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Well, I don't care about the "easy on the wallet" argument, because paperbacks are cheap and you don't have to buy them at all. I don't think it enters into the equation. I've noticed a lot of people here read the library versions, so there are options to save the wallet.
As far as quality goes, different authors were working on different books and eras, so I don't think that really applies.
Now, one factor may be that with the cartoon series, they are backing off of writing anything to do with that time period thanks to someone not sticking to continuity. But at the same time, they have expanded greatly on the old republic storylines. So there seems to be plenty of opportunities to regularly give us new novels.
I have no idea how well these books sell, but maybe that was an issue. Maybe they felt they oversaturated the market when they were released that frequently.
All that said, I guess my hope is that the current slowdown is due to the end of the contract and Sue being replaced, and it just taking time to sort through all that. |
The end of the last contract was slow too (between NJO and LOTF if I'm not mistaken). And the editor change-over wouldn't have helped either I doubt. Especially since Sue has been doing this since the EU started (essentially).
I presume that's the major issue.
Thankfully most of the books being written now have little to do with the Clone Wars, it limits what we can do with Dark Times (for now), but pre EP1 is basically empty, post FOTJ is wide open(ish), and then theres' the war between the New Republic and Imperial Remnant that's basically been ignored in its later stages (between Ackbar and Pellaeon), the years between NJO and DN, and DN and LOTF (a full decade for those), not to speak of the old republic that they've just started on in earnet, and how about we finally see some really ancient books between Xim and the Hutts, that's been a WHILE in coming. Or something about what exactly happened with the Chiss or Ssi-Ruuk.
No shortage of stuff too do, just finding good authors for it, and not overwhelming the editors. I think that can be most of the challenge. Even a good author can only get out a couple or three books per year, and that's a challenge I'm sure. But there's not hsortage of writers who seem more than willing to.
manpower probably is a shortage to some degree, but I think the main issue is the end of the contract and staff change over.
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