More Manga Releases This Year than Last Year?

ICv2 News predicts that there will be more English translated manga and manhwa releases in America in 2006 than there were in 2005. America’s most prolific publishers, TOKYOPOP and Viz Media, have announced only minimal increases in publishing over last year’s output, but other publishers including Bandai, CPM, and Del Rey, are expected to push American releases to an average of well over 80 new books released each month.