Ed Greenwood hat mit seinem Alias
The Hooded One auf Candlekeep ein wenig kaltes Wasser auf Wünsche und Anfragen nach einem FR - Film gekippt. Dazu ...
In theory, in a publisher made an agreement with Random House to do so, they COULD . . . but these days, unless a publisher is in Chapter 11, it's highly unlikely to happen. Make that "darned near impossible" when you factor in the attentive way in which toy companies (Hasbro) guard their brands and IPs. In other words, if Paris Designer X allowed their distributor to make "copies" of their high-end shoes or bags, they would in effect lose control over the exclusivity of that product, endangering its high price, possibly the quality of their brand (if the copies were somehow inferior), and even their profits (as the primary accounting would then reside with the distributor, not the publisher),
In short: ain't gonna happen. :}
love,
THO
Interessanterweise schrieb er auch etwas zu den Out-of-print - Büchern (und den Gründen), zu denen augenscheinlich auch recht neues MAterial gehört. Nun, mit der 4E wird diese Liste sicher noch umfangreicher ...
The "special factor" here is that Wizards of the Coast changed distributors not all that long ago, from Von Holtzbrinck (now called Macmillan) back to Random House.
Random House did not want to handle the HUGE Wizards backlist (it had never been pruned, and even included Red Steel and some other old TSR game titles), so Wizards declared a ton of stuff out of print.
In the industry, this begins with a "declaring these titles out of print; return stock of these titles within X days or you'll be stuck with them" announcement printed in Publishers Weekly. Wizards duly published that list, of dang near 100 titles as I recall, Power of Faerûn being among the most recent, and some of the early Hollow World and Known World (before it became known as Mystara) titles being among the oldest.
That's where all the early "Realms of" and Harpers series titles went.
love,
THO
Candlekeep
