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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Monte At Home" data-source="post: 1563584" data-attributes="member: 1335">Eh? This isn't a true statement by any definition.I can only assume that you're basing that comment off of something like the RPGNow bestsellers list, where it lists our bestselling product as Book of Eldritch Might II. That's nice and all, but not at all an accurate look at our sales.(Our bestselling pdf--by far--is Book of Eldritch Might I, just not on RPGNow. Mainly because that product existed longer than RPGNow has by a fair bit. Plus, RPGNow represents only a part of our pdf sales and--for reasons I can't yet explain--RPGNow sales trends do not always coincide with our main site pdf sales.)We just celebrated our 3 year anniversary since Book of Eldritch Might came out. Our best selling pdf products are our oldest ones. You could look at that and say that things sold better in the past. But when you look closer, you see that's not the case. Pdfs aren't like print books. They stay "in print" forever and no one ever runs out of stock. It's always right there "on the shelf."When we track 1st day sales, 1st week sales and 1st month sales, we see that a strong selling pdf now sells in it's first week what a strong seller sold two years ago. But, with a few exceptions, mainly adventures, pdfs keep selling--they are, to use Ryan Dancey's term, "evergreen."Much to my surprise, we're still selling new copies of Book of Eldritch Might every day. Thus, we've found that our older pdf products outsell our newer ones because they've had longer in the run. But our products aren't selling worse. It's about the same, actually, on a title by title basis. As a business, our pdf sales have only increased with each month, but again, that can be attributed to the evergreen nature of pdfs and our growing catalog of titles.On the broader topic of the d20 bubble bursting and all that, well, I've been meaning to write a column about that for a while now. (Maybe I'll go do that right now.) In brief, though, I think the days of putting out any old crap, slapping the d20 logo on it and selling a half-decent number are over, and I say good riddance. I love the way the d20 industry is shaping up. There's some great stuff out there now.</blockquote>

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