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Evil Hat Sales: 2009 Catch-Up
So, once upon a time I regularly updated my livejournal with Evil Hat’s sales numbers. I fell off that horse a goodly time back — evidence points to May 1st as the last time I did this — so it’s time...
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Evil Hat Sales: 2009 Observations
On Monday I posted the missing 8 months of sales data I’d been too busy most of this year to post. So, that’s done, bringing us up to the end of the year (save for a big chunk of sales reckoning from...
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Evil Hat Sales: Finishing 2009
IPR numbers are in! Here’s the skinny. Previous Totals 2009Q4 to date: Penny PDF: 19 Penny Print: 12 DLYM PDF: 21 DLYM Print: 7 DRYH PDF: 41 DRYH Print: 25 SOTC PDF: 47 SOTC Print: 33 SOTC HC: 12 SOTS...
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Evil Hat Sales Numbers: Q1 2010
Where We Started Lifetime: Penny: 398 (so close!) DLYM: 752 DRYH: 2562 SOTC: 4937 SOTS: 585 S7S: 868 IPR For Q1 2010 Penny PDF: 6 Penny Print: 40 (29 to retail) DLYM PDF: 4 DLYM Print: 59 (52 to...
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Four Weeks, Two Thousand Books
A Sunday post, because the data’s in. We’ve had four full weeks of the Dresden Files RPG preorder over on the Evil Hat webstore. In that time, we’ve broken 1,000 copies sold of each of the two books....
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One Quarter Worth of Dresden Files Sales
So we’re done with the second quarter of 2010. Somewhere past the middle of this month I’ll cough up some real numbers on our sales overall for you data-hounds to chew on. But first, a preamble. Back...
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Evil Hat Sales Numbers: Q2 2010
Hold on to your hats, folks. This one was super interesting. Where We Started Lifetime: Penny: 471 DLYM: 860 DRYH: 2746 SOTC: 5219 SOTS: 605 S7S: 987 IPR For Q2 2010 Penny PDF: 2 Penny Print: 29 (20...
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Evil Hat Sales Numbers: Q3 2010
So what’s a quarter look like AFTER the quarter where we released what amounts to, at our scale, a blockbuster? A little something like this. Where We Started Lifetime sales prior to this quarter:...
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Evil Hat Sales Numbers: Q4 2010
Different format this time, because I wanted to use a spreadsheet. The high level “gut” view: sales were down (as expected) in the fourth quarter of last year, but not horridly so. In terms of sales...
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Small Corrections on Q4′s Numbers
I goofed up my spreadsheet a little last quarter, it looks like, so the overall lifetime tallies were a bit off. Here’s the corrections: Title Correct Incorrect Adjustment Penny 919 908 11 Diaspora 479...
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Evil Hat Sales Numbers: Q1 2011
Buoyed by some sales leading to stronger performance in PDFs than usual (at least for some titles), Q1 actually did pretty well by the quantity tallies, which are what I share here. Reality is we did...
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Evil Hat Sales Numbers: Q2 2011
Is it Q3 already? Let’s look back on Q2, then. Summary: it’s all about watching the long tail taper. A few early numbers in for Do, though, getting a very strong debut thanks to its Kickstarter....
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Evil Hat Sales Numbers: Q3 2011
It’s a new quarter! That means we look back on Q3, the big ‘un, the one with conventions in it, a release of a new Dresden Files novel, awards, all that jazz. How’d we do? To get a little...
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Dear Deadly: Chain of Ownership in Distro
David Berg writes, over on the Evil Hat 2011 Q3 Sales Numbers post: I have a bunch of distro questions! If this isn’t the place for them, no prob, I can revisit some other time. Basically, I’m...
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Evil Hat Sales Numbers: Q4 2011
2011 ended not so much with a bang as a whimper. Every single title experienced fall-offs, some of them a bit drastic (but explicable — Do’s coming off its release spike, and Dresden the prior quarter...
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2012 Q1 Sales Numbers
2011′s last quarter was weak, so it’s no shock we’re seeing improvements on almost all products in the first quarter of 2012 compared to 2011. The catalog is aging and we’re only just now starting to...
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What’s It Take For DRTB To Get Profitable?
Quick post today. What’s it take for our in-preorder Don’t Read This Book to be profitable? This is going to be based on an approximation of the costs of the writing, editing, cover art, printing, and...
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2012 Q2 Sales Numbers
Here’s how the second quarter of 2012 went for Evil Hat. Inside of that quarter we saw the conclusion of our Dinocalypse Trilogy kickstarter, which sold a cheeeap e-bundle of all of the novels funded...
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