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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Erik Mona" data-source="post: 4707427" data-attributes="member: 2174">We've been working pretty hard to get our books into bookstores, but there are a couple of inherent challenges. The first is our frequency. We release one Adventure Path volume, one Chronicles setting product, and either a 32-page Pathfinder Module or Pathfinder Companion player's supplement every single month. Bookstores generally do not carry products with no spines, so the 32-pagers are immediately below the threshold of what most major book retailers will want to carry. Sometimes a local manager or employee is a gamer and special orders these items for their store, but mass market distribution on these items is frankly really spotty, and is not factored into our profit models in a significant way.The APs are likewise a challenge, because it is difficult to keep an entire story line in stock and, frankly speaking, the people who order books for bookstores do not know what an "Adventure Path" is, or why there are six volumes in each one, or what have you. We've been explaining this for three years, but with some buyers is is an uphill battle.What major book chain buyers want is a reasonably priced hardcover book that can be shelved "spine out". That's why the Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting hardcover is the most likely book you'll see in a Barnes & Noble and Borders. When the Core Rulebook and Bestiary come out this summer, my expectation is that they will be fairly widely available in major book chains.This is something we're working on nearly constantly. I've got two staff members half-way across the country visiting Books-a-Million (who has been great) to show off covers and sell sheets for the new game, and I imagine they have been very well received.--Erik MonaPublisherPaizo Publishing, LLC</blockquote>

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