Pocket edition out of stock?

[Cowboy]

Is the pocket edition sold out already?

I ordered a copy in december from Infinity Games and it's listed as "Out of Stock: This item is on order, but we do not have a fixed date for restock.".

Are reprints coming soon?

 

[alex_greene]

I went up to Fan Boy 3 in Manchester, hoping that they'd have one in stock. Turns out they'd never seen a single copy of it.

 

[lastbesthope]

If it is I hope they check the 'x' are all in the 2nd print run :lol:

LBH

 

[MongooseMatt]

Is the pocket edition sold out already?

No, we have learned how many Traveller books sell

It is likely the distributor has temporarily run dry.

 

[DigitalMage]

Matt - will you be bringing some Traveller Pocket books to Conception?

 

[MongooseMatt]

I went up to Fan Boy 3 in Manchester, hoping that they'd have one in stock. Turns out they'd never seen a single copy of it.

They had copies delivered to them on the 16th - might be worth another trip!

 

[MongooseMatt]

Matt - will you be bringing some Traveller Pocket books to Conception?

We should have our full range at Conception (people keep ordering Dragon Warrior's Sleeping Gods in an effort to keep it out of stock, but we'll even try to have that in!).

 

[DigitalMage]

We should have our full range at Conception

Great news! I hope to buy Traveller, Traveller Pocket Book, Traveller Babylon 5.

I assume RuneQuest Deluxe Pocket Book won't be available by then will it?

 

[MongooseMatt]

Great news! I hope to buy Traveller, Traveller Pocket Book, Traveller Babylon 5.

I assume RuneQuest Deluxe Pocket Book won't be available by then will it?

Actually, it will be

However, the Universe of B5 won't - still polishing off a few things.

 

[Cowboy]

Is the pocket edition sold out already?

No, we have learned how many Traveller books sell

It is likely the distributor has temporarily run dry.

Please throttle the distributors for me and tell them to order more.

 

[DigitalMage]

I assume RuneQuest Deluxe Pocket Book won't be available by then will it?

Actually, it will be

However, the Universe of B5 won't - still polishing off a few things.

Brilliant! I will be sure to pick up a copy Most of my convention spends seem to go to Mongoose - at Conception last year I bought Slaine, at Continuum I bought RQ MOnsters, Magic, Cults 1 & 2 of Glorantha.

Maybe some day I will get to play a game of RuneQuest

 

[alex_greene]

I received my copy yesterday, courtesy of Fan Boy 3, Manchester. The other two main FLGS in Manchester, Forbidden Planet and Travelling Man, were similarly well stocked with MGT sourcebooks - though they didn't have the Pocket Book.

 

[Cowboy]

My order shipped yesterday so Matt won't have to throttle anybody after all.

Although, of course, he might want to do it anyway just to stay in shape.

 

[GypsyComet]

Please throttle the distributors for me and tell them to order more.

Since a couple of the big distributors have trouble believing that *anything* more than six months old is still in print, a good throttling might be just what they need.

 

[kristof65]

Please throttle the distributors for me and tell them to order more.

Since a couple of the big distributors have trouble believing that *anything* more than six months old is still in print, a good throttling might be just what they need.

Well, in their defense, that tends to be true for a lot game related items from smaller companies.

 

[GypsyComet]

Maybe, but when the distributors get into the practice of equating "we don't have any" with "out of production" without bothering to check with the manufacturer, they are failing as a distributor.

 

[kristof65]

Maybe, but when the distributors get into the practice of equating "we don't have any" with "out of production" without bothering to check with the manufacturer, they are failing as a distributor.

Oh, agreed. I'm honestly of the opinion that the standard distribution method needs to change to accomodate our hobby.

 

[GypsyComet]

I'm honestly of the opinion that the standard distribution method needs to change to accomodate our hobby.

Or change *back*. Prior to the advent of Magic the Gathering, they seemed to have a grasp on this industry, as most of them had arisen from it. The mad scramble that was 93-95 caused so many to merge or go out of business that the connection to the gaming industry was lost. The biggest games distributor in the US is run by a comic distributor. In the comics distribution biz, more than six months old is waste paper. When that attitude was mapped onto the game industry, companies that had been struggling already (due to the MtG craze taking *all* of the distribution cashflow, and many gaming magazines disappearing) were being accused of having gone out of business, or dropped games that had been successful. Only the advent of the Web prevented a massive die-off, as these companies no longer had to depend on the distribution network for news and advertising flow.

A lot of companies DID die off, but we would have lost many more had there not been that alternative.

 

[kristof65]

yeah, my games company suffered from that whole debacle, as we released our first products that same year Magic hit. Two good games (and admittedly, several more sucky ones) in development never got a chance thanks to that.