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<blockquote data-quote="happyhermit" data-source="post: 6925611" data-attributes="member: 6834463">There was a really good thread on the subject before the crash, that was updated regularly. After the crash there was a really good thread started on the subject before it was taken over by off-topic politics, then eventually closed.Since Amazon numbers are rather ephemeral, and I enjoyed the original thread a lot, I thought we might try again.The original post of the post-crash thread by TerraDave on September 26th; October 23 2016 Amazon rankings in All Books, hopefully without mistakes, first in USA then in Canada in brackets;PHB; #68 (#14!)DMG; #209 (#42!)MM; #234 (#40!)Starter set; #493 (#189)Storm King's Thunder; #1812 (#422)Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide; #2220 (#5509?!?)Curse of Strahd; #2405 (#1511)So, the overall sales ranks in the US have slipped a bit in the last month, these numbers do just around a lot in response to actual sales. In response to the inevitable &quot;these numbers have no meaning&quot; arguments, yes, they do. They rank a product's sales numbers relative to other product's sales numbers on Amazon. If one product stays at a high overall ranking, such as the PHB remarkably remaining in the top 100 bestselling books, then we know it is selling better on Amazon than books ranked lower than it. They do not give us direct actual sales numbers, although we can gain insight into that from sales numbers of other books and we also have statements from Mike Mearls stating which previous editions PHBs have been outsold at this point.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="happyhermit, post: 6925611, member: 6834463"] There was a really good thread on the subject before the crash, that was updated regularly. After the crash there was a really good thread started on the subject before it was taken over by off-topic politics, then eventually closed. Since Amazon numbers are rather ephemeral, and I enjoyed the original thread a lot, I thought we might try again. The original post of the post-crash thread by TerraDave on September 26th; October 23 2016 Amazon rankings in [U]All Books[/U], hopefully without mistakes, first in USA then in Canada in brackets; PHB; #68 (#14!) DMG; #209 (#42!) MM; #234 (#40!) Starter set; #493 (#189) Storm King's Thunder; #1812 (#422) Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide; #2220 (#5509?!?) Curse of Strahd; #2405 (#1511) So, the overall sales ranks in the US have slipped a bit in the last month, these numbers do just around a lot in response to actual sales. [U][B]In response to the inevitable "these numbers have no meaning" arguments, yes, they do.[/B][/U] They rank a product's sales numbers relative to other product's sales numbers on Amazon. If one product stays at a high overall ranking, such as the PHB remarkably remaining in the top 100 bestselling books, then we know it is selling better on Amazon than books ranked lower than it. They do not give us direct actual sales numbers, although we can gain insight into that from sales numbers of other books and we also have statements from Mike Mearls stating which previous editions PHBs have been outsold at this point. [/QUOTE]

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