New Printing for Mongoose Books

MongooseMatt

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For the past ten months, Mongoose Publishing has been developing its own printing facility in order to take advantage of digital printing systems. Unfortunately, various problems in the system have resulted in too many books that were of below acceptable quality. While it was an ambitious endeavour, it has regrettably proved unworkable.

As of last week, Mongoose Publishing has switched production of all books to established printers based in the United States. This means that all books now ordered from Mongoose Publishing will be of the highest quality possible. We wish to apologise to all of our customers for any inconvenience caused over the past few months, and wish to assure you that our previous levels of quality should be expected at all times. Our guarantee to freely replace any faulty book remains in place.

Many of our original hardback titles have been converted to softback titles, with a corresponding drop in the cover price. The first of these titles is Magic of the Young Kingdoms, of which we have just taken delivery. It is in stock in both the UK and US right now, and is a good example of the new printing.

Other titles, such as the Bestiary of the Hyborian Age, currently being printed and expected for release in March, will remain as hardbacks.

Once again, our apologies for the disruption of the past few months, but both our printing and distribution systems have returned to their previous efficient states.
 

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I'm sorry to hear this, Matt. It was definitely ambitious and impressive-- I was really rooting for your success at "breaking the mold."

What does this announcement mean for Flaming Cobra imprints?
 

Wow, too bad this didn't work out. I thought this would have been a great model for the future.

Wulf Ratbane said:
What does this announcement mean for Flaming Cobra imprints?

I'm very interested about this. You still doing Flaming Cobra? Also, will you continue to produce full color products for the imprint?
 

Well, damn. :(

I am sorry that this did not work out - the possibilities for POD customization that you mentioned early on sounded very good indeed - being able to print short runs of 'out of print' books such as the Quintessentials would have been great.

As my own experiences with your in house printing have been mixed (World on Fire is in fine shape, Spycraft 2.0, not so much - I may need to get it replaced if the binding continues to give way) I can understand your decision, though part of me will continue to hope that you can eventually get the machines to do what you want them to do.

Good luck, either way - I would rather see you stick around for a few years, eh?

The Auld Grump

*EDIT* I have seen no examples of your paperbound books - was the system more successful in that regard than it was with hard covers?
 
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JVisgaitis said:
I'm very interested about this. You still doing Flaming Cobra? Also, will you continue to produce full color products for the imprint?

Flaming Cobra will continue as before, and colour will still be an option.
 


Well, that stinks.

Honestly though, I have been putting off picking up Conan 2ed in hopes that the issues would be worked out. Will the future printings of that title be hardback or soft? If soft, I need to go ahead and pick one up from my FLGS.
 

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