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Lord Rad
Great Reader
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 28 Jan 2003 : 22:09:57
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Ok this is a bit of a rant, but also a, hopefully, constructive point for FR authors out there who may read this......
First of all my disadvantage as far as WotC products are concerned, is that I live in the UK..... where WotC distribution is abysmal to say the least. However, D&D\FR products do eventually turn up in some selected stores, maybe a month or so later that the release date. However, FR novels VERY RARELY appear! I would expect that novels would have a wider distribution as they would go to not only hobby stores but also bookstores and large newsagent chains (as they used to in the days of TSR), but this is not the case. I have never seen ANY of the War of the Spider Queen novels in the shops at all. Nor the Return of the Archwizards! I have to order 99% of FR novels thru Amazon, which means waiting months until there are enough to warrant the shipping costs!
FR authors, PLEASE look after your interest in your novels and get on to WotC about this........ your novels are NOT getting to their audience and your fans. This is very frustrating for myself and no doubt many other fans.
WotC need to sort this problem out, its not getting any better and is damaging to the Realms. I should have to hunt for their products, it should be there, waiting for me. White Wolf do it, so do many other publishers, I can pick up their products the very same week it was released...... whats WotC excuse?!?
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Lord Rad
"What? No, I wasn't reading your module. I was just looking at the pictures"
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Bookwyrm
Great Reader
USA
4740 Posts |
Posted - 29 Jan 2003 : 06:01:55
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| I think it might be because Americans are so centralized and isolationist. They don't pay much attention to the world unless it affects them directly -- i.e., Iraq and NATO. The most recent non-Middle East international story I've seen here on the nightly news was a mention that bananas are likely to get more expensive. I have to wait up until midnight to get the BBC on either the radio or one of the public broadcast channels if I want a world view. |
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Mumadar Ibn Huzal
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 29 Jan 2003 : 07:58:14
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Rad, could it be that it is linked to the UK distributor and not WotC? I recently went to visit a bookstore in Budapest to look for FR products. To my great surprise I found them ... in Hungarian ... no English copies. Some of the novels relatively recent for translated products...
Guess I'll have to look for another store to find the english versions...
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lowtech
Learned Scribe
USA
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Posted - 29 Jan 2003 : 15:38:42
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Originally posted by Bookwyrm
I think it might be because Americans are so centralized and isolationist. They don't pay much attention to the world unless it affects them directly -- i.e., Iraq and NATO. The most recent non-Middle East international story I've seen here on the nightly news was a mention that bananas are likely to get more expensive. I have to wait up until midnight to get the BBC on either the radio or one of the public broadcast channels if I want a world view.
Let's not start real world political debates, those create tension and can go on forever (take it from a Political Science major). Its unrelated to decisions made by private corporations, anyway. |
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