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No. The deal meant TSR was getting paid on ship rather than on sale for everything, not just fiction. The company overproduced and...

Hasbro also has limited experience with the book trade, which operates on different rules than the sale channels they are used to...

Yeah, I remember hearing that too, and being baffled by it at the time. As I recall, there was a follow-up where someone asked why...

Done, with sincere appreciation for the clarification.

Another wonderful article! For clarity and courtesy, it would be good to credit the author by her current name, Pauli Kidd, perhaps...

To put that in a larger perspective. There have been more D&D novels written than there were fantasy novels up to about 1960. Possibly...

To quote a former editor at a Q&A about the future of Dungeons & Dragons novels. Wotc was told in no uncertain terms by hasbro "you are...

Just to be clear, this is standard book industry practice with potentially successful releases--hardcover first, then paperback. TSR did...

That's not true. What killed the company was the debt TSR accrued with Random House through unwise use of an advance payment clause and...

This is the fourth in a series of articles attempting to answer the question: How much D&D stuff is there anyway? So far, we’ve looked...