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Should WotC buy a Fantasy Novel Publisher like Tor next?
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<blockquote data-quote="gyor" data-source="post: 7843935" data-attributes="member: 6670153"><p>WotC used to publish their own novels at one time, but the guy before Chris Cocks, decided WotC wasn't in the business of novels, ignoring the hundreds of novels published by the company for D&D and MtG alone, and got WotC out of the Novel publishing business altogther, after hollowing out the staff required, like Editors.</p><p></p><p>This left Chris Cocks who came in after having to deal with that mess, he was left having to fix that, so he went looking for a publisher to make a deal with, but there where no takers. Now Salvatore was determined and while isn't one of the best writers for FR, he is the most popular, and he managed to make his own deal WotC and Harper Collins. </p><p></p><p> Now MtG side they rescently started making their own side deals for Novels with other companies like the War of the Spark with Del Rey.</p><p></p><p> Now if WotC buys an up and coming Indie Fantasy Publisher (going after a bigger company was a mistake on my part), the hypothetical Tuque Games of Fantasy Novel publishing if you will, that comes with equiptment, staff like trained and experienced editors, deals with authors, exciting IPs that have potential, but that need broader promotion to blow up big. </p><p></p><p> We've seen with the aquistion of Tuque Games and the opening of the Texas WotC office whose purpose is developing NEW IPs, that WotC over the last 5 years of major success and profits and growth has made WotC more ambitious, they clearly have a huge plans for expanding. I mean they just gained 55 new employees and that is growing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gyor, post: 7843935, member: 6670153"] WotC used to publish their own novels at one time, but the guy before Chris Cocks, decided WotC wasn't in the business of novels, ignoring the hundreds of novels published by the company for D&D and MtG alone, and got WotC out of the Novel publishing business altogther, after hollowing out the staff required, like Editors. This left Chris Cocks who came in after having to deal with that mess, he was left having to fix that, so he went looking for a publisher to make a deal with, but there where no takers. Now Salvatore was determined and while isn't one of the best writers for FR, he is the most popular, and he managed to make his own deal WotC and Harper Collins. Now MtG side they rescently started making their own side deals for Novels with other companies like the War of the Spark with Del Rey. Now if WotC buys an up and coming Indie Fantasy Publisher (going after a bigger company was a mistake on my part), the hypothetical Tuque Games of Fantasy Novel publishing if you will, that comes with equiptment, staff like trained and experienced editors, deals with authors, exciting IPs that have potential, but that need broader promotion to blow up big. We've seen with the aquistion of Tuque Games and the opening of the Texas WotC office whose purpose is developing NEW IPs, that WotC over the last 5 years of major success and profits and growth has made WotC more ambitious, they clearly have a huge plans for expanding. I mean they just gained 55 new employees and that is growing. [/QUOTE]
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