CelestialDawn wrote...
Where are the reprints by Shindo L?
Metamorphosis by Shindo L, paperback..
and TSF Monogatari by Shindo L... this has been out of stock for years now. What is even happening?
Metamorphosis Paperback will be available for sale by March of next year (at the latest).
As for other reprints, we are definitely in need of a lot of great titles. My department with books has been working very hard this year "normalizing" itself with the new printer that we started working with at the end of 2023. While we were able to get a number of things printed this year, the process definitely needed help. It's a big undertaking for a printer to understand the exact needs, and I'm confident that we have the process down. We have a few batches of books going right now and the process has been much quicker and painless as we understand what each side needs to move more efficiently.
Right now my priority is catching up with our new releases. As I'm sure most of you have felt, the time length to receive a book from preorder is
long.
My goal for next year is to have all 2024 books in production by May 2025. That means that by October at the latest all 2024 titles should be in the hands of customers. This won't happen all at once, as we are going to be steadily supplying projects each month to keep books in different stages of production.
That means during 2025 by the end of the year I actually anticipate getting to begin working on 2026 titles before they even become available for preorder, which sounds wild - but it's something that I'm very excited about. My top priority is lowering the waiting window between preorder and release.
As for reprints, because I'm aggressively going to be tackling getting caught up next year now that the system is in place, reprints will be few in between aside from some of the biggest sellers, but it won't be until May/June 2025 that you see more than 1 reprint being worked on a month.
I think it's important for us to have a healthy flow of books coming in that people have paid for in order to minimize the wait time, and I want to prioritize that for the customers and my team has a full timeline laid out on exactly how we want to tackle that for the coming year. I know it's had to be frustrating, and hopefully in the coming months people will be able to see the flow that is happening.
Thanks everyone for all your support, I'm excited to make more and more porn available to you all!