show progress even where we are unable to show perfection."
Sending the message without posting a sign.
December 7, 2013
I'd go so far as to say it's not Culture War, but instead a cultural migration
December 4, 2013
Universities are good for Cities.
December 2, 2013
Publishing and Payments, recap and redux
November 29, 2013
Rocket Bomber Special: 2013 Holiday Gift Guide!
November 27, 2013
Transit isn't bad, just unpopular
More from Wired : Silicon Valley Isn’t a Meritocracy. And It’s Dangerous to Hero-Worship Entrepreneurs
The One And Only? Silicon Valley has a lot of advantages, but is also building a mythology about itself.
The "Bookselling Brain" theory, at Futurebook
November 25, 2013
A rare batch: books and publishing round-up for 25 November.
November 21, 2013
I'm mesmerized by that diagram. Urban planning as mandala for meditation.
November 19, 2013
Engines of Sprawl. Evolution of the symbol that once embodied American Freedom.
"The Potential for Multiple Dividends in America"
Minimum odds and ends
November 18, 2013
"Places where creative people meet and exchange ideas"
Craft beer reintroduces some science into the process, too.
The Core of Amazon is not the website, but the warehouse
November 11, 2013
Downtown versus
E- versus Print? Burgers and Steak.
November 10, 2013
A Little Silicon in Every City
Being an 'object lesson' shouldn't be a point of pride.
November 8, 2013
Aw snap.
A willful blindness.
This is not an invitation for everyone to start sending me unsolicited PR about Kickstarter projects
November 7, 2013
Convention Space Critique: Otakon is getting a lot of things right
Are there weaknesses in Amazon's armor?
November 6, 2013
Yes, Cleveland.
November 5, 2013
Chicago looking to "double" tech sector.
The Making of a Book, 1925
Sidelines, Small-batch Sales, Sharing
The Kludgeocracy
D.C.'s Growing Knowledge-Based Economy
November 3, 2013
The New Urban Campus
November 1, 2013
Daylight Savings
October 29, 2013
Cell phone stops bullets
29 October 2013: Good Morning
October 28, 2013
Does architecture have an ethical responsibility to the public?
Fire-Eaters
28 Oct 2013: Good Morning
October 27, 2013
Born and Raised on the Wrong Side of the Tracks
Are we still talking about this? Yes. Yes, we are:
Pricing Models for entertainment.
"In many ways, Empire Strikes Back is the movie that invents the Star Wars universe."
Why not?
October 17, 2013
Focus, Passion, Knowledge, Application - and local applications
October 8, 2013
Rate of Change
September 22, 2013
The Package Tour: France, 1789
September 6, 2013
To date, no one has built an actual 'lifestyle shopping destination' yet because they keep looking at the wrong end of retail.
September 2, 2013
Monuments of Imagination
August 30, 2013
100 Years Ago - Have it shipped direct and save 70 percent off new fiction!
August 29, 2013
93 Years Ago: A well-fitted Book Shop.
August 28, 2013
125 Years Ago: A Letter to the Editor
August 27, 2013
35 Years Ago: when one third of all hardcover books were sold in New York City alone.
August 18, 2013
Last Week on Twitter, the more politics than usual version.
August 16, 2013
Congressman Lewis and "March, Book 1" Book Signing, Saturday 17 August 2013
August 14, 2013
The PC may seem dead, but in fact it is just evolving.
August 11, 2013
Last week on twitter, multiple fails
August 4, 2013
This Week on Twitter, the just the links edition.
July 30, 2013
An Amazon Rant turned into something else entirely: College Bookstores, Warehouse Jobs, And The Glories of Inefficiency
July 28, 2013
This Week on Twitter, the Mall Grant College Act of 2014
July 26, 2013
Market Maturity.
July 22, 2013
The Future of The Book
July 21, 2013
This Week On Twitter, An Origin Story
July 19, 2013
Book Farms
July 17, 2013
A Different Analogy.
July 12, 2013
Bookselling: Not Dead Yet.
July 2, 2013
The Wake
June 26, 2013
Some thoughts on Amazon's Breakthrough Novel program.
May 30, 2013
The New Pulp
May 8, 2013
Let's Talk About The Business, Then.
April 13, 2013
Ebook Sales Update, 2012 final.
April 9, 2013
Google Reader Refugee
April 8, 2013
I'll leave the amount of gloating and "I told you so" I should be doing right now as an exercise for the student.
April 4, 2013
Arguing against Amazon and for publishers on the one side, arguing for web self-publishing and against Amazon on the other.
March 30, 2013
Sunday Suppers: Whole Damn Chickens
March 20, 2013
Amazon: State of the Art for 1913
March 15, 2013
US Patent Number One
March 13, 2013
Update your feeds.
March 8, 2013
Actually, My Phone Sucks - That Said:
March 6, 2013
Org Chart
Never read the comments.
March 2, 2013
Everything old is new again, if you wait long enough, and we're talking about dance videos.
February 13, 2013
So here's what I think about a proposed minimum wage increase
January 30, 2013
Internet Anchorites
December 17, 2012
Rocket Bomber Special: 2012 Holiday Gift Guide!
December 12, 2012
Ebook sales projection, 2012, second update.
November 26, 2012
Thank YOU, everyone, for participating in the November 2012 Thankful Manga Feast
November 24, 2012
Rest, and Reflection
November 23, 2012
A Thankful Manga Feast: Friday Roundup
November 22, 2012
A Thankful Manga Feast: Thursday Roundup
A Thankful MMF Daily Diary: Seldom Has So Much Been Owed by So Many to So Few
November 21, 2012
A Thankful Manga Feast: Wednesday Roundup
A Thankful MMF Daily Diary: Voyage of Discovery
November 15, 2012
Call For Participation, The November 2012 MMF: A Thankful Manga Feast
November 11, 2012
Sunday Soups #3: Angry Birds.
