thread: 2005-11-01 : Dogs in the Vineyard sales to date
On 2005-11-01, Brand Robins wrote:
This reminds me of a conversation I had with Ray Fawkes (creator of Mnemovore) recently about comics and RPGs. He's found that it is very much true that "big run" products hit shelves and live or die in the first three months. However, the smaller Indie work (especially the really high quality stuff) will keep selling for years.
He goes to cons with Indie stuff he did 5 years ago and sells it at about the same rate that it did when it first came out while much of the big run stuff is so much box filler at that point.
I've had similar experiences with Church and State. It sold very slowly at first, then when the reviews started coming in it hit huge and sold up fast and kept selling until 2nd Edition of M&M came out. (Which, I suppose, tells you something about hitching your wagon to someone else's caravan....)
