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<blockquote data-quote="see" data-source="post: 9367800" data-attributes="member: 10531">Actually, it almost certainly isn't.<a href="https://mystical-trash-heap.blogspot.com/2022/08/d-historical-sales-data.html" target="_blank">Someone</a> collected the reported numbers for various TSR book sales into a <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x4cdi3kcdcKG9bDXWyNu5QqwmNox0_kugC_ljJbqlj4/edit?gid=0#gid=0" target="_blank">single spreadsheet,</a> and the total reached for the AD&amp;D 1st edition PHB is 1,557,371 copies sold through 1990.Per the numbers <a href="https://alphastream.org/index.php/2023/09/25/how-dd-sells-and-what-it-means-for-the-hobby/" target="_blank">reported here</a>, the 5e PHB sold 1,563,586 copies, through US retailers that are part of BookScan, as of mid-July 2023.Now, I grant we're mixing data sources on the AD&amp;D 1e PHB numbers. And there also have been print sales of the AD&amp;D PHB since 1990 (the premium reprint, the current POD availability). But, well. That stuff would have to total to a truly huge undercount to overcome the unknown number of 5th edition PHB sales through all channels that aren't US BookScan prior to mid-July 2023 (which includes all hobby channel sales, all non-US sales, and all sales of every type in the last 10 months).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="see, post: 9367800, member: 10531"] Actually, it almost certainly isn't. [URL='https://mystical-trash-heap.blogspot.com/2022/08/d-historical-sales-data.html']Someone[/URL] collected the reported numbers for various TSR book sales into a [URL='https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x4cdi3kcdcKG9bDXWyNu5QqwmNox0_kugC_ljJbqlj4/edit?gid=0#gid=0']single spreadsheet,[/URL] and the total reached for the AD&D 1st edition PHB is 1,557,371 copies sold through 1990. Per the numbers [URL='https://alphastream.org/index.php/2023/09/25/how-dd-sells-and-what-it-means-for-the-hobby/']reported here[/URL], the 5e PHB sold 1,563,586 copies, through US retailers that are part of BookScan, as of mid-July 2023. Now, I grant we're mixing data sources on the AD&D 1e PHB numbers. And there also have been print sales of the AD&D PHB since 1990 (the premium reprint, the current POD availability). But, well. That stuff would have to total to a [I]truly[/I] huge undercount to overcome the unknown number of 5th edition PHB sales through all channels that aren't US BookScan prior to mid-July 2023 (which includes all hobby channel sales, all non-US sales, and all sales of every type in the last 10 months). [/QUOTE]

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