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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cam Banks" data-source="post: 1779544" data-attributes="member: 3817">WOTC has failed to penetrate the book market in New Zealand. Here in the USA, you can pick up WOTC and White Wolf products in almost every mall bookstore or standalone bookstore like Barnes & Noble or Borders, in addition to gaming stores. In New Zealand, not only are gaming stores rare as hen's teeth, but the mall stores don't stock gaming products at all like they used to.I went back recently to Auckland (I'm an ex-pat New Zealander) and the only place I saw game books was in small gaming stores I had to work hard to find. I used to run a gaming store in Auckland (Mark One Comics & Games, in Takapuna) during the 90's and back then it was still possible to buy TSR's material in places like Whitcoulls, but it was a dying industry. We had to charge an incredible amount of money for the books we sold - our distributor, who was conveniently the same company that we bought the franchise from, made a killing off the consumer and off us.I really wish the market responded more in NZ than it does. There can't be much money to be made under the current climate - and I know there are still thousands of gamers in Auckland alone. But the price is prohibitive.Cheers,Cam</blockquote>