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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 6366153" data-attributes="member: 3400">There's no doubting it's not easy to get into Amazon's top 10 for the All Books category. But some of this is conjecture rather than established fact. Do we know it's thousands of sales per hour? I'm not entirely sure of that. It might be, but it might not be either depending on what else is relatively hot. I again suggest people look at other entries on the list. Sure - To Kill a Mockingbird and The Great Gatsby are on the list. But so are the esoteric titles of Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th Edition and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition: DSM-5. In fact, today they are right behind the D&D Player's Handbook. They're undoubtedly spiking right now as the new college academic term is ready to start up, but thousands an hour? It gets harder to see that as fact for all cases of being at the top of the heap. If the PH were beating a new release by JK Rowling on the Potterverse, then I'd easily believe thousands per hour. Against the current list, maybe it is - maybe it isn't.I think it's reasonably safe to say that the 5e PH is selling well right now - like any new release of a D&D Player's Handbook should be expected to sell. But it's hard to put that into a comparison with other editions and hard to translate that into a long term trend. And its even harder to tell how much of the potential market or even desired market is participating. More data is necessary to answer those questions.</blockquote>

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