From:	pasquires@*****.com (Paul Squires)
Subject:	LE for sale on ebay
Date:	Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:42:03 +0100

On 10/20/05, Jan Jaap van Poelgeest <jjvanp@*****.com> wrote:
> --- Lars Wagner Hansen <l-hansen@*****.tele.dk> wrote:

> Which has me wondering how many Shadowrun players the
> world numbers. I suppose it's difficult to make a
> decent estimate, but on the other hand the amount of
> books&pdf's sold ought to be indicative. It's "only" a
> matter of working out how many books to the SR group,
> which numbers X.x players. Then there's the player
> base: people who've played it but don't buy books
> anymore (or perhaps never even have) -they'd count for
> something too as they could potentially pick the game
> up again when a new edition appears.
>

Then there are all the people who haven't played for years (since SR1
in fact), but bought loads of SR2 and then SR3 books, but will never
touch SR4... :)

More seriously, there do seem to be a lot of people who don't actually
play, but still buy books, plus it might be difficult to match PDF and
dead-tree sales - a single person might buy both...

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