According to the article below, Henri Pollet and Céline Fédou from GfK, the German market research institute, 2005 album sales were down over 2004, with the lion's share of sales going to long-established series. While the number of titles increased 11.6 %, actual sales declined 2.5%. Manga now makes up 30% of the French market and total sales are somewhere around 398 million Euros.
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