Two gaming stores in London have a single copy of the Monster burner each and no copies of the character burner. One lot told me its very hard to get hold of, took 3 months to get a hold of one copy of the character burner. I'm not sure what your distribution model is but this might be worth taking a look at.
I've encountered this. The problem seems to be that some UK distributors only order when the requests from retailers hit a certain level, until they do they claim the book is "unavailable" or "difficult to get", whereas all they really need to do is phone Key20 and get a new order shipped out. To be honest I reckon it's cos they're used to the standard "peak and fade" style of publishing, rather than the slow burn (he he) of BW and are trying to avoid overstock.
-Matt
Quote from: contracycle on September 01, 2005, 07:02:00 AM
Two gaming stores in London have a single copy of the Monster burner each and no copies of the character burner. One lot told me its very hard to get hold of, took 3 months to get a hold of one copy of the character burner. I'm not sure what your distribution model is but this might be worth taking a look at.
Don't let whiny retailers get in your way. When they start the "it's hard..." tell them "the Burning Wheel is carried by Esdevium" (http://www.esdeviumgames.com/) They ordered 42 copies at the beginning of August.
hope that helps.
-Luke
Game stores are notoriously lazy when it comes to ordering anything that isn't "corporate." Even if it's clearly a "done deal" where the sale of the game is concerned. They have several stock excuses, my favorite of which is "oh, that game's out of print." LOL. Whatever. I was told by a game store once that TROS (my game) was out of print; another told me that distribution couldn't get it, etc.
Esdivium, it happens, is one of the very best distributors out there. In the future I might skip working with stateside distributors, but I'll always work with Esdivium.
Jake