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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 6222795" data-attributes="member: 59082">Just to clarify, in the OP I wasn't suggesting reducing the number of books published, but reducing the number of hardcovers to maybe one per season. As [MENTION=37579]Jester Canuck[/MENTION] implied, greater pleasure comes from delayed gratification. One really high quality 320-page book every three months is far more desirable than three mediocre 160-page books in that same span, that end up having about the same word-count. Now maybe WotC has felt, in the past at least, that its better to sell say, 3 million $30 books than 1 million $40 books, but in actually not only will they sell more books if they create higher quality products, but it is more sustainable in the long-term to create higher quality products because it keeps the fan-base healthy.So I would suggest one hardcover per quarter, plus other products - softcovers, box sets, modules, etc - sprinkled inbetween. You still want at least one new product coming out per month. But the point of the original post was to make hardcovers special again - longer, higher quality, and more meaningful. 4e really lost sight of this.</blockquote>