Borders, the nation's second largest bookseller, narrowed its third quarter losses from $3.1 million a year ago to $1.8 million this year.

The world's largest bookselling chain, Barnes & Noble, posted a profit of $3.8 million or 5 cents a share for the third quarter, which compares with a loss of $6.8 million during the same period a year ago.

Beyblade , the high tech spinning top combat game that took Japan by storm, is slowly but surely establishing a beachhead in North America.

ICv2 has learned that Marvel and Graphitti Designs have settled the dispute that had brought a halt to all shipments of Marvel t-shirts from Graphitti in September.

ADV Films has announced the details of its release of one of the most highly awaited anime series of the last decade.

From Entertainment Weekly to Ain't It Cool News to the TheForce.net , the entertainment world has been buzzing this week about a potential Star Wars animated series that has reportedly been offered to the Cartoon Network.

4Kids Entertainment has designated Bandai America Inc. as the master toy licensee for the U.S. for the animated series Ultimate Muscle: The Kinnikuman Legacy .

World According to Griepp was a monthly column written by ICv2 founder Milton Griepp in Internal Correspondence, ICv2's print predecessor. This is the first such column written for ICv2.

Our report on the GAMA board's decision not to enforce the membership's resolution to ban Internet discounters from the floor of Origins has generated considerable response. Now it's come full circle, as WizKids Executive Vice President Martin Stever, who introduced the resolution in the first place, weighs in expressing his frustration with the situation.

EN World and Goodman Games have announced plans to publish a quarterly d20 magazine, EN World Player's Journal , beginning March 2003.

Fast Forward Entertainment has announced that it will be producing a series of d20 products in a new d20 campaign world based on the Demon Wars novel series by R. A. Salvatore.

The second printing of Batman #608, which was about 30% of the size of the first printing, has sold out at the distributor level less than a week after it hit stores.