Hierax
Jan 16th, '04, 10:06 AM
Steve Long Wrote:
One other bit of schedule-changing news, this one not so good. Overall, we haven't been happy with the sales of the books in the Star Hero line. While SH itself has done pretty well, and the SH supplements have strong sales in comparison with many industry products, the SH books are uniformly our worst sellers. We can't afford to have a big chunk of our production lagging behind that way, so we're scaling back our plans for SH. We're going to shift down from about three books a year for SH to probably no more than one. This year, for example, we'll probably keep Worlds Of Empire in the schedule, but replace the other two planned books with something else (we'll decide exactly what at the appropriate time). If the sales situation changes in the future (no pun intended!), we'll definitely revise this plan, since we have lots of cool SH books in mind. But we can't ignore economic realities.
I'm sorry to hear that, I've enjoyed the Star Hero stuff and was hoping to see a lot more of it rather than less. Hope things turn around for it.
BTW, how is the Fantasy Hero line faring? Any danger of it being scaled back?
One other bit of schedule-changing news, this one not so good. Overall, we haven't been happy with the sales of the books in the Star Hero line. While SH itself has done pretty well, and the SH supplements have strong sales in comparison with many industry products, the SH books are uniformly our worst sellers. We can't afford to have a big chunk of our production lagging behind that way, so we're scaling back our plans for SH. We're going to shift down from about three books a year for SH to probably no more than one. This year, for example, we'll probably keep Worlds Of Empire in the schedule, but replace the other two planned books with something else (we'll decide exactly what at the appropriate time). If the sales situation changes in the future (no pun intended!), we'll definitely revise this plan, since we have lots of cool SH books in mind. But we can't ignore economic realities.
I'm sorry to hear that, I've enjoyed the Star Hero stuff and was hoping to see a lot more of it rather than less. Hope things turn around for it.
BTW, how is the Fantasy Hero line faring? Any danger of it being scaled back?