November 8, 2012
Thank You, handy-shorthand-title, but we're moving on
October 12, 2012
Mind the Gap
October 7, 2012
Sunday Soups #2: no recipe this week. Frozen, Mistakes, Methods, & Experiments
September 24, 2012
Making it rain.
September 23, 2012
Sunday Soups: #1 - Bean & Bacon Soup
August 30, 2012
Ebook sales projection, 2012 edition
August 25, 2012
A new business model, growing beyond the Big Box Bookstore
August 14, 2012
Stop adopting orphans.
July 2, 2012
Beyond the Big Box
July 1, 2012
Why the Big Box Bookstore?
April 9, 2012
Amazon is a soul sucking leech on the book business.
February 27, 2012
Price Tags. Opportunity Cost.
January 7, 2012
Nook speculation at this early stage is dangerous, and likely useless
January 5, 2012
A life filled with Books
December 29, 2011
An Elegy Sung by a Mourner Riding the Bookstore Viking Ship, Already Set Ablaze
November 28, 2011
Rocket Bomber Special: 2011 Holiday Gift Guide!
November 18, 2011
Status update: since I haven't posted to rocketbomber.com in a month
October 20, 2011
A statement on Digital Bookstores, in 5 tweets.
October 7, 2011
Big Companies Are Fun To Work For
October 2, 2011
Wanderlust, The End of Wanderlust, and Wanderlust
September 26, 2011
The Age of Industrial Bookselling, 1931-2011
September 24, 2011
Dead Air
September 23, 2011
No, the manga bestsellers aren't running late again...
September 21, 2011
Mea Culpa - apparently not everyone has the same Local Bookstore
September 17, 2011
Set your alarms now: Tokyopop sale at B&N 9/19, 9AM local time.
September 11, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 37
September 9, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 36
September 6, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 35
September 5, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 34
September 1, 2011
So nice to be drowning in data once again.
August 20, 2011
Me vs ICv2 (not that there's a competition or anything)
Another index to a mess of indices: Spring 2011 Manga Charts
2011 Q2 Spring Cumulative Manga Bestseller Chart
August 15, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 33
August 8, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 32
August 5, 2011
Engines of Industry
August 1, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 31
July 25, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 30
July 18, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 29
July 17, 2011
Ah. Yes. A brief note.
July 11, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 28
July 10, 2011
Self-awareness
July 7, 2011
Here is your handy catch-up post for the charts so far
2011 Q1 Winter Cumulative Manga Bestseller Chart
July 4, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 27
June 27, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 26
June 26, 2011
Rethinking the Box: The Craziest Idea Yet.
June 24, 2011
Ebooks, predictions, math that lies.
June 22, 2011
Good Night, Little Evil
June 21, 2011
Numbers and Perspective for B&N's AR
June 20, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 25
Third of Three Rants (for now) on the New Realities of Bookselling.
June 19, 2011
The Second of what is apparently now at least three rants on Bookselling
June 17, 2011
First of Two Rants on the New Realities of Bookselling
June 13, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 24
June 6, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 23
June 1, 2011
Amazon and Taxing My Patience
May 30, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 22
May 29, 2011
Reader's Poll Re: tracking of online sales
May 27, 2011
Cheaters Prosper
May 25, 2011
Bookstores and Bookselling in Graphs, 1992 to 2010, with some other stuff
May 23, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 21
May 18, 2011
BookNom.Net Book Review Summer Challenge
May 17, 2011
Perfectly boring little post, nothing to see here, move along...
May 16, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 20
May 13, 2011
Amazonification
May 11, 2011
LotR Extended Cuts in Theaters, coming June
May 10, 2011
Books are not Music
May 9, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 19
Bank On It
May 2, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 18
April 27, 2011
Taking the piss out of e-book propaganda.
April 25, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 17
April 23, 2011
Illustrated Empire: Head Count
April 18, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 16
April 17, 2011
I Hate Stu Levy
Illustrated Empire: Own the Shop
April 15, 2011
Illustrated Empire: Contractual Obligations
April 11, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 15
April 4, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 14
April 3, 2011
Can we talk about reasonable copyrights?
March 28, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 13
March 21, 2011
The more things change...
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 12
March 14, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 11
March 10, 2011
Out of Stock
March 9, 2011
Agora and Marketplace
March 6, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 10
The Local
March 1, 2011
Teens with Cash.
February 27, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 9
February 26, 2011
A New Start for Two Sites
February 20, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 8
February 18, 2011
Books Are Not Retail
February 13, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 7
One more year, one more gnarly mess of online sales data and another brave attempt to de-tangle it.
February 12, 2011
2010 Q4 Autumn Cumulative Manga Bestseller Chart
2010 Q3 Summer Cumulative Manga Bestseller Chart
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 1
Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 52
Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 51
February 11, 2011
Borders Death Watch
February 7, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 6
February 1, 2011
Breaking: rumours on Borders bankruptcy
January 31, 2011
Rethinking the Box: The Unique Experience [Case Study 5 of 5]
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 5
January 24, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 4
January 21, 2011
Hell of a way to run a railroad.
January 18, 2011
PR Wonks Note: I believe in "value added" link-blogging.
