>So, how come the Mongoose stuff is selling well, and
>the stuff those of us on this list actually want,
>isn't? I mean, "more expensive" can't be a selling
>point, can it? "Split up into lots of books" can't be
>it, either. It might be the system? Much easier for
>the average RPGer to get to grips with, it has to be
>said. The glossy covers? Dunno. But if we can learn
>from it, that would be good. I just have a horrible
>feeling that having some full-time employees on the
>job may have something to do with it :(
Number of publications and regularity of new books may well be part of it. Mongoose have been publishing at a pretty steady one new book per month. That gets them regularly on the new releases shelf and the shelf space of the set is now bigger than the HQ one has ever been.
Even for HQ people there's some of the Mongoose stuff which is worth buying. I got the Alydrami and Dragonnewt books recently and while I'd have preferred a HQ version there's plenty of usable stuff in them.
Now it may be just the one shop I go to but the owner regards the Mongoose RQ books as a less certain sale than HQ. That reflects the fact that several customers will buy anything for HQ but not all the RQ ones. So although he sells more books per month for RQ the average number of each book sold is lower.
-- Donald Oddy http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/
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