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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kronovan" data-source="post: 9627545" data-attributes="member: 6775134">Similar to what FitzTheRuke said about GW; many TTRPG books and games from the EU and UK reach Canada after being distributed to the USA first. It's based upon convenience and economy of scale. EU and UK publishers just ship to the bigger USA market and a USA distributor takes care of Canadian distribution.  Of course it hasn't worked well in many cases, with resulting CDN prices being unreasonably high or worse - products not being available in Canadian LGS.  I can no longer count on my fingers the number of UK or Euro TTRPGs I've been unable to source in Canada and after discovering steep shipping costs from a USA store, just gave up on the idea of buying it. So yes, IMO this will be made worse with the new tarrifs.However, If UK and Euro changed the system (Mongoose Publishing seems to be), to either distribute directly to Canada or make direct shipping less costly, things could improve.  Perhaps these tarrifs might be a motivator for such companies to change the process.I'm old enough to remember the days before free(er) trade, when big Publishers (USA & UK) had the corporate branch system. Those Canadian branches would take care of the printing and distribution in the Canadian market.So here's my food for thought, or maybe more of a question to ponder...is a POD system in which books are printed in-country, possibly a solution? It would no doubt require some retooling for some Printers and maybe acquiring new skills. I see this as a sort of modern equivalent of the corporate branch system. I imagine it working like the printed book+PDF purchasing options on drivethru, but the printing and shipping being done in-country. The bigger question, is what sort of tariffs will we see on digital books like PDFs? If they're high, it'll hinder the affordability of in-country POD. I can't imagine those tariffs though, will be as high as those slapped on physical products that cross multiple borders.[Edit] I read some posters discussing STLs for miniatures earlier. I don't know what an STL is, but am I right in assuming/guessing that an STL is to 3D printing what a digital document or PDF are to POD books? If so, then I agree that's a likely direction the minis biz will be moving in.</blockquote>

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