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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 7660434" data-attributes="member: 22424">They're not even remotely comparable books. The D&D one is a core rulebook for the game. The Pathfinder one is not only not the main monster book for the game, but it's not even the equivalent of "Monster Manual 4". It's closer to something like "Libris Mortis" - a nice-to-have for some people, but very definitely peripheral.Since you're comparing Amazon sales numbers, you should also compare the Amazon prices: $31.61 for the 352-page Monster Manual versus $31.99 for the 256-page Monster Codex. So the advantage there is very much with the D&D book, not the Pathfinder one.And, finally, the sales vectors are very different as well: WotC don't do direct sales, making Amazon probably the big place to get D&D books, followed by the FLGS. For Pathfinder an awful lot of sales are through subscriptions.The thing is, your underlying point is probably right - I suspect D&D is indeed outselling Pathfinder right now. But your comparison here is, I'm afraid, sufficiently flawed as to be meaningless.</blockquote>