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<blockquote data-quote="charlesatan" data-source="post: 9151389" data-attributes="member: 20870">On PSI's website, it doesn't seem that they're distributing D&amp;D (they do distribute other adjacent books though such as Warhammer, Doctor Who, Numenera, etc.).The speculation mentioned by darjr is that Penguin Random House distributes to Amazon + bookstores, and Wizards of the Coast wanted to be in charge of Amazon, so Penguin Random House was not interested in distributing just a smaller piece of the pie.Supposedly Penguin Random House is not the distributor to Walmart and Target (that's a separate distributor). Would be interested to know though whether they supply B&amp;N.The issue here is that WotC already knew this months ahead of time, and they've had ample time to find a replacement. Ideally when Penguin Random House send their notice, WotC should have already had a replacement in their own press release (or should mention one immediately) if they've already arranged for someone to take over.Or maybe they're just going to eschew bookstores entirely.Having said that, the WPN link is just for hobby stores, and does not list of all of WotC's distributors.But definitely Penguin Random House was in charge of distributing to bookstores.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="charlesatan, post: 9151389, member: 20870"] On PSI's website, it doesn't seem that they're distributing D&D (they do distribute other adjacent books though such as Warhammer, Doctor Who, Numenera, etc.). The speculation mentioned by darjr is that Penguin Random House distributes to Amazon + bookstores, and Wizards of the Coast wanted to be in charge of Amazon, so Penguin Random House was not interested in distributing just a smaller piece of the pie. Supposedly Penguin Random House is not the distributor to Walmart and Target (that's a separate distributor). Would be interested to know though whether they supply B&N. The issue here is that WotC already knew this months ahead of time, and they've had ample time to find a replacement. Ideally when Penguin Random House send their notice, WotC should have already had a replacement in their own press release (or should mention one immediately) if they've already arranged for someone to take over. Or maybe they're just going to eschew bookstores entirely. Having said that, the WPN link is just for hobby stores, and does not list of all of WotC's distributors. But definitely Penguin Random House was in charge of distributing to bookstores. [/QUOTE]

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