Interesting rumor

0 Comments POSTED ON Mar 09 2007 AT 8:06 am BY Beat

We’ve received a few whispers of late that since Kurt Hassler left his position as graphic novel buyer at Borders, his replacement is not quite as manga crazy as Hassler was, and a few publishers are feeling the pinch.

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  1. Torsten Adair says:
    03/09/2007 at 10:37 am

    Is this the new guy who was on the ICV2 panel?
    Is Borders cutting back on all GNs? Did they have a glut and arereturning to saner levels? How do the Borders orders (sorry) compare to Barnes & Noble?

  2. Gregory Zura says:
    03/09/2007 at 3:19 pm

    Do you mean a few MANGA publishers are feeling the pinch?

  3. The Beat says:
    03/09/2007 at 3:50 pm

    No He wasn’t on the ICv2 panel. His name is Josh Pollak.

  4. Tommy Raiko says:
    03/09/2007 at 4:27 pm

    If this is true–that manga publishers are feeling the pinch at Borders–might it not necessarily be due to this new buyer’s individual opinion but rather a response to the *huge* amounts of manga being published nowadays?

    That is, if this phenomenon is true, might it be as likely accurate to cast it as a “market correction” or a business reality than to present it as the idiosyncracy of an individual person, be he personally “manga crazy” or not?

  5. Kiel Phegley says:
    03/09/2007 at 5:27 pm

    I can’t see any new buyer cutting the amount of Naruto and Bleach copies in stock, but last time I was home in Michigan I got a copy of Ponent Mon’s Walking Man at Borders. Things like that could easily become more rare.

    Does anyone know how the OEL books actually sell? I’d assume (perhaps wrongly) that a cut in manga stocking would include those titles as well as anything from a publisher that isn’t Tokyopop, Viz, Del Rey, etc.

  6. laurie says:
    03/09/2007 at 10:20 pm

    well that sucks – not- there is so many bookstores around here that publish manga, besides, there is always the internet. people need to buy the book, not just read it

  7. Yamila Abraham says:
    03/18/2007 at 12:57 pm

    Not this publisher. Yaoi Press Borders orders have shot through the roof since Hassler left.

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    11/06/2007 at 4:33 am

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