Haven't read it yet (I still have to get through Tattooine Ghost and Refugee, and I havent even touched them) and probably won't for some time, but I did skim it. Anyone else read it yet?
(Interesting comments on Windu's Jedi capabilities, but it seems to follow the VD2 definition for blasters, among other details.)
AOTC Novel: Shatterpoint
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Can't you just read it in the store?
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Wizards of the Coast used to have its own franchise. Maybe they do. Not in my town though.
The guy at the store claimed they were killed by the “intrinsic costs” of their own merchandise. As he explained it, nobody wants to pay $40.00 to play the newest version of Dungeons & Dragons. Hell, they couldn’t even give some of those books away. I heard that even their 70% off “Going Out of Business” sale was a major bust. Even when the store sold them at the lowest prices possible for meaningful profit, nobody could account for the fact that the “base” manufacturing cost was so high. Between full-color pages, CGI, and hard-bound covers, the books averaged $25.00 or more out of the factory. The core books and larger modules sold for about $39.99 at least if you found them someplace that didn’t make a living off the genre – Barnes & Nobles, for instance. And now the trend is spreading. I walked into Borders booksellers today and got a price check on ‘Shatterpoint,’ the newest Mace Windu novel. Even with huge-type font and nothing in color but the dust-jacket, it came to over $30.00 with tax. Why? A hard-cover book shouldn’t run more than $19.99 – and that’s if you want me to call you a highway robber under my breath as I walk out of your store unable to eat for the next twenty-four hours as a result of skimp spending. Well, you know what I mean.
Anybody else have any opinions? Role playing items I can understand. But hard-cover text?
The guy at the store claimed they were killed by the “intrinsic costs” of their own merchandise. As he explained it, nobody wants to pay $40.00 to play the newest version of Dungeons & Dragons. Hell, they couldn’t even give some of those books away. I heard that even their 70% off “Going Out of Business” sale was a major bust. Even when the store sold them at the lowest prices possible for meaningful profit, nobody could account for the fact that the “base” manufacturing cost was so high. Between full-color pages, CGI, and hard-bound covers, the books averaged $25.00 or more out of the factory. The core books and larger modules sold for about $39.99 at least if you found them someplace that didn’t make a living off the genre – Barnes & Nobles, for instance. And now the trend is spreading. I walked into Borders booksellers today and got a price check on ‘Shatterpoint,’ the newest Mace Windu novel. Even with huge-type font and nothing in color but the dust-jacket, it came to over $30.00 with tax. Why? A hard-cover book shouldn’t run more than $19.99 – and that’s if you want me to call you a highway robber under my breath as I walk out of your store unable to eat for the next twenty-four hours as a result of skimp spending. Well, you know what I mean.
Anybody else have any opinions? Role playing items I can understand. But hard-cover text?