• DOI:10.1007/S12109-009-9114-2
Corpus ID: 143718638

Books, Not Comics: Publishing Fields, Globalization, and Japanese Manga in the United States

@article{Brienza2009BooksNC,
  title={Books, Not Comics: Publishing Fields, Globalization, and Japanese Manga in the United States},
  author={C. Brienza},
  journal={Publishing Research Quarterly},
  year={2009},
  volume={25},
  pages={101-117}
}

C. Brienza

Published 2009

Sociology

Publishing Research Quarterly

Abstract:The market for Japanese comics, called manga, in the United States grew rapidly at the beginning of the twenty first century at a rate unprecedented in the publishing industry. Sales grew a remarkable 350% from $60 million in 2002 to $210 million in 2007 and did not begin to decline until the beginning of the recent economic downturn beginning in late 2008. No published research is yet able to account for this phenomenon in a manner that is both socially-situated and medium-specific… CONTINUE READING

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