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Market Share ReportDiamond Comic Distributers, Inc. has release it’s 2005 market share report. If you don’t know who Diamond Comic Distributers is, just know that almost every comic you’ve ever seen has passed through their hands before it got to you. Anyway, this report will give you a good idea of where your favorite brands (Del Rey. :D) stand with regard to actual dollar sales in the market. Of course, Marvel and DC lead the pack, but it’s interesting to see the manga companies starting to creep up in the ratings, and it should help to make more comic shops take manga seriously as a product to stock and keep track of. But then… that’s probably still a ways off.

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January 26th, 2006

[...] In the recent market share report from Diamond Comic Distributers, TOKYOPOP had fallen behind VIZ, LLC. by a decent margin, dropping 1.2% market share overall. This fall makes it a bit more obvious why people got laid off, especially the VP of sales. Oh and for those of you who don’t know, OEL is original English Language. Amerimanga. Hopefully the new manager will bring some decent books out in that realm.   [...]