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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JohnNephew" data-source="post: 949719" data-attributes="member: 2171">I think there are a couple of different things going on here.We're doing one of those "sales," in the form of the Penumbra Classic Adventure Bundle, which ships to distributors this week.  It has four adventures (Three Days to Kill, In the Belly of the Beast, The Tide of Years and Maiden Voyage) bundled together for $19.95 (versus $38.80 if bought separately -- almost 50% off).It's not because of 3.5, though -- it's just the natural product life cycle.  All of these adventures are 2-3 years old.  All of them have made a profit, but their ongoing rate of sales is not very high.  A lot of retailers don't want to devote shelf space to reordering old adventures like this, considering there's a flood of new releases every month, and we need the warehouse space for our own upcoming products.  So we offer this bundle as a kind of "buy two, get two free" inventory reduction sale.  It seems like a better option than just hauling most of the inventory to the recycling center to free up space.  We hope it will lure in some people who may have missed the books when they were new in stores, and maybe get some stores to restock the titles that they may not have had on their shelves for a year or two.With respect to retailer and distributor orders, it does look to me like there's some conservative ordering right now.  I don't know how much of it is that they are worried about 3.5 compatibility (probably not a very big deal) -- a bigger concern is probably cash flow.  All the core rulebooks and a huge flood of new releases at the same time is going to suck dry the retailer pocketbook.  They are probably trying to cut ordering to the bone in advance to hoard up cash for the big outlay needed to bring in the new version and the third-party material being released at the same time.</blockquote>

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