Manga Expansions at Best Buy and Walmart: Good News or Unnecessary?
For the first time ever, Best Buy has begun selling select manga titles (Naruto, Assassination Classroom) by packaging them with anime. Meanwhile, Walmart has...
Barnes & Noble Goes Premium with its Membership
Since about mid-February, Barnes & Noble has been rolling out its revised membership offerings. So let's see what you can get by signing up...
Deck the Halloween Halls
Around the beginning of October each year, I usually do a Halloween post -- and that usually means costumes. Because cosplayers are an important...
GameStop’s Website Redesign
So GameStop did a massive overhaul of their website. Is "engaging, easier and faster to use, and tightly integrated with the stores" like they...
Making Amazon’s De-List
Fans searching for certain light novels and manga to download to their devices have been treated to an unwelcome surprise courtesy of a famous...
Back to School with Anime
For a lot of you, school will be starting up sooner than you like to think. So if you're planning on doing some back...
Free to Jump
Like most magazines, Shonen Jump has undergone changes over the years to keep up with the changing marketplace. It stopped releasing physical magazines in...
More Companies Get in on the Manga Biz
While the major English manga publishers all have variety in their releases, they also tend to have niches. VIZ Media has some of Japan's...
GameStop is Accused of Going on a Raid
Most would agree that good leadership makes a group or organization thrive. But even effective leaders aren't going to be successful if there is...
What’s Stopping GameStop From Growing?
GameStop had a poor holiday season.
Sales were down almost 19% versus the previous year's holiday season, and this decline was already on top of...