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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Truename" data-source="post: 5841628" data-attributes="member: 78255">What do you base this on? Every reference I can find says that remainders are a normal part of publishing. ("Publishers predict sales as closely as they can, but they're never going to get their print runs exactly right and often end up over-printing. They'll then be unlikely to want copies of a book with dwindling sales to take up valuable warehouse space, so will sell the books on cheaply to the discount stores." <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/sep/30/remaindered.books.clive.james" target="_blank">Getting remaindered is not the end of the line | Books | guardian.co.uk</a>) Can you back up your claim?This isn't about defending 4e sales, it's about bringing facts to an overblown news item. (I agree that WotC must be dissatisfied with 4e to be bringing out a new edition so soon, and it's clear that Pathfinder is outselling 4e on Amazon, at the very least.)<a href="http://howpublishingreallyworks.com/?p=1604:" target="_blank">Remaindered Books | How Publishing Really Works</a> "most books enjoy their highest sales during the few weeks immediately after publication... When the income generated by a title is exceeded by the cost of continuing to sell it, the book is declared out of print and... remaining stocks are sold as 'remaindered books'..."<a href="http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2006/06/remainders.html:" target="_blank">http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2006/06/remainders.html</a> "just about everything is eventually remaindered..."And finally, this gem from Clive James (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/books/review/Orr2-t.html?_r=2&ref=review&oref=slogin%29:" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/books/review/Orr2-t.html?_r=2&ref=review&oref=slogin ):</a>[code]The book of my enemy has been remainderedAnd I am pleased.In vast quantities it has been remaindered.Like a van-load of counterfeit that has been seizedAnd sits in piles in a police warehouse,My enemy’s much-praised effort sits in pilesIn the kind of bookshop where remaindering occurs.Great, square stacks of rejected books and, between them, aislesOne passes down reflecting on life’s vanities,Pausing to remember all those thoughtful reviewsLavished to no avail upon one’s enemy’s book —For behold, here is that bookAmong these ranks and banks of duds,These ponderous and seemingly irreducible cairnsOf complete stiffs.[/code]Schadenfreudely yours,Truename</blockquote>

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