After a month, sales of the Tales of Zo collection have been anemic, at best. Furthermore, my publisher cannot take advantage of the ebook promotion tools on Amazon until it has at least 5 reviews there ( Read more... )

Fred's post with the Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies (and other Evil Hat games) sales numbers is now up here.

...I'm having a conversation with Paul Czege (My Life with Master) on storygames about the numbers. Come on and stop by!

http://is.gd/dzGLE

With the IPR 2Q2010 numbers that came in recently, I decided to take a look at the numbers (as of 6/30/2010).

Here, have some data ( behind the cut )

With the IPR 1Q2010 numbers that came in recently, I decided to take a look at the numbers (as of 3/31/2010).

Here, have some data ( behind the cut )

I haven't done this in awhile, but have decided to get back into the practice.

With the IPR 4Q2009 numbers that came in recently, I decided to take a look at the numbers (as of 12/31/2009).

Here, have some data ( behind the cut )

(Especially the Adventure game -- read RPGs, wargames, board games, etc. -- designers.)

What, to you, is the definition of an "evergreen" product?

Also, what metrics do you use to determine that?

Inspired by this thread on Story-games.com, I went to check the numbers on lifetime sales for Truth & Justice.

Across IPR (Print, PDF, and Print+PDF), OBS (RPGNow and DTRPG), and e23, as of today T&J has sold 1027 copies!

IPR:
* [Print] = 91
* [Print+PDF] = 53
* [PDF] = 24

OBS = 705

e23 = 154

TOTAL = 1027

Woo-hoo!

(Oh, crap -- I need to ( Read more... )

Intriguingly, over 707 people have downloaded the free PDQ# (PDQ Sharp!) from the OneBookshelf sites (DriveThruRPG and RPGNow).

Please recall that PDQ# is the underlying system "guts" for S7S and contains zero setting info.

This number doesn't include direct downloads from the ASMP website... yet.

Direct hits on the PDQ# PDF ( Read more... )

With the IPR 2Q2008 numbers that came in recently, I can say that lifetime sales of T&J are approximately:

859

...and lifetime sales of ZoZ are approximately:

668

Thank you all!

( sales-site breakdowns behind cut )