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I'm love to see the real sales figures too.

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There's a lot of talk about adult being a multi-billion dollar business, but it seems that with the glut of material out there, individual titles, regardless of the studio, director or star, don't sell in MAJOR numbers. I remember seeing Deep Throat had a blurb on the cover saying it was a "million seller", but it's 30 years old and it's been available to the home video market for over 20 years. It was one of the first titles available! I'd like to know the actual number of copies the average Evil Angel title sells. Or Vivid or Wicked or Elegant Angel, etc.

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<i"The industry as a whole, if they're smart, will jump on the bandwagon and start promoting for the younger generation," states freelance actor/director Rob Rotten, a well-pierced man who has more ink than skin showing. "I just turned 24, so I'm still like a kid, and it's really hard for me to go in and talk to people who've been doing porn for 20-plus years. They've had this same formula that's worked for them for that time. If they put a blond on the cover, they're going to sell 4,000 pieces and make money off a $20,000 movie."

Comstock Films:Real Life, Real People, Real Sex

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We still get full price for M&J, and it's been on the market for three years, and available on DVD for more than two years. We've had customers ask for discounts based on the quantity they're buying, but never on the basis of how long the title has been available. Let hope they don't start now, I just paid for a run of another 5,000 pieces!

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Tony's product is one of those "special" cases. Product that has a specialized reputation never goes down. Like Tony's stuff, or Nina's sex guides, or ZFX bondage, or GGG, or those "made by women for women" lesbian features like Sugar High, Glitter City.

Evil Angel and Falcon are probably the biggest studios that keep all their titles priced high ($16-$36 per DVD for the retailer) forever. Even Vivid and Wicked seem to reprice quicker (except for the Jenna and Tera titles, of course). Most A-level titles (Evil, Elegant, Ana/Dia, etc) start off at $16-36 cost for the retailer. Eventually the studios/distributors reprice down to $10 or under. Some studios keep their catalog prices at this price forever (Ana, Zero, Platinum). But most studios eventually drop their prices so low that most retailers can pick up a box of a studio's catalog for less than $5 per DVD. For most titles, this drop to the lowest wholesale price occurs within 6 months of its initial release.

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