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[sales] Back of Envelope Numbers
I was just doing some back of the envelope calculations on overall sales numbers of Atomic Sock Monkey Press products for another purpose, and I figured it'd be interesting to post them here as well.

These are the numbers I have across all sales venues -- RPGNow/DTRPG, e23, and IPR (through 3Q2007), with the release date of each.



Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Robot Deluxe: 145 copies (released 12/06/2003).

Dead Inside: 420 copies (released 01/23/2004).

Cold, Hard World: 161 copies (released 08/03/2004).

Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Robot: the Roleplaying Game: 191 copies (released 05/27/2004).

Truth & Justice: 707 copies (released 07/07/2005).

T&J: The Turtlezilla Dossier: 64 copies (released 07/11/2006).

The Zorcerer of Zo: 519 copies (released 11/17/2006).



On ZoZ one-year anniversary of it's release, I'll do a post on the year-end numbers. That is, if more copies get sold in the next eleven days through RPGNow/DTRPG -- I won't be able to get a read on the 4Q2007 numbers from IPR until January 2008.

(Hmm. Interestingly, 2007 will be the first year I haven't put out a new product since forming ASMP. The development cycle for S7S has run longer than expected.)

My read on these numbers puts ASMP solidly in the middle range of small-press publishers (those not producing d20 material). There is a growing number of small-press publishers with higher sales, and an even larger number with lower sales than those posted above. All-in-all, not bad.

Anyone else have any insights or comments they'd like to share?

Thanks to all past, present, and future Atomic Sock Monkey Press customers!

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boadiccea From: [info]boadiccea Date: November 6th, 2007 03:21 pm (UTC) (Link)
Hey, congrats to you on those AWESOME numbers!!! :)
pvenables From: [info]pvenables Date: November 6th, 2007 05:27 pm (UTC) (Link)
That's 708 copies of T&J now...
chadu From: [info]chadu Date: November 6th, 2007 05:50 pm (UTC) (Link)
Thank you!

CU
ephealy From: [info]ephealy Date: November 6th, 2007 08:41 pm (UTC) (Link)
Congrats on the great numbers, Chad.

BTW, I sent you an email a couple weeks ago (on the 13th). Just wondering if you got it...
chadu From: [info]chadu Date: November 6th, 2007 08:53 pm (UTC) (Link)
I did!

I'm still reviewing options.

Thanks for the reminder, though!

CU
ephealy From: [info]ephealy Date: November 6th, 2007 08:58 pm (UTC) (Link)
Cool. Didn't know if it got lost in the sauce.
justinjacobson From: [info]justinjacobson Date: November 6th, 2007 09:34 pm (UTC) (Link)
Hey, Chad, are those print only or print + pdf. I'll know how to respond when I know what you're looking for.

Relatedly, I just noticed yesterday that just passed the $10,000 in net (i.e., less vendor commission) pdf sales since I started doing this back in May of '04.

Of course, I do publish d20 stuff, but I am decidedly small-press.
chadu From: [info]chadu Date: November 7th, 2007 02:37 am (UTC) (Link)
These numbers include PDF, Print, and PDF+Print as separate categories.

Relatedly, I just noticed yesterday that just passed the $10,000 in net (i.e., less vendor commission) pdf sales since I started doing this back in May of '04.

Whoo-hoo!

Congrats, mang!

CU
foreign_devilry From: [info]foreign_devilry Date: November 6th, 2007 09:46 pm (UTC) (Link)
Congrats, Chad!

I wish there was a way to figure out how your new association with Evil Hat will affect sales of S7S, but that's such a brilliant product with wide appeal that I suspect it's going to be difficult to compare it with your previous products.

It's so cool to see Dead Inside almost selling as many as Zorcerer. Yay for depressing games!
dadiceguy From: [info]dadiceguy Date: November 6th, 2007 10:31 pm (UTC) (Link)
Great news Chad. And for the record I finally bought a hardcopy of ZoZ from IPR.
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