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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lady Dragon" data-source="post: 266064" data-attributes="member: 3453">80+ companies? D20 collapse? No sorry it's not going to happen.Because you see first of all although there might be 80+ companies on paper in reality there are far fewer.First of all Half of the 80 or 40 have never published a print product either because they are exclusive to PDF's or they are really taking there time to come out with there first product.So that leaves us with 40(approximately) actual print publishers.Of the remaining 40 five have not put out a product in nearly a year so we can assumed that they are either already out of the buisness or not very serious about it.We are down to 35 of these 10(approximately) have put out only 1-2 products and at the rate of 1 product a year I'd hardly call them a threat to D20.So now we are down to 25 companies,and I'm afraid we need to mark off another 5 companies for incredible slowness for example Privateer press will only release 1 product this year.These companies generally put out good work but they are strictly part time companies run mostly as hobbies by there owners who are happy as long as they don't lose money so I doubt they are going anywhere unless the owner get bored with his hobby.So ultimately that leaves us with only 20 serious D20 companies, many of which existed before D20 did and will continue to exist regardless of what D20 does.Will any of these 20 go under? It's possible if they are poorly managed or if there products are inferior.Will there be changes to the existing companies? Sure we already seen the first merger with Mystic Eye and Thunderhead and more are certainly possible.Will more companies join the fray as serious publishers?Again yes at least a couple will but I wouldn't expect that many.Keep in mind that they don't really have to sell that many copies to make a profit so as long as they keep there expenses down and the quality up most of these companies will be fine.As for duplicate books for example everone seems to be doing Dwarf books this month.Fans of Dwarves will probably buy more than one anyhow.Even if there is a weeding out it will come very slow and we are more likely to lose companies because there owner found a better job elsewhere than we are to bankruptcy.</blockquote>

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