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Message: <blockquote data-quote="breschau" data-source="post: 4121526" data-attributes="member: 52376">The very first step of sending a book to the printer is to get proofs back. There's a 2 day turn around for that and the full-run is printed. Many full-color hardback books are printed over seas (re: China) it takes about 2 months for the books to reach the States, then you have to distribute them through to the books stores, which takes a few weeks or a month. That's how you end up with books on the shelf at some stores before their release, because more often than not, if the book's on time, it's sitting in the store room waiting for release day.There's no printer in the States that can match the quality and price offered by off-shore printing. The cost of the book would nearly double if it were printed in the States.Not really. The printers are professionals who know how to do their jobs. As per above, many/most of the high-quality color books are done in China or off-shore. Next time you hit a book store, find the gardening books, and coffee table books with all the photos. 90+% of those will have been printed in China. It's industry standard.Yes. The digital pdf and the InDesign files (along with all artwork and font files) was likely sent the day they made the "at the printers" announcement. It's this kind of printing lag that you can see in publishers like Green Ronin. They release the pdf a bit ahead to catch any big mistakes (and the gamers fill threads with found typos and other mistakes), then they send it to the printer. It's really smart, because the hardcore pdf crowd partially covers the cost of printing the physical book. But, WotC doesn't want the book out as pdf yet, so we wait.</blockquote>

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