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<blockquote data-quote="Iosue" data-source="post: 6278686" data-attributes="member: 6680772"><a href="http://www.acaeum.com/library/printrun.html" target="_blank">Here</a>'s the Acaeum page.&nbsp; The 1992 125,000 figure refers to the print run.&nbsp; It doesn't have the breakdown for that year, but we can assume it was not far from the 1984 numbers.&nbsp; 1984 had a print run of 124,821 total copies, 36,973 of which went to subscribers, and the remaining 81,048 which went to stores.One thing to note is that throughout the 80s the print runs jump up by tens of thousands of issues each year, culminating in the 124,821 listed above.&nbsp; But 8 years later, the reported number is a mere 200 issues greater than the 1984 number.&nbsp; Either Dragon sales basically stagnated from 1984 on, or perhaps the 1992 TSR catalog was merely reporting the highest number of Dragon issues that had ever been in circulation in a given year. Even if the number is accurate for 1992, we're still probably not looking at more than 37,000 subscribers.&nbsp; And then in the mid-90s the Internet breaks out and store sales would only go down.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Iosue, post: 6278686, member: 6680772"] [URL="http://www.acaeum.com/library/printrun.html"]Here[/URL]'s the Acaeum page. The 1992 125,000 figure refers to the print run. It doesn't have the breakdown for that year, but we can assume it was not far from the 1984 numbers. 1984 had a print run of 124,821 total copies, 36,973 of which went to subscribers, and the remaining 81,048 which went to stores. One thing to note is that throughout the 80s the print runs jump up by tens of thousands of issues each year, culminating in the 124,821 listed above. But 8 years later, the reported number is a mere 200 issues greater than the 1984 number. Either Dragon sales basically stagnated from 1984 on, or perhaps the 1992 TSR catalog was merely reporting the highest number of Dragon issues that had ever been in circulation in a given year. Even if the number is accurate for 1992, we're still probably not looking at more than 37,000 subscribers. And then in the mid-90s the Internet breaks out and store sales would only go down. [/QUOTE]

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