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| Faraer |
Posted - 08 Aug 2006 : 18:53:53
Each book's page on Amazon.com displays items that 'Customers who bought this item also bought'. Forgotten Realms novels display other Realms novels, with Realms sourcebooks far behind. More surprisingly, Realms sourcebooks bring up non-Realms D&D books well ahead of Realms novels. Have a look if you haven't seen this. What does this tell us?
(It would also be interesting to poll, say, people's top five Realms fiction authors and analyse the results to figure out which authors tend to be liked by the same people.) |
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| Ergdusch |
Posted - 10 Aug 2006 : 10:51:35
I tend to agree with Kia - there might not be a real evaluation behind their recommandations at all. Eho can realy tell if any customer who bought the one book actually really bought a second? I have my doubts in those adds! |
| Kiaransalyn |
Posted - 10 Aug 2006 : 05:43:11
I'm not going to trust Amazon's software regarding this. They keep recommending Robbie Williams CD's to me and I detest the man. They also recommended Paris Hilton's CD to me the other day as well. My musical knowledge may not be that great but I don't think The Egg or Roger Eno are anywhere as mainstream as the previously mentioned two.
I think Amazon tends to treat the novels as novels and therefore assume that their customer reads novels. Whereas a customer who buys FR sourcebooks must be a customer who buys D&D sourcebooks. I don't think they put any more thought into it. |
| GothicDan |
Posted - 09 Aug 2006 : 02:50:42
We might be able to contact Amazon about it.
Or maybe the people at WotC already have? |
| Reefy |
Posted - 09 Aug 2006 : 00:57:13
I'm not sure there's enough data from that to really tell you anything about the scale of the trends. |
| Faraer |
Posted - 09 Aug 2006 : 00:47:33
The first bit shows that many people read the novels but not the sourcebooks -- which we knew, though it's interesting that it works with any of the novels and not mainly, say, Bob's books.
The second bit seems to mean that more readers of Realms sourcebooks also buy other D&D books than also buy Realms novels. But we can't tell how many of them don't DM/play in the Realms and how many aren't enough into the Realms to buy the novels as well.
Exactly how big these trends are, my statistical ability isn't nearly up to working out. |
| Rinonalyrna Fathomlin |
Posted - 09 Aug 2006 : 00:38:10
I noticed that myself. I guess it proves (in a way) that FR novels are actually novels, not merely "D&D tie-ins". |
| Archwizard |
Posted - 08 Aug 2006 : 20:00:44
I think part of the answer is that some of the novel readers are not gamers. The gamers buy more D&D sourcebooks because they need them for their games. |
