New York Times recognises Graphic Novels

Introducing The New York Times Graphic Books Best Seller Lists – ArtsBeat Blog – NYTimes.com.

I like this concept and I give a big whoop to the New York Times. However, I do have an issue with how they are handling the manga section. Since much manga has many vols in each series, I think they should list top selling series rather than top selling volumes. This first posting is already proof of this flaw.  If was to use the NYTimes to find a manga for someone who I knew liked manga, this wouldn’t be useful at all. Especially if the only thing I knew was that this person did not like the manga called Naruto. Now, where does that leave me? Either picking something called Eden or MPD-Psycho, or not using the useless list. I admit, I am interested right now in checking out this MPD-Psycho, and I would like to know what other non-Naruto books might be interesting.

It works just fine for the other sections, but as long as children, teens, adults and friends of manga readers are buying manga, the topsellers are almost all going to be Naruto or Bleach for a while. That is a little too monotonous for me. I would be turned off looking at the list at all after a few mostly unchanged weeks.

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