Maggie Thompson’s sales stats from 1967

by John Jackson Miller One of my various hobby projects has been helping Maggie Thompson get her fanzine library established on her new MaggieThompson.com site. Harbinger #1 and Comic Art #1 from 1960 and 1961 respectively are there — and now, she’s posted the first ten issues of Newfangles from 1967 and 1968. Scan quality … Read more

The shape of lists to come?

by John Jackson Miller Continuing with the topic below of Nielsen’s Bookscan and its sales charts, an interesting post just up about its sister Soundscan top-seller lists — and how they set it up so that backlist items wouldn’t creep back up into the top-seller lists. As this is a case of them publishing sales … Read more