Molly Conger

Yeah.

Well, every opinion writer is saying the dumbest shit you've ever heard because of monopsony.

We found a way.

Right.

Like, no, but I think I think about that all the time that it really this is such a unicorn job because almost every job in media you do, you you have to you have to suck it up and eat the shit and you have to say the dumbest thing anyone's ever heard because that's how you keep your job.

And that's not our reality.

And I'm so grateful for that.

Ugh.

We couldn't fill the stores fast enough.

Barnes & Noble Senior Director of Books, Shannon DeVito.

The readers in the space are so voracious.

It's a good thing that the series are so long and so beautifully drawn.

because not only do they look for 10 other series to read once they finish one, they go back and reread.

Manga sales in the U.S.

quadrupled from 2019 to 2022, with a peak of 28.4 million copies sold.

It is now the fourth largest fiction category overall in the United States, behind romance, thrillers, and fantasy.

It's one of our top 10 subjects any day.

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