Sold Worldwide
August 13, 2008
TV Tokyo is reporting that a total of 18.1 billion Yu-Gi-Oh! cards have been sold worldwide.
But Licensing Declines Keep 4Kids in the Red
August 10, 2008
4Kids sold $5.1 million worth of Chaotic Trading Cards during Q2.
From Viz Media
June 18, 2008
Viz Media has designated Konami as the exclusive manufacturer and distributor of the Blue Dragon TCG in North America .
CCG Sellouts Help
June 18, 2008
The general malaise that has afflicted the American economy has had only “limited impact” on the games business.
Locations, Strike, Graphic Novels
June 5, 2008
We had some loose ends from our initial article on Book Expo America, held last weekend in Los Angeles, that it’s time to wrap up.
Three Vampire Knight Volumes in Top 20
June 4, 2008
Although Naruto remains the strongest property on the Bookscan Top 20 Graphic Novels for May, with both of the top two spots, Viz’s Vampire Knight also had three volumes in the top 20.
New Rarity Scheme Unnecessary
June 4, 2008
Dan Barnett of Walt's Cards in Baltimore, Maryland saw retailer Stephen Armstrong’s comments about deep discounting of Dungeons and Dragons product and observes that not only is there still discounting of Magic: The Gathering product, the new rarity scheme is unnecessary.
In Down BEA
June 1, 2008
Floor traffic was light at the recently concluded Book Expo America at the Los Angeles Convention Center , but graphic novels were a bright spot.
Plus 'Solanin' and 'Nora'
May 28, 2008
Viz Media made a number of announcements at Book Expo America .
'Find a Different Distributor'
May 19, 2008
Rembert Parker of Reader Copies in Anderson , Indiana saw retailer Brian Cobos’ comments about Upper Deck and says his store received all of its pre-orders for Yu-Gi-Oh! and suggests it may be a distributor issue.