January 17, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 3
New Manga, 18 Jan 2011
January 16, 2011
Kana 01: a note on pronunciation - and hiragana あ, katakana ア
January 10, 2011
Gadgets & Numbers, Comics & Apps
Manga 500 Rankings: 2011, Week 2
January 9, 2011
New Manga, 10 Jan 2011
January 5, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 50
January 2, 2011
New Manga, 3 Jan 2011
January 1, 2011
Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 49
December 30, 2010
Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 48
December 28, 2010
Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 47
December 27, 2010
Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 46
Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 45
December 26, 2010
Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 44
Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 43
December 25, 2010
Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 42
Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 41
December 24, 2010
Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 40
Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 39
December 23, 2010
Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 38
December 12, 2010
Off Topic: My Favourite Salad Recipe
December 4, 2010
Off Topic: Debt Reform
November 11, 2010
The New B&N Nook Color
November 8, 2010
Unique Bookstore Experiences: The Last Picture Show [case study 4 of 5]
November 4, 2010
Unique Bookstore Experiences: The Reference Desk [case study 3 of 5]
Unique Bookstore Experiences: Living Memory [case study 2 of 5]
Unique Bookstore Experiences: Books & Brews [case study 1 of 5]
November 2, 2010
Unique Experiences: An introduction, & the first of five case studies
October 25, 2010
Just sayin'
October 23, 2010
The Enduring Appeal of Cheap Pulp, even in the ebook era
October 15, 2010
A humble attempt to rein in some of the more, *exuberant*, e-book predictions.
October 9, 2010
Just Another Beautiful Day In The Book Mines.
October 6, 2010
Reconciling Data: Book Retail vs Book Publishing
September 29, 2010
Del Rey Manga Freeze?
September 27, 2010
The brothers McDonald, Mr. Barnes, & Mr. Noble.
September 23, 2010
Here, let me start a rumour... [UPDATED]
September 21, 2010
Formats: A Historical Perspective
September 20, 2010
Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 37
September 12, 2010
Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 36
September 6, 2010
The Big Picture on Publishing, and a Primer on the Emerging Format War
September 5, 2010
Dissecting Amazon
September 4, 2010
Yotsuba & Charlie, Yotsuba & Calvin, Yotsuba & Bugs, Yotsuba & South Park, Yotsuba & Harry, Yotsuba & Parents.
September 2, 2010
Breakout: Dark Horse
September 1, 2010
Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 35
August 30, 2010
MMF Appetizer: Three for Kids.
August 28, 2010
Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 34
August 25, 2010
Rethinking the box: What is a big-box bookstore worth?
August 20, 2010
Business Analysis: Amazon, and Retail
August 17, 2010
Graphic vs Novel vs Comic
Breakout: Yen Press
August 16, 2010
Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 33
August 12, 2010
Breakout: Global Manga [from the 8 Aug charts]
Breakout: Manhwa [from the 8 Aug charts]
Breakout: Boys Love/Yaoi [from the 8 Aug charts]
August 10, 2010
Breakout: Viz Signature/Sig Ikki et al.
Manga 500 Rankings: 2008, Week 32
August 7, 2010
Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 31
August 6, 2010
Bringing the Sexy Back.
August 5, 2010
Words Exchanged for Dollars: 5 questions.
August 3, 2010
Here, let me read that for you...
July 30, 2010
Breakout: One Piece
July 28, 2010
Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 30
July 27, 2010
While the e-book market is going to explode...
July 25, 2010
Either You Are With Us Or Against Us
July 23, 2010
Scanlation and the Prisoners' Dilemma
July 21, 2010
Business Analysis: Hey, you know what? We Sell Books.
July 20, 2010
Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 29
July 19, 2010
I'd just like to point out:
About the Charts
About the Math
Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 28
July 18, 2010
Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 27
Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, week 26
Manga 500 Rankings: 2010, Week 25
July 6, 2010
A Manga Database. For you to Use, Reuse, Remix, and Enjoy.
June 28, 2010
Two years in, and still trying to find my place.
June 27, 2010
Manhwa Moveable Feast: The Color of Earth
June 25, 2010
Found: Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential
June 21, 2010
E-Books and Readers: Price War, Betamax, Snake Oil, Razor Blades, and Apple Pie
Two Nook Notes [updated]
June 17, 2010
Caption this photo:
June 16, 2010
Say... funny thing I just noticed...
June 10, 2010
Rethinking the Box: Selling Books in the Post-Book Era
June 9, 2010
Rethinking the Box: Selling Books in the Post-Book Era ['Love' doesn't have an algorithm yet]
June 7, 2010
E-books, retail, publishing: One More Time
Geek Biz Report, week ending 6 June 2010
June 4, 2010
Publishing Buggywhips
May 31, 2010
Stating some things explicitly:
May 29, 2010
Geek Biz Report, week ending 30 May 2010
May 23, 2010
Geek Biz Report, week ending 23 May 2010
May 22, 2010
I've more optimism than the situation deserves.
May 19, 2010
CMX versus Plastic [alas]
May 15, 2010
Geek Biz Report, week ending 16 May 2010
May 9, 2010
Rethinking the Box: linking to other people's stuff
Geek Biz Report, week ending 9 May 2010. [Updated]
May 6, 2010
You got $20 this week? I've a recommendation.
May 3, 2010
Rocket Bomber Special: Ten Levels of Fandom
May 1, 2010
Geek Biz Report: week ending 2 May 2010
April 30, 2010
Manga Moveable Feast: Mushishi, an overview
April 28, 2010
Free Comic Book Day: May Day Revolt.
April 25, 2010
Rethinking the Box: Sales vs Service
April 24, 2010
Geek Biz Report: week ending 25 April 2010
April 19, 2010
RBGSX update 1: sense of scale, sense of history.
April 18, 2010
Geek Biz Report: week ending 18 April, 2010
About the new RB Geek Stock Index
April 13, 2010
Rethinking the Box: The 4% solution.
April 12, 2010
Fan Service?
Straw Poll: Rankings Formats
April 11, 2010
If I count all posts, this is "Kodansha VI"
April 7, 2010
Wizard World Americano
April 4, 2010
The iPad is merely incidental to the rest of the ongoing discussion.
April 1, 2010
Borders, B&N, and Business [updated]
March 29, 2010
Go. Read. Stephen Bissette on the New Comics Era.
