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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 9630244" data-attributes="member: 59816">Am I, though?You're really not listening to me - and you're conflating me with other posters. For example: I've said nothing whatsoever about D&D Beyond. And yet, I've told you that I have DECADES of experience with looking at BookScan reports. The original YouTube video that showed the report that we're talking about (the one that showed only a few thousand copies sold) was used to claim that the books were selling poorly. Sure, they may have stated that the information was limited. BUT THEY STILL USED IT TO DRAW CONCLUSIONS.I've told you multiple times: I'm not saying that you can't use BookScan to learn things about how things are selling (Why on earth would I have experience with BookScan reports if I didn't think that they were useful?) I'm saying that the specific report that was used in the initial discussion showed such a poor understanding of how to use BookScan to understand anything that it's NOT WORTH LISTENING TO. You can absolutely use BookScan to learn things. I do it all the time. That's my point.And it's not "one graphic novel one time" as you're trying to suggest. It's how BookScan works! EVERYONE who uses BookScan knows this! There was no reason to hold up such an obviously flawed report and to try to say that it meant anything, other than to try to push that the PHB was a big failure.</blockquote>