D&D 5E Amazon US book sales rank.

[darjr]

 

[bedir than]

No Amazon. No FLGS. No Digital only.
And this data shows the top six products at around 5,000,000.

 

[darjr]

Hah! In the video they are playing it as low numbers.

Am I missing something?

 

[darjr]

They claim DnDBeyond makes more money than D&D.

 

[Parmandur]

Hah! In the video they are playing it as low numbers.

Am I missing something?

Yeah, some of their commentary is a bit odd to me. They also seem overly dismissive of the hobby channel for sales of 5E, which I imagine have to be an outsized chunk compared to other products.

Compared tonwhat Ben Riggs laid out from his research, these numbers seem astonishly good, particularly gicen how it is just from a few of their sales channels.

They claim DnDBeyond makes more money than D&D.

Yeah, their reasoning made sense to me: assuming a pretty small percentage of Beyond's ~13 million users are subscribers or buy product, it could easily be lapping the print sales even as high as they look to be. Whi h would make sense of Hasbro forking over such a huge chunk of change for Beyond.

 

[MockingBird]

Hah! In the video they are playing it as low numbers.

Am I missing something?

I haven't watched this particular video yet, but I have watched a lot of Prof Dungeon Masters video over the past couple years. I like him and he has good pointers, but...he seems to have become more dismissive toward 5e and WotC ever since the OGL fiasco. Some of his more recent videos have become more click baity. I still respect his style of play and pointers but I've noticed a tonal shift lately.

 

[darjr]

Ben Riggs chimed in, he said those numbers are a base for sales, and probably a low one. He told me:

Those numbers are from BookScan.
BookScan does not capture all sales, and the percentage will vary by title.
Sometimes 85 percent
Sometimes more
Sometimes less
For example, BookScan only captured 50 percent of my book's sales
So … Those numbers are interesting because they provide a floor of DND sales

 

[darjr]

The D&D movie gave them a big bump

 

[Parmandur]

Can you post a new thread with this?

Done, utilized your screencaps from upthread and cleaned up my earlier post a bit:

https://www.enworld.org/threads/5e-lifetime-sales-in-north-american-big-box-stores-revealed.698946/

@Morrus

 

[Parmandur]

The D&D movie gave them a big bump

That makes a lot of sense, amd that sort of advertising of the brand may play a role in any future the film franchise might have.