{"id":14552,"date":"2009-02-06T13:55:47","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T17:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/06\/domestic-manga-sales-down-in-2008\/"},"modified":"2009-02-06T13:55:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T17:55:47","slug":"domestic-manga-sales-down-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/domestic-manga-sales-down-in-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestic Manga Sales Down in 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comic industry observer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icv2.com\/articles\/news\/14239.html\" target=\"_blank\">ICv2 reports<\/a> that 2008 manga sales in America were down roughly 17% compared to 2007. The decline is blamed on the current U.S. economic recession; diminished mainstream promotional exposure for manga and anime; changes in the Borders bookstore chain&#8217;s purchasing procedure; and the success of author Stephenie Meyer&#8217;s series of &#8220;Twilight&#8221; novels that have siphoned off female manga readers. However, despite a 17% drop in sales, domestic manga releases only declined by 9% from 2007 to 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comic industry observer ICv2 reports that 2008 manga sales in America were down roughly 17% compared to 2007. The decline is blamed on the current U.S. economic recession; diminished mainstream promotional exposure for manga and anime; changes in the Borders bookstore chain&#8217;s purchasing procedure; and the success of author Stephenie Meyer&#8217;s series of &#8220;Twilight&#8221; novels [&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-14552","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\/14552","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=14552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}