Flying off the shelves!

[BonesMcCoy]

I have seen so many threads and comments against the upcoming 3.5 books, that you can imagine my surprise when I went to Amazon.com and saw the Sales Ranking for the new books:

PH - 58
DMG - 74
MM - 94

To put that in perspective here are some other Sales Rankings:

John Grisham, The King of Torts - 93
The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings box set - 319
Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone - 84

These Sales Rankings are updated constantly I think so don't expect the numbers to be exact but it's still quite surprising.

 

[orbitalfreak]

PH - 58
DMG - 74
MM - 94

Wow! I was expecting them to be around the 1000s or so, never imagined they'd all three breach the top 100. D&D must be more popular than I'd thought.

 

[d20Dwarf]

Re: Re: Flying off the shelves!

Wow! I was expecting them to be around the 1000s or so, never imagined they'd all three breach the top 100. D&D must be more popular than I'd thought.

Or reading is less so...

 

[Crothian]

I have seen so many threads and comments against the upcoming 3.5 books, that you can imagine my surprise when I went to Amazon.com and saw the Sales Ranking for the new books:

You have to remember, EN World is not a good representation gaming community by a long shot. We are spoiled elitists who have access to too much info and ego's bigger the Hell Hound's RPG collection. We complain and argue with the people who actually write and publish the books, thinking that somehow we know better then they do.

 

[TalonComics]

And I don't want to hear anymore that people buying from Amazon doesn't effect their FLGS because those numbers show otherwise.

~D

 

[d20Dwarf]

Nobody's ordering Heroclix from Amazon.

Seriously, though, Derek, you know as well as anyone that there are thing that hurt all the tiers of the business. Rather than decrying a fact of life (internet discounters), better to figure out a different way to make money.

I'm not being insensitive to the plight of the local gamestore owner, I'm just saying things are how they are.

 

[Mercule]

Re: Re: Flying off the shelves!

We complain and argue with the people who actually write and publish the books, thinking that somehow we know better then they do.

What? You mean we _aren't_ smarter than them?!?

Here I thought that DSL connection made me smarter. I guess it just lets me make an ass out of myself more rapidly (good thing it isn't a T3).

 

[bret]

The Amazon sales orders might be a little skewed because of the postings about how to get all three books for around $27. Especially if they don't reduce the count for cancelled orders.

 

[Kaiyosama]

None the less, it is impressive.

 

[TalonComics]

Nobody's ordering Heroclix from Amazon.

Seriously, though, Derek, you know as well as anyone that there are thing that hurt all the tiers of the business. Rather than decrying a fact of life (internet discounters), better to figure out a different way to make money.

I'm not being insensitive to the plight of the local gamestore owner, I'm just saying things are how they are.

Hey Wil,

I know you mean well but I just can't ignore the things that damage one of my favorite hobbies and frankly this is one of them.

Yes, I own a games and comics store but that is the reason I even have this perspective. Sigh, maybe I am wasting my time trying to convince people that massive discounting is bad but it's still something I feel strongly about. All I want people to do is think about the consequences of supporting massive discounting and the damage it can cause over the long run.

Massive discounting use to be a "fact of life" for a while for comics and that's something I know intimately about as well.

I'm sorry I keep sounding like a broken record on this but it's just something I feel strongly about. Like I've said before, I don't take it personally if people buy from massive discounters I just want people to think about it.

~Derek