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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