His (unnamed) source appears to be a TSR alumni who had access tonthe actual busines numbera nad made a copy in the 90's and kept it, not neccesarily going to have anything in WotC. Though he did do a seminar at GenCon about 3E and 4E selling massively less than 2E.Fun. It looks like 1E stuff outsold its equivalent 2E stuff by a factor of x2-5, depending.
Does he have charts for the WotC era?
I'm really curious about that.Though he did do a seminar at GenCon about 3E and 4E selling massively less than 2E.
I'm pretty sure that's a reference to his What the Heck Happened with Fourth Edition? seminar that he held at Gen Con (which I believe was something of a preview of a new book).I'm really curious about that.
I hope he does get concrete sources and numbers for the WotC-era book he's supposedly working on.
Looking at the Dragonlance sales...
Those represent returns from Random House. It's...not good news. Means those negative sales were sitting in their warehouse costing money.Looking at the Dragonlance sales...
What's the significance of negative sales (1990)? I don't see how that's possible.
It may have been a correction of numbers. Greyhawk Adventures also has a similar dip into the negatives. Back in the early 1990s, both books were being sold at Gen Con for a few bucks (under $5 for sure, though I can't remember whether it was $2 or $4). The story was they had found bunches of them in a warehouse somewhere and were liquidating. I don't know if that feeds into the negative sales figures or not, but it could indicate that numbers they thought had sold previously... hadn't.Looking at the Dragonlance sales...
What's the significance of negative sales (1990)? I don't see how that's possible.