This week in the NY Times: Hasbro Earnings, Online Music, and Tesla

[Kramodlog]

Hi,

Thanks!

Can we equate "net revenue" with "earnings"?

Although, that tells me that D&D pulled in positive earnings, not much about the quantity. I suppose that means they made more from sales than they spent creating and distributing and such. Hmm, would the year's earnings (say, for D&D) include an adjustment for the present value of the development cost (not sure of the correct terminology to use). That seems like a debt from the business unit to whatever organization provided the development funds.

Thx!

TomB

Who knows? But here are some numbers on amazon sells. About 30k since launch. http://www.enworld.org/forum/showth...ellers/page2&p=6525180&viewfull=1#post6525180

 

[tomBitonti]

Hi;

Ow ow ow. (As in "ouch!"). 5K a month seems hardly very much.

But, that thread is on-going, with a lot of discussion over what the numbers mean.

Just tried to find some historical data, generally, failing. This was interesting:

http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=36953

But there don't seem to be published reliable numbers. (I'm not surprised. The numbers would be actionable, as in, data for a business plan, and valuable as a result. Not something to give away.)

Thx!

TomB

 

[Kramodlog]

The only one we know for sure comes from Erik Mona saying that PF sold 250,000 books as of March 2014. It makes the Amazon numbers sound plausible.