Summer nuTrek novels pulled-TrekMovie.Com

[Therin of Andor]

We don't know whether this decision has anything at all to do with "complementing the parent material." We don't know why the decision was made, and every single theory that's been offered, including that one, is pure guesswork.

Entire post is personal opinion, but I figured it was worth reminding him that there is an expectation that licensed tie-ins must always complement the parent material.

 

[Captain Robert April]

There's also a matter of getting product to the market and instilling a certain amount of confidence in your customers, and arbitrary decisions like this don't do that.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

There's also a matter of getting product to the market and instilling a certain amount of confidence in your customers, and arbitrary decisions like this don't do that.

For the hardcore readers who hang out on bulletin boards and even know that the four movie-Trek novels have been postponed, maybe. For the other large slice of the Star Trek readership pie, they know what comes out because they see it in the bookstore. For them, this summer won't destroy their confidence in the publishing line. For them, they didn't even know.

 

[Captain Robert April]

Maybe, but I suspect the percentages of hardcore fans who hang out online and casual fans who only know what shows up on the shelves is quite a bit different than what is seen in the general fan population.

 

[pookha]

did you mean to say general reading population as opposed to general fan population??

anyway this stuff isnt new.
as far back as i have been following to be published catalogs(back in the dark days they were on micro fiche) it wasnt unusual for some books to be either postponed, rescheduled or just not ever come out.

this has even been true for star trek books over the years.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Maybe, but I suspect the percentages of hardcore fans who hang out online and casual fans who only know what shows up on the shelves is quite a bit different than what is seen in the general fan population.

Paramount knows that ST novels are purchased by 1-2% of the general cinema audience. Of those 1-2%, those who follow every announcement of every licensed paragraph of every tie-in, and mark the release dates on their *ST calendars: a pretty miniscule number, a few of whom have presumably lost confidence.

* Eeek, but then it's not in mint condition!

as far back as i have been following to be published catalogs(back in the dark days they were on micro fiche) it wasnt unusual for some books to be either postponed, rescheduled or just not ever come out.

http://www.well.com/~sjroby/lostbooks.html