D&D (2024) 2024 Player’s Handbook is ‘Fastest Selling D&D Book Ever’

It’s only officially been out for a week, but according to Wizards of the Coast, the new Dungeons & Dragons Player’s Handbook has already surpassed Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything to become the fastest selling D&D book ever—in the entire 50-year history of the game. It has sold three times as many copies as the 2014 version of the books did at launch.

Not only that, the 2024 Player’s Handbook was the biggest print run in D&D’s history.

In a press release today, WotC claims more than 85 million D&D fans worldwide, and says that D&D Beyond, the game’s official online platform, has over 18 million users.

 

[mamba]

This is what Bookscan includes in its numbers if you are curious. It does include Amazon, Barnes & Noble, BJs, Books-A-Million, Costco, Gamestop, Sam's Club, Target, Walmart, and 800 independent bookstores (among others).

and those incomplete at best, particularly Amazon. I think this number is garbage, no one should give it any credence

 

[Velderan]

Yes, exactly, we established in the discussions about your earlier Voooksvan videos that those 800 bookstores do not include any game stores, these numbers completely exclide any sales from a FLGS.

Sam's Club, Target, Walmart, Gamestop, and Costco are not selling the PHB: Amazon is, but it is specifically not categorized as a book on Amazon right now (it was categorized as a toy), so I doubt it is reporting any sales to BookScan here.

Again, all this tells us is that they sold at least 3700 books that week, but we know they sold more through a number of outlets.

So basically there's a good chance the 3700 books was Barnes and Noble alone which sure, maybe.

 

[Zardnaar]

Believe me or not, but this is what Bookscan is reporting. Here is the reporting directly:
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I wouldn't worry about it yet.

More interested in any drop off after say 6 weeks (launch window) and after the first year.

And don't care if the D&D edition I'm playing doesn't sell that well.

 

[Stonesnake]

The Player's Handbook 2024 was not categorized as a toy on Amazon.com. It's actually under the same listing as the 2014 book. You can see it for yourself here.

 

[Parmandur]

So basically there's a good chance the 3700 books was Barnes and Noble alone which sure, maybe.

Well, and Books-a-Million. And probsvly some indie book stores thwt do report to BookScab.

I wouldn't expect people to be rushing to those stores to get the hot new PHB: excited early adapters would have hit their FLGS already, or gotten the physical-digital bundle in a direct sale.

So 3700 purchases makes sense, when the normal week for the 2014 PHB was 2000 a week for years and years.

 

[Parmandur]

The Player's Handbook 2024 was not categorized as a toy on Amazon.com. It's actually under the same listing as the 2014 book. You can see it for yourself here.

Yes, as you can see, it has no book sales rank, because they categorized it as a toy on the backend, as we established in the Amazon sales thread.

 

[darjr]

The Player's Handbook 2024 was not categorized as a toy on Amazon.com. It's actually under the same listing as the 2014 book. You can see it for yourself here.

This thread

D&D 5E - Amazon US book sales rank.

Just a thread for these. Here is Radiant Citadel just moments before release day. Funny thing here is the special cover, which some stores decided to sell so it got s rank!

www.enworld.org

 

[mamba]

So 3700 purchases makes sense, when the normal week for the 2014 PHB was 2000 a week for years and years.

Tashas sold 133k in its first week according to Bookscan, so no, those 3.7k make no sense to me, given that the 2024 PHB supposedly outsold that

 

[Parmandur]

Tashas sold 133k in its first week according to Bookscan, so no, those 3.7k make no sense to me, given that the 2024 PHB supposedly outsold that

Right, I think they sold almost entirely at store off the BookScan radar.

 

[Zardnaar]

Tashas sold 133k in its first week according to Bookscan, so no, those 3.7k make no sense to me, given that the 2024 PHB supposedly outsold that

I would assume the data's late/hasn't updated