Tag: Bookscan
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 going to try to figure out something that is hard...
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 going to try to figure out something that is hard...
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 going to try to figure out something that is hard...
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.
