D&D 5E (2014) Amazon US book sales rank.

[darjr]

Amazon lists Dragon Delves as selling 500+ and ranked at

#25,412 in Toys & Games

 

[bedir than]

Well, this is odd.
There's now a section under Books-->Sci-fi & Fantasy-->Games--> D&D on Amazon Best Sellers.
The 2014 PHB is still there, below a few third party books at #6. Daggerheart is at #15
900 bought 2014 PHB in the last month. There's no data on Amazon for 2024

https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Books-Dungeons-Dragons-Game/zgbs/books/16215/ref=zg_bs_nav_books_3_16211

 

[Parmandur]

Well, this is odd.
There's now a section under Books-->Sci-fi & Fantasy-->Games--> D&D on Amazon Best Sellers.
The 2014 PHB is still there, below a few third party books at #6. Daggerheart is at #15
900 bought 2014 PHB in the last month. There's no data on Amazon for 2024

https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Books-Dungeons-Dragons-Game/zgbs/books/16215/ref=zg_bs_nav_books_3_16211

That's because the 1014 books are not categorized as books in Amazon catalog, but toys.

We have deduced this has something to do with WotC nipping Amazon underselling other retailers in the bud.

 

[bedir than]

That's because the 1014 books are not categorized as books in Amazon catalog, but toys.

We have deduced this has something to do with WotC nipping Amazon underselling other retailers in the bud.

No, the oddity is that 2014 (i'm assuming you meant 2024, but it's hard to tell) is outselling Daggerheart.

 

[darjr]

No, the oddity is that 2014 (i'm assuming you meant 2024, but it's hard to tell) is outselling Daggerheart.

The the rank crashes when a book isn’t in stock. Look near the beginning of this thread and you’ll see a graph of the 2014 PHB crashing in rank when it was not in stock.

 

[darjr]

I found this with a quick search:
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I am kind of curious what happened in March 2016 that stabilized the position. Were the other dips because it went out of print, maybe?

 

[Parmandur]

No, the oddity is that 2014 (i'm assuming you meant 2024, but it's hard to tell) is outselling Daggerheart.

I mean, Daggerheart is selling like hotcakes, but people seem bot to be tired of the 2014 rules either.

 

[darjr]

It's not the same but Amazon US has a note about the Hero's of the Borderlands selling 7k from them in the last month.

 

[Parmandur]

It's not the same but Amazon US has a note about the Hero's of the Borderlands selling 7k from them in the last month.

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That is interesting.

It is really weird now looking at the best selling Dungeons & Dragons books section now thst all the new D&D books are not "books" in distribution terms any more. Poking around, I found more reason to be skeptical of modern Amazon's categories, feels like some AI hallucination enshitifcstion is occuring:

And the top three books for "Savage Worlds" are...not Savage Worlds, at all, but for three entirely different systems:

Daggerheart seems to be doing well as a book, though, it'salso higher on the Pathfinder list than anything published by Paizo (the top Pathfinder spots are 3rd party 5E products):

 

[darjr]

It's not the same but Amazon US has a note about the Hero's of the Borderlands selling 7k from them in the last month.

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Just to compare here is the 2014 PHB back from June. 5k bought in a month and ranked 253 out of all books Amazon US.

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