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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8690790" data-attributes="member: 19857"><p>It doesn't surprise me that it's weaker - or even that it's significantly weaker - but that level of drop-off is somewhat disturbing. Going from almost 140K sold for the hardcover debut to under 30K for the boxed set debut is a crushing drop-off.</p><p></p><p>But I'm not surprised that it was significantly weaker - in '87 Dragonlance was relatively fresh - Weis and Hickman had just finished the second trilogy and TSR had not yet started their Dragonlance Novel Saturation Initiative. I think (and Wikipedia backs me up on my memories this time) when the hardcover came out it was basically just the original two trilogies of books, the Tales anthologies, and the Leaves of the Inn of the Last Home along with the original modules. Fans had not yet been treated to years of novels that were cranked out as what today we would call "content" to fill a publishing schedule. Some of those novels were good, some were not, but lots of us had to have stepped off the Dragonlance train by 1992. I know I had by that point.</p><p></p><p>I'd honestly love to see the graph of the individual novel sales over time - I'll bet the numbers there, while probably higher in quantity, track with the shape of the graph here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8690790, member: 19857"] It doesn't surprise me that it's weaker - or even that it's significantly weaker - but that level of drop-off is somewhat disturbing. Going from almost 140K sold for the hardcover debut to under 30K for the boxed set debut is a crushing drop-off. But I'm not surprised that it was significantly weaker - in '87 Dragonlance was relatively fresh - Weis and Hickman had just finished the second trilogy and TSR had not yet started their Dragonlance Novel Saturation Initiative. I think (and Wikipedia backs me up on my memories this time) when the hardcover came out it was basically just the original two trilogies of books, the Tales anthologies, and the Leaves of the Inn of the Last Home along with the original modules. Fans had not yet been treated to years of novels that were cranked out as what today we would call "content" to fill a publishing schedule. Some of those novels were good, some were not, but lots of us had to have stepped off the Dragonlance train by 1992. I know I had by that point. I'd honestly love to see the graph of the individual novel sales over time - I'll bet the numbers there, while probably higher in quantity, track with the shape of the graph here. [/QUOTE]
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