Curiouser, and curiouser...

[onyxhawke]

I'm not sure I'll ever figure out the publishing industry. Leaving aside some of the arcane intricacies of how things are paid for, and the interesting paths a book may take from writer to publisher to book stores, there are all sorts of weird things going on. The latest and at least to me most perplexing are the recent decisions by two name game

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[joycemocha]

At this point in time, I'm looking hard at small presses as a better source of publication(not financially, alas, but for newer writers unless you get struck by lightning). That's based on the advice of several pros I know well.

[cedunkley]

So, what happens to their catalog of already published books, especially for someone like Gail Z. Martin who is smack in the middle of a series?

As someone who is working towards producing publishable material, its a shame to see what looked like a promising new publisher vanish like that.

[bfaolan]

[onyxhawke]

And yet these same fine economics with their preference for theoretical money over real money have never failed so we should of course continue to heed their every bodily emission...

[dqg_neal]

Considering WOTC sells gaming tie-ins with rather nice size print runs. I wasn't too surprised to hear them pull out of the regular fiction market.

Were they even selling 10% on the new books compared to pre-existing game lines?

[dqg_neal]

I will definitely miss Solaris. They weren't always getting their books in stores, but what they did were some rather good pieces of fiction.