March 27, 2010
Rethinking the Box: Tables and Chairs
March 22, 2010
Farewell, Emma.
Emma MMF: The Anime
Emma MMF: Daily Diary, Vols. 7 & 10
March 21, 2010
Emma MMF Daily Diary Special: The Emmaverse
Emma MMF: Michelle Smith
Emma MMF: Eva Volin & Robin Brenner
March 19, 2010
Emma MMF: Daily Diary, vol. 6
March 15, 2010
An Intermission: For want of a book.
March 13, 2010
Emma MMF: Lissa Pattillo
Emma MMF: Jason S. Yadao
March 12, 2010
Emma MMF: Daily Diary, vol. 5
March 11, 2010
Emma MMF: David Welsh pt. 2
Emma MMF: Brigid Alverson et al.
March 10, 2010
Emma MMF: Daily Diary, vol. 4
March 9, 2010
Emma MMF: Oh, and about that biplane...
Emma MMF: Katherine Dacey
Emma MMF: David Welsh
Emma MMF: Khursten Santos
March 8, 2010
Emma MMF: Daily Diary, vol. 3
Emma MMF: Rob McMonigal
Emma MMF: Johanna Draper Carlson
March 7, 2010
Emma MMF: Daily Diary, vol. 2
Emma MMF: Daily Diary, vol. 1
Emma MMF: Wilma Jandoc
March 6, 2010
Emma MMF: Garrett Albright
April MMF: Mushishi
Emma: About the Series
March 1, 2010
Recycling: Actually, yes, an accelerated release schedule is one of those things that will help manga sales.
February 27, 2010
Showing up late to the great Manga/Anime/Scan/Fansub/P2P debate...
February 26, 2010
Vote for the April Manga Moveable Feast.
February 23, 2010
Soliciting Nominations for the Third MMF
Announcing the Second Manga Moveable Feast
February 18, 2010
Rethinking the Box: Good Problems to Have.
February 16, 2010
Free Comic Books Day, 2010, part 1.
February 12, 2010
A Commentary on the Manga Moveable Feast, and of course a review.
February 11, 2010
7 Tips for Bloggers
February 6, 2010
Never ask advice from a blogger, Part II
Rethinking the Box: The Multiple Paradoxes of Coffee Table Books.
February 2, 2010
Cash_for_Robot
January 28, 2010
Apple's Mad Genius
Top Shelf Swedish Invasion
January 26, 2010
Heck, I'm willing to go on the record with this, damn the torpedoes.
7 Tips for Podcasting.
January 24, 2010
Spotlight: Andrews McMeel
Last Week's Poll Results: New Release & Preorder Reports
Graphic Novel Rankings: 2010, Week 2
January 22, 2010
Rethinking the Box: Taking Stock.
January 20, 2010
Good News/Bad News. Graphic Novel Clearance.
January 16, 2010
Let me log this one for the record.
January 15, 2010
Bringing Order to Chaos:
January 14, 2010
Ranking New Releases & Preorders, week ending 3 Jan '10
Graphic Novel Rankings: 2010, Week 1
January 13, 2010
Something Special: for @yaoipress and the 6 followers she was able to send my way.
January 12, 2010
Found: The Art of Osamu Tezuka, God of Manga
Found -- Manga Kamishibai: The Art of Japanese Paper Theater
January 7, 2010
Mmmm... new books... [*homeresquegargle*]
username "mynamewastaken" has already been taken.
Am I the only one...
Multi-track Recording. (a commentary on the charts, with an end-of-year thing tossed in as an afterthought)
January 4, 2010
Found: Brave Story.
December 31, 2009
Found: MP3 Audiobook Downloads
December 25, 2009
Graphic Novel Rankings: 2009, Week 37
December 20, 2009
Graphic Novel Rankings: 2009, Week 36
December 17, 2009
Graphic Novel Rankings: 2009, Week 35
December 16, 2009
Graphic Novel Rankings: 2009, Week 34
December 15, 2009
The Other Shoe: Borders partners with Indigo's Shortcovers for E-Books
December 2, 2009
18 Graphic Novels (plus 4 other books of note) currently available 'e'
November 26, 2009
Technical difficulties.
November 23, 2009
The Future is Now: 20 Graphic Novels currently available as e-books (part 1)
November 22, 2009
Same story, different perspective
November 17, 2009
Form, Content, Copies, Rights, and Plato
November 12, 2009
Never ask advice from a blogger.
November 10, 2009
Graphic Novel Rankings: 2009, Week 33
October 29, 2009
Not that they need me to encourage you to pile on...
October 25, 2009
Kind of like a public radio fund drive but with comics as incentives instead of tumblers and tote bags.
October 23, 2009
Graphic Novel Rankings: 2009, Week 32
October 18, 2009
Graphic Novel Rankings: 2009, Week 31
October 14, 2009
A special comment where I draw spurious and perhaps false parallels and analogies and yet still manage to make more sense than an office full of Alaskan Prosecutors
October 8, 2009
Rethinking the Box: Quick Update
October 5, 2009
Notice:
October 4, 2009
Rethinking the Box: 88 Lines about 44 Retail Considerations
October 2, 2009
I'll not only link, I'll steal his subject line: There Isn't One Bestseller List.
September 29, 2009
Can We Fix This?
September 28, 2009
A Year with Rosetta Stone -- Week 2*: Procrastination
September 26, 2009
I lost an entire night's productivity to this video.
September 25, 2009
Linking To: CrossGen Redux (& New Genesis?)
September 23, 2009
Rethinking the Box: Location, Location, Location... and will it play in Peoria?
