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<blockquote data-quote="Brian Compton" data-source="post: 5431915" data-attributes="member: 24898">Here's what I'd like to know: how does a retailer react to seeing the company that is #1 in the market slashing their catalog to four new products in the upcoming year?&nbsp; Does he hope people use the opportunity to go back and fill in holes in their library, or maybe try a new system?&nbsp; Or does he start to get very worried that one of his key revenue sources is going to be extremely limited this year?&nbsp; I hope DDXP is a source of happy shiny news and new product.&nbsp; But I also think that that's not likely.&nbsp; In comics, whenever big changes are afoot, the PR departments usually say over and over, &quot;Look for a big announcement at ________ Con!&quot;. But that isn't happening here.&nbsp; And sticking with comics, D&amp;D dropping to four new books total is like Marvel dropping its line to around ten titles a month.&nbsp; In a niche market like gaming or comics where even your #1 seller's numbers are laughable in comparison to other media, when #1 cuts back significantly that's painful to a seller.&nbsp; If this is a harbinger of a new business model where WotC is selling new material directly in a digital only format, I hope retailers learn to adapt quickly so that this doesn't do them in.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Brian Compton, post: 5431915, member: 24898"] Here's what I'd like to know: how does a retailer react to seeing the company that is #1 in the market slashing their catalog to four new products in the upcoming year? Does he hope people use the opportunity to go back and fill in holes in their library, or maybe try a new system? Or does he start to get very worried that one of his key revenue sources is going to be extremely limited this year? I hope DDXP is a source of happy shiny news and new product. But I also think that that's not likely. In comics, whenever big changes are afoot, the PR departments usually say over and over, "Look for a big announcement at ________ Con!". But that isn't happening here. And sticking with comics, D&D dropping to four new books total is like Marvel dropping its line to around ten titles a month. In a niche market like gaming or comics where even your #1 seller's numbers are laughable in comparison to other media, when #1 cuts back significantly that's painful to a seller. If this is a harbinger of a new business model where WotC is selling new material directly in a digital only format, I hope retailers learn to adapt quickly so that this doesn't do them in. [/QUOTE]

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