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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6753840" data-attributes="member: 37579">Ballpark gross amount of money (i.e. before the production costs are taken off) from the sales of all of those 138 books : under 100 million dollars. 100 million over fifteen years. Or 6 million every year. Ballpark net profits (i.e after production costs) from the sale of a single year of Magic the Gathering: over 100 million dollars. Book publishing produces less than 5% of WotC's profits each year. The amount of money D&amp;D makes is insignificant compared to the difference between a good set of MtG and a poor set. They probably spend more on upgrading computers every year than D&amp;D brings in. Or, in terms of people. There are 200+ employees at WotC. A half-dozen are associated with books. Again, around 5-6%. They likely have more people in charge of maintenance and janitorial services, but I wouldn't consider WotC a &quot;office cleaning company&quot;.Would you consider something you did for 5% of every day a major part of your day? Noteworthy?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 6753840, member: 37579"] Ballpark gross amount of money (i.e. before the production costs are taken off) from the sales of [I]all[/I] of those 138 books : under 100 million dollars. 100 million over fifteen years. Or 6 million every year. Ballpark net profits (i.e after production costs) from the sale of a single year of Magic the Gathering: over 100 million dollars. Book publishing produces less than 5% of WotC's profits each year. The amount of money D&D makes is insignificant compared to the difference between a good set of MtG and a poor set. They probably spend more on upgrading computers every year than D&D brings in. Or, in terms of people. There are 200+ employees at WotC. A half-dozen are associated with books. Again, around 5-6%. They likely have more people in charge of maintenance and janitorial services, but I wouldn't consider WotC a "office cleaning company". Would you consider something you did for 5% of every day a major part of your day? Noteworthy? [/QUOTE]

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