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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 6757874" data-attributes="member: 8461">Which speaks to my original point: if the product was never intended to be put into a brick-and-mortar store to begin with, then it's not Kickstarter's fault. The same way a book that wouldn't exist otherwise isn't in competition with an FLGS, neither is a book that was never going to be sold in one in the first place. What competes with them are alternative retail outlets for the same products. Even leaving aside that Kickstarter isn't a retail outlet, if the products produced there aren't put into the stores to begin with, then they're not competing for the same dollars.If the goal is to get the book into physical stores, and print run costs aren't accounted for in sizes large enough to make distributors agree to do so, then that is a failure. This means that using that word is not "entirely" inappropriate, unless you're willing to say that such a thing has never, ever happened to any Kickstarter (or other crowd-funded book)....or maybe we should focus less on semantic quibbles and more on the overall point, which is that KS is not competing with brick-and-mortar stores.</blockquote>