Tag: Bookscan
Women and children conquered The Walking Dead in 2014 graphic novel sales
Brian Hibbs has posted his annual Bookscan analysis—charting actual sales of books that report to Nielsen’s Bookscan sales charts. while Bookscan numbers are not...
Tilting at Windmills #240: Looking at BookScan: 2014
By Brian Hibbs
(Originally published February 2015)
“There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics”
For the twelfth (!) year in a row, I’m...
Tilting at Windmills #230: Looking at BookScan: 2013
By Brian Hibbs
(Originally published February 2014)
“There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics”
For the eleventh (!) year in a row, I’m...
Tilting at Windmills #221: Looking at BookScan: 2012
By Brian Hibbs
(Originally published February 2013)
“There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics”
For the tenth (!) year in a row, I’m...
BookScan: Kids’ comics and The Walking Dead ruled bookstore sales in 2012
It's my FAVORITE day of the year, when Brian Hibbs posts the year-end sales from bookstores via the Bookscan chart. Now we know these numbers are significantly low, but as I always say, they present a metric.
The huge take away? Well, we all knew The Waking Dead was a juggernaut,—sales in this franchise would have made it the #3 publisher all by itself—but after that it's kids comics all the way, led by the maybe-comics of Dork Diaries, but following by Big Nate, Ninjago, Ursula Vernon's Dragonbreath, Drama and so on.
