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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 1563589" data-attributes="member: 63">That's sort of simplifying the matter, isn't it?  Kinda like:  Q:  We're going to run out of fossil fuel in a few decades.  How will we survive afterward?A:  Convert to renewable energy. How, if I may ask, should we raise a barrier of entry to keep newbie publishers out?  I used to think it would just be that the cost of printing would be too high, and that only folks who had surefire wins would bother.  But apparently that's not true, and a lot of stores are getting a glut of material they can't sell (kinda like back in the . . . I dunno, 80s, 90s? when all sorts of comic stores bought rather worthless 'collector editions' which were never collectible because so many were printed).Really, I might be inclined to say that small hobby stores shouldn't bother carrying big name publishers.  I mean, from a logical, broad view of the economy, why go to you FLGS to buy a WotC book for $30 when you can use your discount at Waldenbooks and get it for $27?  Sure, we all want to support our FLGS's, and if they didn't sell the big name books, they probably couldn't have a high enough profit margin to sell the small name ones.Ah, it's a conundrum.</blockquote>