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

contracycle wrote:
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.

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