D&D 5E Amazon US book sales rank.

[darjr]

Well if it is, no wonder they thought a movie was a good idea to spend money on!

 

[Parmandur]

Wow. Considering that the phb has consistently hovered in the 50 range, that would put lifetime phb Amazon sales at 1.8 million copies. And that’s only Amazon US.

Holy crap.

Yup.

 

[vecna00]

If those numbers are even close to accurate, just holy crap!

 

[Parmandur]

If those numbers are even close to accurate, just holy crap!

It's relatively less crazy when you consider that D&D Beyond has 10 million active users right now.

 

[ad_hoc]

The main difference between 5e and all the others, AFAICT, is that all the rest of them, no matter how high they started, plummeted around year four (give or take) and then trickled until their ultimate end. 5e was still RAISING by 2018. This is why it's totals, no matter how much the market may have been smaller at the start (I don't know about that, but I believe it was smaller than the initial market for 1e, at least) it just keeps on going and going.

I know that as a retailer, in 2e, 3.5, and 4e, by this time, I was lucky to turn over a single copy of any of the core books in a month. New splat books would sometimes only turn over one or two copies in their lifetime. 5e still sells dozens (or more) of every book released, and we still sell core books multiple times a week! AND that's with all the other ways of getting the books competing with us (which never used to be quite the case!)

Every year since release the rate of sales has increased, sometimes in leaps and bounds.

That can't last forever of course but even if it evens out or even declines it will still be doing very well like you said.

 

[ad_hoc]

No, thst sounds about right.

Yep. The last numbers we have gotten is that the game has over 50 million active players and we know that the rate of sales has continued to increase since then.

That is just on Amazon too.

 

[darjr]

The new Dragonlance Novel is at 229 out of all books on Amazon US.

Dragons of Deceit: Dragonlance

 

[vecna00]

The new Dragonlance book is at 229 out of all books on Amazon US.
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Is this the novel or the game book?

 

[darjr]

Is this the novel or the game book?

Novel.

 

[darjr]

Spelljammer is 40.

 

[darjr]

Spelljammer, 35.

Wow.

 

[Parmandur]

Spelljammer, 35.

Wow.

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Over/under on whether NewJammer outsells OldJammer's lifetime sales by 8/16?

 

[darjr]

Over/under on whether NewJammer outsells OldJammer's lifetime sales by 8/16?

Dunno. Need to figure. I wonder if it’ll do it day one with the preorders. Or does that count?

 

[Parmandur]

Dunno. Need to figure. I wonder if it’ll do it day one with the preorders. Or does that count?

Yeah, I meant with preorders, basically. 2022 may already be Spelljammers banner year for sales.

 

[bedir than]

Over/under on whether NewJammer outsells OldJammer's lifetime sales by 8/16?

It probably did already

 

[Jer]

Yeah, I meant with preorders, basically. 2022 may already be Spelljammers banner year for sales.

According to the numbers Ben Riggs posted, to beat the lifetime sales on the original boxed set it needs to sell ~84K copies.

I wish we knew what scale the adventure books are generally selling at.

 

[Parmandur]

According to the numbers Ben Riggs posted, to beat the lifetime sales on the original boxed set it needs to sell ~84K copies.

I wish we knew what scale the adventure books are generally selling at.

Chris Perkins said a number of years back that their target for sales on non-core books was 100,000 copies, but that was before 5E really exploded.

 

[vecna00]

If this is any indication so far....

 

[vecna00]

But if it hits Number 1....

 

[darjr]

top 100 Sci Fi books on Amazon US.