According to online book trade website Shelf Awareness, CPM and DramaQueen will be working with Consortium Book Sales and Distribution starting Spring 2007.

Source: MangaCast

Naruto volume 11 dropped from #43 to #46 on this week's USA Today Booklist. This marks the sixth week Naruto has been on the top 150 list.

The new comic release list from ComicList, compiled by LoveManga.

Pop Japan Travel has announced several new tours for 2007:

Samurai and Snow Festival Tour - Feburary 1st-9th, 2007
Gothic and Lolita Tour - March 1-8th, 2007
Yaoi Bishonen and Boys Love Tour - March 24th-31st, 2007
Ultimate Ninja Tour - April 17th-25th, 2007

AnimeAnime is currently running a column called "100 Questions About Anime & Manga Overseas," where Japanese fans send in their questions about the foreign Anime and Manga scene. One of the questions asked was "How does the scale of the U.S. manga market compare to Japan's manga market?" Below is a translation of the response:

Hi, It's Romi, again.

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Las Vegas, NV, September 25, 2006 ??? Yaoi Press will publish the young adult web comic Zesty in January, 2007. Yaoi Press has numerous enhancements planned for the print version of the series.

Zesty chronicles the adventures of Zesty Tastee, a wealthy playboy who secretly fights against his father???s corrupt business. Zesty???s father brings in the mysterious ninja agent Prince to stop Zesty, but Zesty ends up falling in with love him. As Prince tries to catch Zesty, Zesty tries to capture Prince???s heart. Mayhem ensues with sweet, romantic moments interspersed.

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From Cold Cut Distribution comes a list of the top 200 Graphic Novels for this year to date. Love Manga, Icarus Publishing, and MangaBlog expresses their opinion on the list.

David Welsh interviews David Wise, the CEO of Go! Comi, in this week's Flipped column.

Source: MangaBlog

Iris Print will be releasing a new BL anthology titled When Worlds Collide on October 20, 2006. The new anthology will contain five short comics in a manga-sized trade paperback, and is available for pre-ordered on Amazon.com or at the publisher???s web site.

Source: Love Manga

Backstage Prince will be replacing Kaze Hikaru in the October 2006 issue of Viz's Shojo Beat anthology.

Source: ANN