The following manga appeared on the USA Today Booklist Top 150 (PDF) for the week ending October 14th:

• #39 - Naruto, Volume 21 - Viz - (Last week: #69)
• #54 - Naruto, Volume 20 - Viz - (Last week: #77)
• #77 - Naruto, Volume 19 - Viz - (Last week: #82)

Also, Comicsnob posts the online manga sales rankings:

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Japan News Review is reporting that Kimimaro Ayanokouji, artist of the manga Tsuma no Kuchi Ichido Haritai Gum Tape, will be getting his own Nintendo DS game. The game will be called Mainichi ga tanoshii! Ayanokouji Kimimaro no Happy Techo. An online trial of the game can be found here.

Source: theOtaku

A round up of the new comic release list for the week of October 17th 2007:

• ComicList: ComicList for 10/17/2007
• MangaCast: New Manga Release List ~ Oct 17, 2007
• Manga Recon: Weekly Recon, 10/17/07
• theOtaku: New Manga Releases
• Comicsnob: Watch List: Manga et al. for the week of 14 October

The New York Times has published an interview with Daniel Pink, author of Free Agent Nation. According to the interview, the Daniel Pink has been doing research in Japan in order to create a new manga for a business audience:

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In the latest issue of PWCW, Kai-Ming Cha interviews Rain (Ru An), one of the most popular Chinese comics artist and illustrator today:

The prolific creator is also one of the oldest on China's emerging comics scene and a professor at her alma mater, the China Academy of Art. Her ethereal watercolors were featured in a gallery alongside Korean manhwa artist Seeyeon Won's works during last May's Third China International Cartoon and Animation Festival in Hangzhou.

From Icarus Publishing's blog comes a preview (NSFW) of the adult manga coming out in January 2008, based on Diamond Previews for November (Shipping in January 08).

ANN reports that staffs from Tokyopop and Viz Media will be leading manga-related seminars during the "Manga Festival" taking place at the Akihabara Enta Festival:

For the international market symposium, Tokyopop CEO Stuart Levy is scheduled to lead a seminar on the manga market in the United States, while members from the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) will present on other foreign markets.

Chuosha is reporting that Takuya Fujima's Negima!? neo, an alternate retelling of Ken Akamatsu's Mahou Sensei Negima!, will begin serialization in Magazine Special No.2 (1/18) after it ends in Comic Bom Bom.

Yahoo Auction Watch is reporting that "a fake signed sketch by Akira Toriyama" recently appeared on Yahoo! Auctions. Although the item seemed obviously fake, the seller seemed to believe that this is a real sketch (or at least pretended to believe it), and replied politely to all the rude comments. Later the sketch was sold for 39,800 yen.

Source: New Akiba

Canned Dogs reports that the online novel Sena???Sena will be adapted into a manga and begin serialization in the December issue of Comic Gum:

The manga will be illustrated by the pixel maritan artist (who also did the art for Fate/Tiger Colosseum)

Sena???Sena was previously introduced here. Also the picture in the post is from the online novel and not the manga, because I like co2a more than I like maritan.