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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8696512" data-attributes="member: 6915329">According to Wikipedia, the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide was listed as #18 in hardcover nonfiction bestsellers by Publisher's Weekly of the week ending with November 16, 2015, and it appears to have sold nearly 8,000 copies in its first week. While I don't know many copies are still being sold, Amazon lists the book as currently being #13 in Puzzle &amp; Game Reference books, #38 in Dungeons &amp; Dragons books, and #35 in Activity Books, all of which suggests that it's still being sold in decent numbers.<a href="https://www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales.html" target="_blank">This site</a>, Comichron, actually lists the number of copies of various comics sold during months. In its first month, August '10, the D&amp;D comic (cover price: $1) sold 23,657 copies. (For comparison, Red Robin which I really liked, sold over 34,000.) That's pretty good, but the next available data was for November--apparently it didn't sell in September or October--and the price had been raised to $3.99 and the number of copies sold had dropped to 15,462, while Red Robin was selling over 31,000 copies. In December, the D&amp;D comic had dropped again, to 11,623 copies. It continues to drop in sale for the remainder of its existence. In July of '11, the hardcover of D&amp;D: Shadowplague sold only a little more than 500 copies.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8696512, member: 6915329"] According to Wikipedia, the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide was listed as #18 in hardcover nonfiction bestsellers by Publisher's Weekly of the week ending with November 16, 2015, and it appears to have sold nearly 8,000 copies in its first week. While I don't know many copies are still being sold, Amazon lists the book as currently being #13 in Puzzle & Game Reference books, #38 in Dungeons & Dragons books, and #35 in Activity Books, all of which suggests that it's still being sold in decent numbers. [URL='https://www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales.html']This site[/URL], Comichron, actually lists the number of copies of various comics sold during months. In its first month, August '10, the D&D comic (cover price: $1) sold 23,657 copies. (For comparison, Red Robin which I really liked, sold over 34,000.) That's pretty good, but the next available data was for November--apparently it didn't sell in September or October--and the price had been raised to $3.99 and the number of copies sold had dropped to 15,462, while Red Robin was selling over 31,000 copies. In December, the D&D comic had dropped again, to 11,623 copies. It continues to drop in sale for the remainder of its existence. In July of '11, the hardcover of D&D: Shadowplague sold only a little more than 500 copies. [/QUOTE]

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