Yeah, shouldn't this thread be merged?
News Paramount selling Simon and Schuster
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Agreed, this thread is redundant. Merging.
Trek is having a moment (SNW musical #1 on iTunes!) and it's criminal that TrekLit isn't a part of that.
Well, TrekLit did do a musical first!
http://therinofandor.blogspot.com/p/how-much-for-just-planet-search-for.html
I don't find it criminal at all. I quite enjoyed this musical.
Did you even read the whole sentence that you quoted?
Two a year? Geez, some of us remember when it was two a month.
I don't expect 2 a month, but one a month is not that much to ask for.
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I'm under the impression that 12 novels a year is an unusually large publishing output for a media tie-in line.
I occured in the past, so why not after the sales situation stabilizes.
It occurred in the past because the sales warranted it. It doesn’t seem likely that they will again. To some extent the recent declines in output aren’t purely to do with sales— there are larger disruptions like pandemic paper shortages and the protracted sale of S&S— but if the line were more lucrative overall, the effect of these disruptions would have been less pronounced. 6 to 8 books a year would be the optimistic outlook at this point, I think.
I'm sure if S&S judged that they could make more money by publishing 12 novels a year, they would do just that. If they don't, that probably means market conditions have changed and customer demand is not as high as it used to be.
Yep. And it's my understanding that 6-8 books is still a pretty high output for media tie-in lines.
Even before all this business with S&S being sold began, it was made very clear that with the switch to Trek novel being trade paperback now they can't do twelve novels a year. And indeed, since the switch to trade paperback, we've never seen more than eight a year. Which as mentioned above, is still considerably more than most franchises publish a year.
Since we don’t have an “unpopular opinion about TrekLit” thread, I’m just going to drop my unpopular opinion here: with the cost of the trade paperbacks, and the general price increases we’re currently seeing in *checks notes* everything putting additional strain on one’s financial situation, I’m actually kind of glad we’re not getting 12 books per year anymore. As much as I would like to read them, and wish that the novel line could be more involved with the current Trek renaissance, I’m liking not having that additional strain on the budget.
A little more than 1 or 2 per year would still be nice, though.
I could live with 8 a year.
I'll admit, it would be nice if they did a MMPB reprint of the books several months or even a year later. There are plenty of books that do publish in both trade paperback and MMPB these days, so this isn't a completely left field idea.