September 16, 2009
Bach, Batman. Amadeus, Avengers. Sanity and Salvation in Numbers
September 15, 2009
Found: Miyazaki, Starting Point 1979-1996
September 10, 2009
Business is Booming 3: Our Worlds are not our own
September 5, 2009
Graphic Novel Rankings, 2009 Week 30
Correction: Graphic Novel Rankings, 2009 Week 30
September 3, 2009
Business is Booming 2: Kodansha Puzzles
September 2, 2009
*^$%#` spammers.
September 1, 2009
Business is Booming 1: ADV Transitions
August 30, 2009
For any endeavor, knowing the scope of the project is damn handy -- if not necessary
August 21, 2009
Found, and a suggestion: The Dark Age
August 19, 2009
linking to -- Project Rooftop: Look Sharp
August 18, 2009
Rosetta Stone, Week 1: Install, and First Impressions
August 15, 2009
Rethinking the Box: Before you sign that lease.
August 14, 2009
Found -- Usagi Yojimbo: Yokai
August 11, 2009
Found: Vermonia, vol 1
Marvel 70th: In Atlanta
August 9, 2009
26 Weeks with Rosetta Stone: Week Zero -- The Unboxing.
August 6, 2009
Rethinking the Box: Are We Talking About the Same Thing?
August 1, 2009
Addendum to the FAQ: under-the-hood changes to the charts
July 31, 2009
COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC: Health Care
July 27, 2009
Rethinking the Box: *Really* rethinking the box.
Comics 500, 2009 Week 29
July 23, 2009
What's new with the Graphic Novel charts.
July 15, 2009
Found: The State complete series box.
July 13, 2009
Rethinking the Box: 7th Grade Algebra
July 10, 2009
Found: Yokai Doctor vol 2.
July 7, 2009
This isn't a tech blog, either: Today's distraction is the Dell Mini 10
July 3, 2009
This isn't a link blog, part II
July 1, 2009
An advisory to commentors. (not all, not most, just some)
June 28, 2009
Rethinking the Box: The Eight Types of Bookseller
June 24, 2009
This isn't a link blog, part I
June 21, 2009
Rethinking the Box: Motives
June 17, 2009
Found: Fruits Basket vols 1-23 Box Set
and I know Cap's uniform is iconic, but what's the point of a dirt nap if there isn't a costume redesign?
June 16, 2009
Once more, and then I'm moving on.
June 14, 2009
Reconsidering: The One Hundred Thousand.
June 13, 2009
About the Charts
June 4, 2009
Rethinking the Box -- Beating the Big Box: Five Case Studies.
And stuff like this is Reason One that I need a new laptop.
June 3, 2009
Rethinking the Box: Application and Practice
June 1, 2009
Rethinking the Box: The Seven Types of Customer.
Found: Rough Guides
May 31, 2009
Found: 90 Classic Books for People in a Hurry
May 30, 2009
Hi Mom.
May 28, 2009
Handley Reaction.
May 27, 2009
Found: MySpace Dark Horse Presents.
An Editorial on the Charts
May 26, 2009
Graphic Novel Rankings, 2009 Week 21
Found: Zot! online preview
May 25, 2009
minor delays.
May 23, 2009
Am I the only person to notice this?
May 19, 2009
Placeholder: More Coming
Graphic Novel Rankings, 2009 Week 20
Graphic Novel Rankings, 2009 Week 19
May 14, 2009
Wait... what?
May 7, 2009
And Again.
May 5, 2009
Update:
OEL, again (and again, and again, and...)
May 3, 2009
Shortlist: 5 Reasons...
April 27, 2009
Graphic Novel Rankings, 2009 Week 15
April 17, 2009
Aside:
April 12, 2009
Can't Wipe the Smile Off My Face: Yotsuba&! found again!
April 10, 2009
The original title of this article was changed because it was a favourite of spammers
April 9, 2009
Rethinking the Box: Books vs Comic Books
April 8, 2009
Found: Tintin/Dragonball Crossover.
April 7, 2009
Oh... by the way...
Found: GA - Geijutsuka Art Design Class
April 6, 2009
Found: Flower of Life, vol 4.
April 5, 2009
Found: Henry V GN.
Found: Gakuen Prince vol 1
April 4, 2009
Manga 500, 2009 week 14
Found: Avalon Manga from Seven Seas
April 2, 2009
Found: (sort of) Dusk
March 29, 2009
There is only one of Me, and tonight, he needs some sleep.
March 27, 2009
Manga 500, 2009 week 13
March 25, 2009
Death and Rebirth (no, not that one) Revisited
March 22, 2009
[*expletive*] - so now I have to 'splain...
March 20, 2009
Correction:
Vampires overtake year-old-Shinigami; Everyone Should be Reading Fuyumi Ono (with a special note from me to DJ Milky); and, What a Difference a Week Makes.
Your Executive Summary and Index, Week Ending 15 March 2009
Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 15 March 2009
New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 15 March 2009
Manga 500, 2009 week 12
March 17, 2009
Your Executive Summary and Index, Week Ending 8 March 2009
Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 8 March 2009
New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 8 March 2009
Manga 500, 2009 week 11
March 11, 2009
Found: InVisible
March 10, 2009
I could begin and end this with "Dr. Manhattan's Meatpacking District" and my work here would be done.
March 7, 2009
Found: Dark Hunters vol 1 (2nd pass)
Application and Practice: Yes, I can do more than post long lists of titles.
Rankings Summary, week ending 1 March 2009
Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 1 March 2009
New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 1 March 2009
Manga 500, 2009 week 10
February 24, 2009
Rethinking the Box.
