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<blockquote data-quote="GrimCo" data-source="post: 9303716" data-attributes="member: 7044462"><p>Well, it's not really surprising that sales are down. At least, sales in game stores. It would be interesting to see sales numbers from Amazon. Amazon is cheaper and if you live in area with Prime delivery, you can get stuff in 24-48h. Fast, cheap and convenient shopping without ever leaving comfort of your home. </p><p></p><p>People are going digital. Unlike physical book, digital book is more useful at the table for quick reference. Bookmarks, hyperlinks and search function make thing easier and faster than flipping trough the pages. Also, pdf is cheaper, you can share it with everyone in the group and doesn't deteriorate with time and use. </p><p></p><p>I'll buy physical only if it has good art that i like. That's it. I like to enjoy my art trough physical media. </p><p></p><p>In last 30 years, in my hometown with around 1 million people, there is 35000 high schoolers and around 75000 university students, which are prime customer demographics. In last 30 years, there was first one LGS that went bust. Then other company opened up first one, then the other store, then they closed second and eventually went bankrupt. After that new one opened up at the same location. And now we have our second. Call me pessimist, but i know sooner or later one of those, if not both are going to shut down. </p><p></p><p>I met guy who had that company with 2 stores. Their main source of income were TCG. Pokemon, Magic, Yugi. That's only thing that sold reliably and consistently, plus board games and geeky merch. On ttrpgs they had real slim margins and they stocked bare minimum and only things that were popular enough to sell rather quick. Books sitting on shelf were dead capital. Even now, our game stores have very slim pickings of ttrpg books since most people who play ttrpgs just order them from Amazon. But they have great stock of merch, collectible figures, accessories, board games and TCG. </p><p></p><p>Game stores are slowly going the video game store route, and that's Dodo bird route.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GrimCo, post: 9303716, member: 7044462"] Well, it's not really surprising that sales are down. At least, sales in game stores. It would be interesting to see sales numbers from Amazon. Amazon is cheaper and if you live in area with Prime delivery, you can get stuff in 24-48h. Fast, cheap and convenient shopping without ever leaving comfort of your home. People are going digital. Unlike physical book, digital book is more useful at the table for quick reference. Bookmarks, hyperlinks and search function make thing easier and faster than flipping trough the pages. Also, pdf is cheaper, you can share it with everyone in the group and doesn't deteriorate with time and use. I'll buy physical only if it has good art that i like. That's it. I like to enjoy my art trough physical media. In last 30 years, in my hometown with around 1 million people, there is 35000 high schoolers and around 75000 university students, which are prime customer demographics. In last 30 years, there was first one LGS that went bust. Then other company opened up first one, then the other store, then they closed second and eventually went bankrupt. After that new one opened up at the same location. And now we have our second. Call me pessimist, but i know sooner or later one of those, if not both are going to shut down. I met guy who had that company with 2 stores. Their main source of income were TCG. Pokemon, Magic, Yugi. That's only thing that sold reliably and consistently, plus board games and geeky merch. On ttrpgs they had real slim margins and they stocked bare minimum and only things that were popular enough to sell rather quick. Books sitting on shelf were dead capital. Even now, our game stores have very slim pickings of ttrpg books since most people who play ttrpgs just order them from Amazon. But they have great stock of merch, collectible figures, accessories, board games and TCG. Game stores are slowly going the video game store route, and that's Dodo bird route. [/QUOTE]
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