Moon Phase reports that the love/comedy light novel series Kanokon by Katsumi Nishino (story) and Koin (art) will be adapted into an anime. The light novel is currently being published by Media Factory, with a manga version drawn by Rin Yamaki serialized in Comic Alive.

According to Ichijinsha, the seasonal manga magazine WARD will become a bi-monthly magazine starting with the 2007 Winter issue (Vol.19).

According to this press release, software developer Voice Bank, together with Digital Manga Association Japan, will has announced at the International Comic Artist Conference in Hong Kong its plan to deliver manga to Apple's iPhone and iPod under the name "Digital Manga Project":

With a unique touch panel instead of a keypad, iPhone/iPod touch are one of the most desired mobile devices since arriving this year. With cooperation of the Digital Manga Association of Japan, Voice Bank, Inc, has started a 'Digital Manga Project'(http://www.digitalmanga.org), that enables users to view Manga on their iPhone/iPod touch by Safari.

From ICv2 comes an analysis of Diamond Comic Distributors' October sales:

[..] the bottom half of those lists shows surprising strength against year ago numbers. This is true in both comic and graphic novel numbers for October 2007 vs. October 2006.

Also, MangaBlog provides its own look at the data, as well as a list of manga from the Top 100 Graphic Novels chart.

The Brazilian manga and anime blog Papo de Budega has been relaunched at papodebudega.com.

A few months ago Kodansha announced its plan to discontinue Comic BonBon.

An official announcement has been posted by Comic BonBon's editorial department announcing the future of the titles serialized in the magazine:

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In "Meeting Mangaka, part one," Del Rey Manga's Dallas Middaugh talks about his experience meeting with various mangaka, including Rumiko Takahashi:

I've met three mangaka in my manga career. (Honestly, it could be more, but my memory fails me some days.)

Also available is a preview of Del Rey's upcoming manga Aventura by Shin Midorikawa.

From Manga Jouhou comes an interview with Hope Donovan, editor of Tokyopop's Rising Stars of Manga competition:

We asked her a ton of questions, and thankfully, instead of putting us on her spam list, she was nice enough to answer them all. The interview focused primarily on the state of the industry and what it takes to go from ambitious young writer / artist to published manga-ka.

The following manga appeared on the USA Today Booklist Top 150 (PDF) for the week ending November 11th:

• #57 - Naruto, Volume 24 - Viz - (Last week: #112)
• #65 - Naruto, Volume 22 - Viz - (Last week: #126)
• #67 - Naruto, Volume 23 - Viz - (Last week: #147)

Also, Comicsnob posts the online manga sales rankings:

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A round up of the new comic release list and views for the week of November 14th 2007:

• ComicList: ComicList for 11/14/2007
• Manga Recon: Weekly Recon, 11/14/07
• theOtaku: New Manga Releases
• Precocious Curmudgeon: Upcoming 11/14/2007