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Digital Sales at DriveThruRPG.
Recently I visited a Barnes and Nobles for the first time in a while. I found DnD and roleplaying are a thing again not longer relegated (for now) to a single shelf in the back corner of the science fiction and fantasy section. Instead they are in the main section on several tables filled with books and RPG/D&D related merchandise.
So this got me thinking about something I haven't done in a while. Crunching the order numbers from my sales from Bat in the Attic Games to get a sense of how DriveThruRPG and other Onebookshelf sites are doing.
This is only relative sales as it is based on order numbers which can be in addition to a sale contains multiple product and be for internal accounting. But the idea is that if a year has twice the order numbers compared to a previous year They are doing twice the business compared to that year.
Year to Year Orders
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Year Start # for Year Total Order for Year
2007 474,590 314,000
2008 788,590 422,649
2009 1,211,239 500,874
2010 1,712,113 671,444
2011 2,383,557 797,698
2012 3,181,255 1,016,249
2013 4,197,504 1,196,729
2014 5,394,233 1,261,849
2015 6,656,082 1,465,395
2016 8,121,477 2,407,787
2017 10,529,264 2,912,654
2018 13,441,918 3,689,355
2019 17,131,273 4,484,531
2020 21,615,804 6,599,058
2021 28,214,862
Then I thought to see what effect the pandemic had. So I ran month to month numbers starting in December 2019. There is a significant spike in April starting in the March and tailing off in June.
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Year Month Start of Month Total for Month
2019 Dec 21,271,555 344,249
2020 Jan 21,615,804 496,676
Feb 22,112,480 482,217
Mar 22,594,697 676,573
Apr 23,271,270 1,085,556
May 24,356,826 828,972
Jun 25,185,798 581,696
Jul 25,767,494 471,949
Aug 26,239,443 421,164
Sep 26,660,607 379,090
Oct 27,039,697 415,956
Nov 27,455,653 386,930
Dec 27,842,583 372,279
2021 Jan 28,214,862 392,399
Feb 28,607,261 454,345
Mar 29,061,606 311,897
Apr 29,373,503 375,032
May 29,748,535 379,954
Jun 30,128,489 362,295
Jul 30,490,784
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