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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mongoose_Matt" data-source="post: 1175201" data-attributes="member: 239">I have to disagree with this.  I am not calling you a liar Jim (far from it!) and I have no doubt that you have been told this - but it is not the full story.There are traditional peaks and troughs throughout thew year in this industry.  The peak in July and Jan/Feb, for example, or the fall in December and August.  I don't know how WotC are doing with their sales, 3.5 or no, but sales have not dropped across the board for every single publisher since May.  Our sales have gone up in this time period and, for the first time, we have not noticed the traditional drop in August.  There was a similar crunch at the end of last year that hurt a great many companies but again, we didn't have even a small bump - and I know we are not alone.The same applies to back catalogue sales.  I am aware of many publishers selling absoulte zero of lines after a few months but, again, we have found our back orders to be remarkably stable and it is this, more than our front-loaded releases, that make Mongoose a reliable company, from the perspective of cash flow.Things are getting very bad for some of the companies out there - as an experiment, check out the number of adverts in Dragon from d20 publishers and compare that to the same time last year.  The results may frighten you quite a bit!  This is part of the vicious cycle.  Dragon advertising is one of the most effective mediums out there but it is also hellishly expensive - so it becomes the first to be dropped when a company hits cashflow problems.  Unfortunately, that has an impact on future sales, leading the spiral downwards.However, I'll take the opportunity to say that if there are any publishers out there reading this who are in serious financial trouble, or are heading that way, give me a shout at <a href="mailto:msprange@mongoosepublishing.com">msprange@mongoosepublishing.com</a>.  We are fans of many other publishers and it would be a shame to see some disappear.  Give me a holler and we'll see if we can't work something out.</blockquote>

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