February 23, 2009
Rankings Summary, week ending 22 February 2009
Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 22 February 2009
New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 22 February 2009
Manga 500, 2009 week 9
February 22, 2009
Comparing Apples to Oranges: 2008 rankings redux
My Data is Your Data: 2008 Rankings
February 19, 2009
Rankings Summary, week ending 15 February 2009
Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 15 February 2009
New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 15 February 2009
Manga 500, 2009 week 8
February 12, 2009
Rankings Summary, week ending 8 February 2009
Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 8 February 2009
New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 8 February 2009
Manga 500, 2009 week 7
February 10, 2009
Found: The Onion has hired an Otaku
February 5, 2009
Email Newsletter
Rankings Summary, week ending 1 February 2009
Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 1 February 2009
New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 1 February 2009
Manga 500, 2009 week 6
February 3, 2009
Kodansha USA III
February 1, 2009
Rankings Summary, week ending 25 January 2009
Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 25 January 2009
New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 25 January 2009
Manga 500, 2009 week 5
January 30, 2009
2008 Rankings: and Blood+ may just be my Rosetta Stone
January 29, 2009
Found (sort of): Manga Cookbook, with goodies, and recommendations.
January 26, 2009
2008 Manga-related Prose Fiction Chart
2008 Non-Fiction Chart
January 24, 2009
2008: Publishers' Scorecard
2008 Charts: Naruto
2008 Charts: 2008 manga releases
Chart: Estimated Market Share, 2008
January 23, 2009
Rankings Summary, week ending 18 January 2009
Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 18 January 2009
New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 18 January 2009
January 22, 2009
Manga 500, 2009 week 4
January 20, 2009
Poll Results. Thank You, all 12 of you.
January 19, 2009
Late to the Party: Best of aught-eight, Wanted of aught-nine
January 17, 2009
Found: Sherrilyn Kenyon Manga
January 16, 2009
Found: Usagi Yojimbo Special
January 14, 2009
Rankings Summary, week ending 11 January 2009
Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 11 January 2009
New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 11 January 2009
Manga 500, 2009 Week 3
January 12, 2009
Found -- Video: Tezuka, Sabuda, and Reinhart.
Top Anime: Week Ending 11 Jan
January 10, 2009
Link: top 300 manga series.
January 8, 2009
Found: Gaba Kawa
Rewind: Top Manga of 2007
January 7, 2009
Found: Captain N
January 6, 2009
RE: the opinion poll. Rankings of Anime Online sales. Fair Warning.
Rankings Summary, week ending 4 January 2009
Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 4 January 2009
New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 4 January 2009
Manga 500, Vol 2 Week 2
January 5, 2009
Found: Edo Cats -- Tails of Old Tokyo
Teaser: week ending 4 Jan.
Found (updated): Yaoi Press Bundles
January 3, 2009
Found: AX
January 1, 2009
Found: Deux on Amazon
December 31, 2008
Rankings Summary, week ending 28 December 2008
Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 28 December 2008
New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 28 December 2008
Manga 500, Vol. 2 Week 1
Found: The Rough Guide to Manga
December 30, 2008
Found: VizBig editions from... Shojo Beat
December 29, 2008
Found: Lucky Star Manga
Found: Remote, vol 10
Teaser: Top Volumes and Series for week ending 28 Dec.
December 26, 2008
Found: Style School (Small S U.S. editions) vols. 3 & 4
December 25, 2008
Rankings Summary, week ending 21 December 2008
Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 21 December 2008
New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 21 December 2008
Manga 500, week 51
Found: Mechademia 3
December 23, 2008
Teaser: First Squeezed Charts, week ending 21 Dec.
Found: (and I swear this is the title) Tantric Stripfighter Trina
two ways about it: RSS
December 22, 2008
Found: Amazing Agent Luna vol 5
December 21, 2008
Found: The Tale of Genji
December 20, 2008
Found: Yaoi Gold
December 19, 2008
More Borders, and Matt's personal pipe dream.
Borders Redux.
December 16, 2008
Responses to Tom & Dave.
Found.
Found #1: Black Jack
Rankings Summary, week ending 14 December 2008
Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 14 December 2008
New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 14 December 2008
Manga 500, week 50
December 15, 2008
Oh my sweet lord Odin is that an actual sales number?
A Teaser: Quick top 25 for week ending 14 Dec.
December 8, 2008
Rankings Summary, week ending 16 November 2008
Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 16 November 2008
New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 16 November 2008
Manga 500, week 46
December 6, 2008
...and we're back.
November 15, 2008
Rankings Summary, week ending 9 November 2008
Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 9 November 2008
New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 9 November 2008
Manga 500, week 45
November 13, 2008
Shuffle, Fold, Bend, Spindle, Mutilate
Rankings Summary, week ending 2 November 2008
Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 2 November 2008
New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 2 November 2008
Manga 500, week 44
October 29, 2008
Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 26 October 2008
New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 26 October 2008
Rankings Summary, week ending 26 October 2008
Manga 500, week 43
October 23, 2008
Nothing to see here (yet)
October 21, 2008
'08 Summer Manga Rankings: By Publisher
'08 Summer Manga Rankings: Viz Tar Ball
October 20, 2008
'08 Summer Manga Rankings: Shakespeare!
'08 Summer Manga Rankings: Non-Fiction
'08 Summer Manga Rankings: Manga-associated Novels
'08 Summer Manga Rankings: Estimated Publisher Market Share, Take 2
October 18, 2008
'08 Summer Manga Rankings: Publishers' Scorecard
'08 Summer Manga Rankings: Estimated Publisher Market Share
'08 Summer Manga Rankings: Top 150 Series
My Data is Your Data: '08 Summer Manga Rankings
Info Dump: '08 Summer Manga Rankings
October 16, 2008
Rankings Summary, week ending 12 October 2008
Manga 500, week 41
October 8, 2008
An open letter to Messrs. Cthulhu and A. Nony Mouse, with a side note for Mr. Green and the internets.
