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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9692280" data-attributes="member: 86653">There are lots and lots of factors involved. For a short-run print (up to about 5k) of hardbacks it can take 5-6 weeks, depending, just to print and bind the things. The more you print, the longer it takes. There's also printer's proofs, the cards, the card box, and the slip cover to consider. Plus assembly. Then there's shipping. They're printing in China so it takes awhile to ship to the EU and US. This is probably why Australia got books months ahead of time. There's also the printer's schedule to consider. They're a business so don't like to stand around doing nothing. They'll schedule printing various projects to keep things steady and give time to perform maintenance on the machines. So it all depends on when DP can get back into the schedule for a second printing. One issue this can cause it variation in the product. Even if the same printer using the same machines prints your stuff for the second go around, there will be variation from the first. Using different machines at the same printer increases the variation. Using a different printer cranks that up. Considering the waves of books hitting distribution it's likely they did a big print run and are simply pushing them out as fast as they can. You allot a certain amount to go to different places. Ship these 5k here, those 5k there, etc. So when that allotment runs out, that place is sold out. As new shipments come in, they get allotted and sent to different distributors. It mostly looks like demand was wildly higher than DP ever considered possible. So they didn't print enough books and will be scrambling for months to fill demand. I just hope it's not a fad or FOMO that dries up because that's dangerous for publishers. I've seen a few publishers fold because a book was more popular than they expected and they rushed to print a bunch more only for the fad to pass before the new printing was available so they were stuck with thousands or tens of thousands of books they couldn't sell. That's one reason Amazon does so well, quite a few local game stores aren't that friendly.</blockquote>

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