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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arnwyn" data-source="post: 3190298" data-attributes="member: 7701">[sblock]Thanks - it was nice. I did put information of use - I think what you mean is "detail that (you) want to see". But I'm not going to bother going into that - my original response was simply a nice little aside to simply point out that the "ask your government" comment isn't really correct. People can "refute" if they want to (though obviously no one has), but it doesn't really matter. *shrug*As for some (basic) answers (I'm not doing the research again):"I don't see anything that indicates WotC gets the money": If WotC is considered the publisher, then they do. My local paper (McNally is from here) went into some of the details at the time. I said as much in the old post.How Cdn stores can discount: Beats me, but some do. As I alluded to in the old post, hardcovers are discounted more often than softcovers; also, certain stores discount certain books. For example, the larger book retailers will discount hardcover novels fairly often, but never D&D books. Conversely, the LGSs in my area (though from posts at ENWorld, not others) give us a much better rate than what's listed on the D&D book. It is likely due to the booksellers purchasing at a moment in time in which the exchange rate in Canada is fairly high, and purchasing at the US price - thus resulting in a lower cost for the booksellers than what the printed Cdn price says. These savings are then passed on to consumers in Canada (for whatever reason - that business decision I'm not privy to). In other words, Cdn retailers aren't (necessarily) purchasing at the higher (listed book) price.[/sblock] Yeah, I don't blame you. Good to hear about Eberron - hopefully there were some 'lessons learned' when it comes to novels in that setting.I am totally with you there. I suspect that the novel reading population doesn't really care about "what's happening", though. They just see "Forgotten Realms" and buy it because they've liked other "Forgotten Realms" books. What we consider to be lame 'RSEs' might be exciting to the casual buyer. (Just a suspicion, though. I do know many complete non-gamers who buy FR novels just like others buy Tom Clancy novels - they aren't even aware that FR is some sort of game world. Whether that's representative or not is beyond me...)</blockquote>

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