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<blockquote data-quote="kenmarable" data-source="post: 9151528" data-attributes="member: 40359">Did a lot of books sell through big box stores? The only data I’ve seen is extrapolation from BookScan which includes Amazon. Maybe I’m wrong and lots are being sold off the shelf at Barnes &amp; Noble, but no one knows that outside of WotC.It‘s purely anecdotal, but I do know our local bookstore sells them from a locked case since they had more of them stolen than they were actually selling. And, of course, being in a locked case, they are selling even fewer now.So I could easily be wrong but all evidence I’ve seen just as likely points to getting a bigger slice of Amazon sales would far outweigh any loss of traditional bookstore sales. It’s been a long time since I worked at Borders corporate, but I know at least 20 years ago Amazon was a juggernaut crushing brick &amp; mortar book sales, and it’s only grown massively since then. Amazon is orders of magnitude larger than all other traditional bookstores combined. I would not be surprised if even a 10% greater cut from Amazon was far larger than all traditional bookstore revenue.But, of course, none of us outside of WotC accounting know, I think. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> So I’ll freely admit I could be wrong, of course.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kenmarable, post: 9151528, member: 40359"] Did a lot of books sell through big box stores? The only data I’ve seen is extrapolation from BookScan which includes Amazon. Maybe I’m wrong and lots are being sold off the shelf at Barnes & Noble, but no one knows that outside of WotC. It‘s purely anecdotal, but I do know our local bookstore sells them from a locked case since they had more of them stolen than they were actually selling. And, of course, being in a locked case, they are selling even fewer now. So I could easily be wrong but all evidence I’ve seen just as likely points to getting a bigger slice of Amazon sales would far outweigh any loss of traditional bookstore sales. It’s been a long time since I worked at Borders corporate, but I know at least 20 years ago Amazon was a juggernaut crushing brick & mortar book sales, and it’s only grown massively since then. Amazon is orders of magnitude larger than all other traditional bookstores combined. I would not be surprised if even a 10% greater cut from Amazon was far larger than all traditional bookstore revenue. But, of course, none of us outside of WotC accounting know, I think. ;) So I’ll freely admit I could be wrong, of course. [/QUOTE]

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