Rankings Summary, week ending 5 October 2008
Manga 500, week 40
October 6, 2008
Checking in with Kodansha (and Cthulhu)
October 3, 2008
Rookie Mistakes
Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 28 September 2008
New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 28 September 2008
October 2, 2008
Rankings Summary, week ending 28 September 2008
Manga 500, week 39
September 24, 2008
Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 21 September 2008
New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 21 September 2008
September 23, 2008
Naruto is *over*. [updated!]
Rankings Summary, week ending 21 September 2008
Manga 500, week 38
September 19, 2008
AWA Update II
Anime Weekend Atlanta: quick intro, sketchy schedule, blogging all weekend
September 17, 2008
Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 14 September 2008
New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 14 September 2008
September 16, 2008
Rankings Summary, week ending 14 September 2008
Manga 500, week 37
September 10, 2008
Info Dump:
Emerging Trends Report, Week Ending 7 September
New Releases and Pre-orders, Week Ending 7 September
Rankings Summary, week ending 7 September 2008
Manga 500, week 36
September 3, 2008
New Releases Chart, August Final
Online Pre-orders, week ending 31 August
An as yet un-named special chart: new, new, *new* titles
September 1, 2008
Spotlight: Graphic-Sha and Japanime's Manga University
Rankings Summary, week ending 31 August 2008
Manga 500, week 35
August 31, 2008
Dragon*Con Saturday
August 30, 2008
Busy Busy Busy... Dragon*Con '08
August 27, 2008
New Releases Chart, August week 4
Online Pre-orders, week ending 24 August
August 25, 2008
I can't wait to see what search engines do with some of these quotes taken out of context.
August 24, 2008
Rankings Summary, week ending 24 August 2008
Manga 500, week 34
August 21, 2008
5by8 #28: Conditions on the Ground, and Your Weekend Homework Assignment
August 19, 2008
New Releases Chart, August week 3
Online Pre-orders, week ending 17 August
August 18, 2008
Running out of steam, Going Big, and novels - by request.
Rankings Summary, week ending 17 August 2008
Manga 500, week 33
August 16, 2008
Spotlight: Broccoli Books
Market Share Estimates, with extra ooma*
August 14, 2008
New Releases Chart, August week 2
Online Pre-orders, week ending 10 August
Rankings Summary, week ending 10 August 2008
Manga 500, Week 32
August 11, 2008
Down Time
August 7, 2008
Spotlight: DMP, DMP June, & 801
August 6, 2008
The Magic Number is 9, I am not a robot, the podcast is in fact forthcoming, and um... manga and rankings and junk.
New Releases Chart, August week 1
Online Pre-orders, week ending 3 August
August 5, 2008
Rankings Summary, week ending 3 Aug 2008
Manga Top 500, Week 31
August 1, 2008
attempted first podcast this evening; discoveries:
July 29, 2008
New Releases Chart, July Final
Online Pre-orders, week ending 28 July
July 28, 2008
Spotlight: Del Rey
NPR on SDCC
July 27, 2008
Online Gaming, Force Multipliers, Dice Rolls, and Magic Numbers
Rankings Summary, week ending 27 July 2008
Manga Top 500, Week 30
Have Fun Digging. (aka The illusionary dollars of layoffs and new media)
July 22, 2008
Ranking New Releases and Preorders, Week of 21 July
July 20, 2008
Spotlight: Dark Horse
Rankings Summary, week ending 20 July 2008
Manga Top 500, Week 29
July 14, 2008
Me, vs. ICv2
July 13, 2008
Spotlight: CMX
...and of course, as you know, I'm channeling a very special brand of insanity to even think of these online rankings to begin with.
Manga Top 500, Week 28
July 10, 2008
Spotlight: ADV Manga
July 9, 2008
Spotlight: Aurora Publishing
July 8, 2008
Categories, Classifications, and Comments
Manga Top 500, Week 27
July 6, 2008
Damn, more books to add to the teetering stacks on my nightstand...
July 3, 2008
Aside:
Credit where due:
July 2, 2008
I don't track publ-of-origin, so I can't post a Kodansha listing
Estimated Online Sales Rankings For the Week Ending 29 June 2008
July 1, 2008
Estimated Online Sales Rankings For the Week Ending 22 June 2008
About the Charts
I'll have my hat, with a side of crow, and some humble pie.
June 30, 2008
Abel, Madden on Sunday's "All Things Considered"
June 29, 2008
Staking my Claim
From Comicsnob to RocketBomber
Soft Launch
June 23, 2008
"So, Smart Guy, what in the heck am I supposed to do with that big honkin' list?"
The Backlist: Quarterly Manga Rankings, Spring '08
May 29, 2008
2007: in review
May 26, 2008
I have to write something, if only to see how it looks
March 29, 2008
Borders: the Crystal Ball Report
February 13, 2008
Borders doesn’t care if you buy books online from them or not, apparently.
September 14, 2007
5by8, #26: So what’s the target?
September 1, 2007
Five conversations about Dragon Con, while at Dragon Con
July 6, 2007
how about a top 40?
April 22, 2007
Review: Shugo Chara, vol. 1
April 16, 2007
5x8 #18: Ages of Fan IV
April 10, 2007
5x8 #17: The Ages of Fan III
April 3, 2007
5by8/On Anime: What are you going to watch this week?
April 2, 2007
5by8, #16: the Ages of Fan II
April 1, 2007
Manga Watch List: 1-7 April
March 30, 2007
Review: Genshiken, vol. 8
March 26, 2007
5by8, #15: The Ages of Fan (I)
March 25, 2007
Manga Watch List: 25-31 March
March 24, 2007
Review: Errant Story, vol. 1
March 21, 2007
5by8, #14: Acceleration
March 19, 2007
Manga Watch List, 18-24 March
March 17, 2007
Review: Stan Lee’s Amazing Marvel Universe
March 11, 2007
Manga Watch List: 11 March to 17 March, 2007
March 8, 2007
Review: In the Starlight, vol. 1
March 6, 2007
Review: Hayate the Combat Butler, vol. 2
March 5, 2007
5by8, #13: ...but is it art?
