Anyone know the Trek lineup for 2011? I know there's a link to it somewhere but I don't remember where it is.
2011 Lineup
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You may be thinking of the Upcoming Productions section of MemoryAlpha. 
Oooh, cool.
You may be thinking of the Upcoming Productions section of MemoryAlpha.
Books are productions now?
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Seems like a much sparser schedual than we're used to. Granted there are two releases in April, but nothing at all in February, June, or Septemeber. You'd figure June and September (at least September) would have a Deep Space Nine or Titan novel. Or maybe the beginning of another Lit Crossover.
Also, IDW has been pretty stingy with their upcoming release schedual. We know what's goin on through Feb, then only some vague idea of a few more entries by John Byrne someday. That's a far cry from their old pattern of planning lots of stuff out months and months in advance.
Also, IDW has been pretty stingy with their upcoming release schedual. We know what's goin on through Feb, then only some vague idea of a few more entries by John Byrne someday. That's a far cry from their old pattern of planning lots of stuff out months and months in advance.
February
- Pocket ENT mass-market reprint, Beneath the Raptor's Wing.
September
- Mass-market reprint of Blind Man's Bluff.
That one isn't scheduled for September anymore. If S&S' site is to be believed it has been rescheduled to January 2012, which makes sense given the delay of the TPB release. Pocket's decisions are stupid sometimes, but they aren't stupid enough to release the reprint less then half a year after the original release.
And yet to count reprints as new releases would mean there were two blank spots somewhere in the past. The end result is the same. Not as much is coming out lately as there used to be.
This far in advance, the schedule can't be assumed to be carved in stone. New things could still be added.
It looks like there's no release in June, but that's because each month's release actually comes on the last Tuesday of the previous month (or usually well before). So, when it says Children Of The Storm is released on 31 May, that means it's "the June release". As soon as Declassified gets a specific release date, it'll appear in June.
But yeah, February and September are annoying.
But yeah, February and September are annoying.
They print a book in TP only to release it again as an MM. Guess Pocket likes pissing money away.
How is that "pissing money away," Marc? Pocket is taking two whacks at the consumer's wallet. If the reader didn't pick it up in trade, they have a second chance in mass market, and the market willing to buy a mass-market is larger than the market willing to buy the trade. If anything, for Pocket the second whack is mostly found money; the writing and editorial costs should be billed to the original printing, leaving production costs (resetting type, that sort of thing).
I have to admit, I'm not terribly thrilled with this schedule. I'm really hoping that Pocket adds a few titles to the list to fill in some of the gaps. I was disappointed with 2010's release schedule (I've been waiting all year long for Typhon Pact) and it seems like 2011's won't have too much for me, either.
If the market for mass market is larger then the trade market, why not just print in mass the first time around. It's most probably cheaper to do anyway.
They are for different sections on the market, different demographics. Some SF readers and libraries only buy trades/hardcovers. Some ST collectors only buy MMPBs.
Why did Pocket start doing hardcovers in the first place? Because "Spock's World" created quite a bit of excitement that ST tie-in fiction had finally moved upmarket. Had "come of age". It was a really exciting time. "Spock's World" was bought and read by people who'd never picked up a ST novel before. Some libraries refuse to stock MMPBs. Some people buying books as gifts prefer the size/weight of a hardcover or trade. As I said, they are for different sections on the market, and different demographics.
