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<blockquote data-quote="TerraDave" data-source="post: 6528128" data-attributes="member: 22260">OK. I am still not sure how a long-term trend&nbsp; towards online shopping starting in the mid 1990s impacts a relative sales ranking today. 3.0 D&amp;D was sold on amazon, and sold well. We have the figures above for the latter editions.Relative to other books on amazon 5E&gt;3.5E, by a lot. &quot;Half market&quot; or not. This is a fact, at least up to this point. Could be that the % of PHBs sold on Amazon grew faster then the % of all books&nbsp; sold on Amazon. There are fewer places to buy a PHB. But there are certainly fewer places to buy any book. And hobby game stores still exist. They focus on euro games and CCGs, but they sell RPGs as well. They sell 5E ones. Anecdotally a lot of them.&nbsp; So it could be that the increase in % of PHBs was actually lower then % increase of all books sold on Amazon, and that 5E is doing even better compared to 3.5 then the ranking indicates. It would be easiest to assume that the impact of Amazon on the RPG book market and the overall book market were roughly the same, but I guess you don't have to.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TerraDave, post: 6528128, member: 22260"] OK. I am still not sure how a long-term trend towards online shopping starting in the mid 1990s impacts a relative sales ranking today. 3.0 D&D was sold on amazon, and sold well. We have the figures above for the latter editions. Relative to other books on amazon 5E>3.5E, by a lot. "Half market" or not. This is a fact, at least up to this point. Could be that the % of PHBs sold on Amazon grew faster then the % of all books sold on Amazon. There are fewer places to buy a PHB. But there are certainly fewer places to buy [i]any[/i] book. And hobby game stores still exist. They focus on euro games and CCGs, but they sell RPGs as well. They sell 5E ones. Anecdotally a lot of them. So it could be that the increase in % of PHBs was actually lower then % increase of all books sold on Amazon, and that 5E is doing even better compared to 3.5 then the ranking indicates. It would be easiest to assume that the impact of Amazon on the RPG book market and the overall book market were roughly the same, but I guess you don't have to. [/QUOTE]

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