D&D 5E 1 Year later: D&D still strong on amazon

[Jester David]

Do people still buy those?

Why?

Minecraft books are crazy popular. We have some in my library and I cannot keep them on the shelf. Mostly among the younger kids, as they often lack kindles and the like and have parent controlled screen time
That's just the nonfiction. There's a wealth of Minecraft fiction out there as well, although most of it is ebooks/PoD.

 

[SigmaOne]

Do people still buy those?

Why?

There are many, many people who ask the same question of RPG books, I have no doubt. To each his own.

 

[aramis erak]

Minecraft books are crazy popular. We have some in my library and I cannot keep them on the shelf. Mostly among the younger kids, as they often lack kindles and the like and have parent controlled screen time
That's just the nonfiction. There's a wealth of Minecraft fiction out there as well, although most of it is ebooks/PoD.

As an elementary teacher, I see a LOT of videogame based novels, novellas, and graphic novels in the hands of intermediate level (grades 3-6; ages 8-13) kids. Pokemon, Zelda, Minecraft... and the anime/manga knock-offs, too - Digimon.

Truth be told, some of it's actually decent literature overall. Clear plot arches, decent characterizations, consistent and well executed art and layout, on target level word and phrasing choices.

And that's not counting the hint/walkthrough books for videogames. Often, those have background information on the setting that didn't get into the game itself.

 

[Henry]

Minecraft books are crazy popular. We have some in my library and I cannot keep them on the shelf. Mostly among the younger kids, as they often lack kindles and the like and have parent controlled screen time
That's just the nonfiction. There's a wealth of Minecraft fiction out there as well, although most of it is ebooks/PoD.

I have to empathize with the poor kid whose granny wants to be cool, so she buys her grandson a MIMECRAFT book for his birthday...

 

[TerraDave]

This is from the previous thread...

To try to make some relatively fair comparisons:

(this is all overall sales rank)

4E PHB

Started at 33

Fell to 54

After six months its at 2,390

After one year: 6,435

That’s a big drop off. One issue could be other ways of getting it—there was a three book box set, a deluxe version, the pdf, and of course the character builder—but still, that’s a big drop.

We can also look at 3.5 PHB

After about 1 month its at 122

After 6 months 274

At the one year point it has dropped to 4844

But then rebounds, hanging around 1000, and reaching 969 two years after launch


5E is looking good compared to these, at least so far.

Read more: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showth...he-Amazon-top-100-sellers/page4#ixzz3iDkFYQh8

Now, you can go back and see the hyper links. Whats interesting is that the internet archive will no longer collect this from Amazon...and a big chunk of the first thread was lost, but I am telling the truth!

 

[Corpsetaker]

If nothing else comes along to take the place of books that are sold well on Amazon then they will remain in their places until then. This by no means shows that D&D books are still going strong.

Amazon is not by any means a standard that people use to measure how well something is selling. It sells well on Amazon is about all the factual information you can get.

 

[Mercurius]

This is very, very good news, folks. No way to spin this negatively!

 

[Warbringer]

Good site for tracking Amazon rank and sales.

http://www.novelrank.com/asin/0786965606

 

[TerraDave]

If nothing else comes along to take the place of books that are sold well on Amazon then they will remain in their places until then. This by no means shows that D&D books are still going strong.

Amazon is not by any means a standard that people use to measure how well something is selling. It sells well on Amazon is about all the factual information you can get.

Lots of books have been released over the last year (for overall rankings), and lots of game books have been released.

But yes, if nothing else sells better then these books, then these sells better. Its true.

 

[TerraDave]

Good site for tracking Amazon rank and sales.

http://www.novelrank.com/asin/0786965606

Thanks!

We hashed this one over in the last thread: it sales estimates seem to be on the low side. In fact that page says: "* Sales Estimates are underestimated and actual sales may be much higher."

It is a good way to track relative ranks on other amazon's.