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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bloodstone Press" data-source="post: 1300264" data-attributes="member: 12468">Not high enough profile, I think. Now that you mention it, I am aware of the Downloader monthly, and I've even downloaded it once or twice, but I didn't even think of it when we were discussing such an idea further up this thread.  It's not in my "evoked set," as marketers like to say.   I think there is a lot of validity in that. I know when you re-release a title, you don't sell as many as you did with the original release, even though you are getting the same "front page" exposure. Witness the recent re-release of the Hero's Handbook. It only sold about half as many copies in the first month of re-release as it did when it was originally released.  In fact, I suspect that many of the people who shop on RPGnow are not only regulars, but are often publishers, editors, artists, and reviewers, themselves and are therefore very active in the community. So they are likely to buy something they want as soon as it comes out.   Is that similar to last year? I seem to remember seeing a chart showing RPGnow sales for last year. I don't remember if it was on these boards or in the Publisher's guide you put out, but I seem to remember seeing a bit of a dip in the November, December, January range.   Personally, my sales were very strong the last quarter of 2003. I made almost as much in November and December as I had in the previous 10 months combined. That's largely due to many new releases on my part, though.  Also, when you consider sales volume on RPGnow, is it possible that the trend toward smaller, cheaper products (the chunk-o-book that Dana talks about), is influencing the numbers?  Although the overall average price of a product on RPGnow might not change much, the fact that many sales come from new releases, and that there is a trend to do smaller titles (I think there is such a trend anyway), could cause a dip in revenue, despite increasing traffic and number of units sold.  Has there been a flattening of units sold or just a flattening of revenue? What about traffic?</blockquote>

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