{"id":12523,"date":"2008-04-21T16:15:03","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T20:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=12523"},"modified":"2008-04-21T16:15:03","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T20:15:03","slug":"domestic-manga-sales-slowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/domestic-manga-sales-slowing\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestic Manga Sales Slowing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ICv2 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icv2.com\/articles\/news\/12416.html\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that domestic translated manga sales rose 5% from $200 million in 2006 to $210 million in 2007 &#8211; the smallest year-to-year growth for manga since ICv2 began keeping record of annual manga sales. While mainstream bookstore manga sales increased incrementally, comic book store sales of manga declined by 5-10%.<\/p>\n<p>The decline may be partially caused by increasing market saturation. There were 1513 new manga releases in 2007, up by 25% from 2006&#8217;s 1208 new releases.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m no mathmatician, but a 25% increase in product versus a 5% increase in sales does not seem to add up to a positive future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICv2 reports that domestic translated manga sales rose 5% from $200 million in 2006 to $210 million in 2007 &#8211; the smallest year-to-year growth for manga since ICv2 began keeping record of annual manga sales. While mainstream bookstore manga sales increased incrementally, comic book store sales of manga declined by 5-10%. The decline may be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}