The following manga appeared on the USA Today Booklist Top 150 (PDF) for the week ending September 30th:

• #127 - Naruto, Volume 18 - Viz - (Last week: #74)
• #149 - Naruto, Volume 17 - Viz - (Last week: #100)

Also, Comicsnob posts the online manga sales rankings:

• Top 100 manga volumes, 29 September

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Top 10 manga (10/04) according to Tohan:

1. Lovely Complex, Volume 17
2. Yotsuba&!, Volume 7
3. 21st Century Boys, Part 2
4. Nana, Volume 18
5. Cat Street, Volume 7
6. Clover, Volume 19
7. Emma, Volume 9
8. Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden, Volume 7
9. Yamada Taro Monogatari, Volume 15
10. Liar Game, Volume 5

Additional Rankings:

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Canned Dogs is reporting that Kadokawa Shoten has delayed the releases of the manga version of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and volume 2 of School Days to an undetermined date due to the recent controversies involving both series' anime counterparts.

Via: theOtaku

According to The Beat, publisher IDW Publishing will be entering the manga market by releasing horror mangaka Kazuo Umezu's Reptilia this October.

According to this press release, the first recipient of Inoue Takehiko's Slam Dunk Scholarship has been announced:

Mr. Inoue is at SKS from Oct. 7 ??? 11 accompanying Narito Namizato, the finalist in Mr. Inoue's Slam Dunk Scholarship competition which awards a full academic and sports scholarship to South Kent School to the top 17 ??? 18 year old basketball player in Japan.

The final phase of the competition is the South Kent admission interview and evaluation. Upon successful completion of this phase Narito will attend South Kent starting in the spring term of 2008.

A round up of the new comic release list for the week of October 3rd 2007:

• ComicList: ComicList for 10/03/2007
• MangaCast: New Manga Release List ~ October 3, 2007
• Manga Recon: Weekly Recon, 10/3/07
• Comicsnob: Watch List: Manga et al. for the week of 30 September
• theOtaku: New Manga Releases

During an interview with Detective Conan (also known as Case Closed) mangaka Goushou Aoyama conducted by Sankei Shimbun, the manga artist hinted at the conclusion of the popular shonen detective manga. ANN has a brief translation:

Aoyama gave very few details about the ending for the popular series, saying, "I will not betray the hopes of fans." Volume 59 of the Conan manga will be released in Japan later this month. "I don't feel much pressure," said the author, adding with a laugh, "isn't it more fun just to not feel pressure at all? Instead, I write what feels right to me. I feel lucky that I'm able to do that."

TreeHugger reports that Detective Conan (also known as Case Closed) has inspired scientists from Japan's Nara Institute of Science and Technology to develop an ultra-thin, protein-Based memory chip:

It may seem like an unlikely source of inspiration for a new computer memory technology, but "Detective Conan" (otherwise known as "Case Closed") - a popular anime and manga series about a young detective who uses high-tech gadgets to help him solve cases - could have provided the creative spark that led to the development of a protein-based ultrathin memory.

Via: MangaBlog

Seven Seas has launched the "Are You An Otaku?" contest, where participants send in pictures of their collection to see who has the most "otaku" collection. Grand prize winner will receive "a one of a kind original full color I, Otaku illustration, drawn and signed by series creator Jiro Suzuki; Plus ten (10) of the latest Seven Seas manga, including I, Otaku: Struggle in Akihabara Vol. 1," while 10 runner-ups will received volume 1 of I, Otaku: Struggle in Akihabara.

Journalista reports that The Comics Journal's Andrew Farrago has interviewed author Jason Thompson:

Andrew Farrago's interview with cartoonist, editor and the author of Manga: The Complete Guide, Jason Thompson, who provides an insider's look at Viz Media, discusses his online graphic novel The Stiff, and describes going out of his mind trying to read and review every English-language manga ever released in preparation for his new book.