March 4, 2007
Manga Watch List: 4 March to 10 March
Review: Inubaka — Crazy for Dogs, vol. 1
March 1, 2007
Review: Air Gear, vol. 3
February 28, 2007
Short Form II: Player, Ninja, Baker, Agent
February 27, 2007
Review: Suzuka, vol. 3
February 26, 2007
5by8, #12: Manga. All the cool kids are doing it.
February 25, 2007
Manga Watch List: 25 February to 3 March
February 24, 2007
Review: O-Parts Hunter, Vols. 1 & 2
February 23, 2007
Review: To Terra… vol. 1
February 22, 2007
Review: Roadsong, vols. 1 & 2
February 21, 2007
Review: Because I’m the Goddess, Vols. 1 & 2
February 20, 2007
Review: Read or Die, vols 2-4 (of 4)
February 19, 2007
5by8, #11: Anime and Manga II
February 18, 2007
Manga Watch List: 18 February
February 17, 2007
Review: Onegai Twins
February 16, 2007
Review: Rose Hip Zero, Vol. 1
February 15, 2007
Review: Read or Dream, vols 1 & 2
February 14, 2007
Review: E’s, Vol. 1
February 13, 2007
Review: Legend, Vol. 1
February 12, 2007
5by8, #10: Getting Inside
February 11, 2007
Manga Watch List: 11 Feb to 17 Feb
February 10, 2007
Review: Tail of the Moon, Vols. 1 & 2
February 9, 2007
Review: Enchanter, Vol. 1
February 8, 2007
Review: Amazing Agent Luna, Vol. 1
February 7, 2007
Review: Archlord, Vol. 1
February 6, 2007
Review: Pantheon High 1
February 5, 2007
5by8, #9: Books vs. Comics vs. Magazines vs. Manga. Cage Match.
February 4, 2007
Manga Watch List: 4 Feb to 10 Feb
February 3, 2007
Review: Hibiki’s Magic
February 2, 2007
Review: 0/6 (zero six) Vols 1 & 2
February 1, 2007
Review: Innocent W, Vols. 1 & 2
January 31, 2007
Review: Elemental Gelade, Vols. 1 & 2
January 30, 2007
Review: Snow, Vol. 1
January 29, 2007
5by8, #8: Débuts, and Anthologies
January 28, 2007
Weekly Watch List (manga edition): 28 Jan to 3 Feb
January 27, 2007
Review: Angel Cup, Vols. 1 & 2
January 26, 2007
Review: Mushishi, Vol. 1
January 24, 2007
Review: Utopia’s Avenger, Vol. 1
January 23, 2007
Field Report: Scott McCloud Book Signing
Review: Suzuka, Vols. 1 & 2
January 22, 2007
5by8, #7: Attribution
January 21, 2007
Review: Blank, Vol. 1
January 20, 2007
Review: Yakitate!! Japan, Vols. 1 & 2
January 19, 2007
Review: Kashimashi, Vol. 1
January 18, 2007
Review: Phantom, Vol. 1
January 16, 2007
Review: Train + Train, Vol. 1
January 15, 2007
5by8, #6: Questionable Content
January 13, 2007
Short Form I: Kat, Paper, Robot, Harima
January 11, 2007
Review: Hayate the Combat Butler, Vol. 1
January 9, 2007
Review: Buddha, Vol. 1
January 8, 2007
5by8, #5: This coin has three sides.
January 6, 2007
Review: The Dreaming, Vols. 1 & 2
January 4, 2007
Review: Last Hope, Vol. 1
January 2, 2007
Review: Return to Labyrinth, Vol. 1
5by8, #4: Three Filters
December 29, 2006
Review: Kat & Mouse, Vol. 1
December 28, 2006
Review: Neon Genesis Evangelion — Angelic Days, Vol. 2
December 27, 2006
Review: Neon Genesis Evangelion — Angelic Days, Vol. 1
December 26, 2006
Review: Welcome to the N.H.K., Vol. 1
December 23, 2006
Review: Someday’s Dreamers - Spellbound, Vol. 1
December 21, 2006
Review: Someday’s Dreamers, Vols. 1 & 2
December 19, 2006
Review: My-HiME, Vol. 1
December 18, 2006
5by8, #2: Watching Anime, Reading Manga
December 16, 2006
Review: Recast, Vol. 1
December 14, 2006
Review: By the Sword, Vol. 1
December 12, 2006
Review: Air Gear, Vol. 2
December 11, 2006
Review: Air Gear, Vol. 1
5by8, #1: What is Manga?
December 9, 2006
Review: School Rumble, Vol. 1
December 7, 2006
Review: Captain Nemo, Vol. 1
December 5, 2006
Review: Read or Die, Vol. 1
5by8: Column Zero

Yes, all the links are broken.

On June 1, 2015 (after 6 years and 11 months) I needed to relaunch/restart this blog, or at least rekindle my interest in maintaining and updating it.

Rather than delete and discard the whole thing, I instead moved the blog -- database, cms, files, archives, and all -- to this subdomain. When you encounter broken links (and you will encounter broken links) just change the URL in the address bar from www.rocketbomber.com to archive.rocketbomber.com.

I know this is inconvenient, and for that I apologise. In addition to breaking tens of thousands of links, this also adversely affects the blog visibility on search engines -- but that, I'm willing to live with. Between the Wayback Machine at Archive.org and my own half-hearted preservation efforts (which you are currently reading) I feel nothing has been lost, though you may have to dig a bit harder for it.

As always, thank you for reading. Writing version 1.0 of Rocket Bomber was a blast. For those that would like to follow me on the 2.0 - I'll see you back on the main site.

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