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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AngusA" data-source="post: 7719062" data-attributes="member: 57758">The problem is that books that have a finite number of titles will be considered 'dead lines' by many distributors and retailers as no new material is coming out to support them. Thus they are less likely to restock the line unless it is a great seller (and after ten years of availability you might not be seeing very many sales). Whenever a new book is released for a line the company will generally see a 'bump' in orders from distributors/retailers of the back catalog of products in that line - as they have confidence the line is alive and so restock the older books to go alongside the new release. Qin hasn't had a new book for years and no further books are planned (as far as I'm aware). Doing a print run for a hardcover book with colour templates (if not entirely full colour) is expensive and you really need a minimum quantity to make it economically practical. If you could downgrade the books to black and white then it becomes a lot more viable - and of course with the softcovers you can mitigate risk by printing off smaller runs through some of the print-on-demand services as opposed to printing higher quantities through traditional full-run printers.Maybe a possible solution is to run a Kickstarter to reprint each line. That way the demand can be seen before reprinting and, if enough demand exists, maybe even persuade the publisher to look at bringing out some brand new material for it too.All the books should be available in PDF though - which is always an option until physical copies can be found. I'd actually suggest making the PDFs also available to buy as print-on-demand through drivetrhu/RPGNow like the older long out of print White Wolf and TSR/WotC titles so people can still access them if they'd like without the publisher having to risk a large inventory sitting in a warehouse.</blockquote>

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