NYCC: Comics and graphic novels sales up 10%

Milton Griepp of ICV2.com presented his third annual white paper on comics and graphic novel sales at the Graphic Novel Conference that preceded NYCC. Graphic novels and comics sales in 2007 were up in both bookstores and the direct market to total $705 million in the U.S. and Canada, up about 10 percent from 2006. Manga sales were up, though the rate of growth was slowing, in part from increased competition as the market matures.