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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6772172" data-attributes="member: 996"><p>Not really. When you're only doing 2 or 3 books a year, and the books sell for no more than 50 bucks, that's a sales goal of 10 or 15 million (though net would be lower because not all books sell at full price), down from 50-100 million, that's pretty reasonable. With the release of 5e last year, the TTRPG market by the one readily available measure we have (IcV2... yeah, I know) jumped by about that 10 million or so, which could very well have been mainly due to D&D, and that's just store sales, throw in discounted Amazon sales and you're easily looking at a lot of books. </p><p></p><p>Players vastly outnumber DMs but at least some of them hardly buy books at all, not even core books, while others are completists or would-be/mabye-someday DMs who pick up books even if they don't use them. </p><p></p><p>Yes, with only a few books a year, the impetus to buy even if you get very little out of each of them can get pretty strong. Like the 2-year hiatus leading up to 5e, the slow pace of publication keeps the fanbase 'hungry' for new product of almost any kind.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 6772172, member: 996"] Not really. When you're only doing 2 or 3 books a year, and the books sell for no more than 50 bucks, that's a sales goal of 10 or 15 million (though net would be lower because not all books sell at full price), down from 50-100 million, that's pretty reasonable. With the release of 5e last year, the TTRPG market by the one readily available measure we have (IcV2... yeah, I know) jumped by about that 10 million or so, which could very well have been mainly due to D&D, and that's just store sales, throw in discounted Amazon sales and you're easily looking at a lot of books. Players vastly outnumber DMs but at least some of them hardly buy books at all, not even core books, while others are completists or would-be/mabye-someday DMs who pick up books even if they don't use them. Yes, with only a few books a year, the impetus to buy even if you get very little out of each of them can get pretty strong. Like the 2-year hiatus leading up to 5e, the slow pace of publication keeps the fanbase 'hungry' for new product of almost any kind. [/QUOTE]
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