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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenobi65" data-source="post: 2227149" data-attributes="member: 1515">The reason that they *do* publish books is that they make guesses...educated guesses, in many cases, but guesses all the same.  If the guesses are low, then they end up in second printings, etc.  If the guesses are high, then retailers, distributors, and the publisher all get stuck with unsold copies.  I think you can figure out why FFG put that "Essential" pack on sale at a big discount just before they cancelled the line -- they were sitting on a bunch of unsold stock of books that were a year or two old, from an edition that the SRD no longer supported.Despite what you sense as "seemingly more interest", I think it's likely that the books beyond the Starfarer's Handbook didn't sell as well as FFG had wanted.  You say that your group continued to / continues to have new people interested in DS...but it's entirely possible that those new players were being counterweighted (or more than counterweighted) by players who bought the first book or two, and lost interest.Unless FFG ever decides to publicly release their sales data (not bloody likely), I don't think we'll ever know for sure.</blockquote>