And CGL does not even own Shadowrun, it leases the intellectual property from Topps. Many SR writers are quitting, have already quit, or have handed in notices contingent on demands which - word on the street - will not be met. Beyond that, the freelancers have not been paid, and some of them are withholding copyright until they are - meaning that even a tiny print run of these new materials is simply not possible. The writing is there, but the printing costs are not.
There simply is not the startup cash to bring upcoming books like the SR4 sixth world almanac or corporate guide forward. The tiny amount of drachmas that are left in the coffers are being used to print up tiny print runs of books that have sold through - another 3,000 books of Runner's Companion for example (~$15,000 to start up, maybe $30-40k towards paying creditors if it sells out). Which is a bad thing, because it means that even if there was a complete book printed and ready to sell, even a total and rapid sell through would not pull the company out of the financial hole it is in - and the shortfall means that it does not have the cash on hand to start the ball rolling with a new major printing. A book like that isn't actually taking home half a million in profits. And while it eventually sold to distributors at ~$15 a book (a total take home of $750,000), it did so over a period of three years, during which time they were paying interest on loans and paying for storage, and advertisement and so on and so forth. A print run of say, 50,000 books (like the print run of Runner Havens) would cost somewhere between $150,000 and $250,000 to print and ship to distributors. It costs several dollars to print a book even when the pdfs are finished and ready for publication. And decide they presumably will.īut what that means for Catalyst as a company is pretty bad.
Whether that is actually true or not is - of course - a matter for the courts to decide. There will of course be lawsuits, and there are already people drawing up legal documents accusing Loren Coleman of having hired people to construct an extension on his house through the company as "freelance writers" and somehow reporting an estimated $100,000 of convention sales as $6,000. It is roughly 40% of Catalyst's entire sales for last year, missing over a three year period.
Reliable sources put this figure at roughly $850,000. This is not because Shadowrun hasn't been selling enough to cover expenses, but merely because a significant quantity of money is missing outright.
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" OK, as you may well have been able to surmise from release schedules, Catalyst Game Labs is in a bit of a financial pickle, and it is somewhat unlikely that they will retain the license to make Shadowrun products. Coleman of, among other things, embezzlement. On March 16th, 2010, Frank Trollman, a freelance writer for Shadowrun, posted the following open letter to the Dumpshock forums, accusing Loren L. I particularly recommend the Grey Death Legion novels. Now as for which BattleTech novels are worth reading, here's a good reading order list made pre-Catalyst Game Labs. That suits me fine as I find eBooks superior to print for fiction, but YMMV. If you don't go to GenCon, then you are stuck with eBooks. Catalyst Game Labs prints enough of their new fiction books to sell out within the first couple of days of GenCon each year, and that's it. The newer books such as Embers of War are only available in print at GenCon. While you're better off reading them on an eReader such as the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite or Kobo H2O, you can read them on your computer or tablet as well. Some are also available as eBooks on Kobo, Google Play Books, and DriveThruRPG, but not as many as on Amazon Kindle. All but about a dozen or so BattleTech books are available as eBooks on Amazon Kindle. well, you're probably not going to like this answer, but your best bet (as I posted in the thread above), is as eBooks. You're essentially asking two different questions.įor obtaining BattleTech books.
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