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Originally Posted by Brad1963
Catalog titles are not flying off the shelf. It is the reason the studios are licensing them out instead of releasing themselves. Having a large quantity available is not going create stronger sales. We are not in that place anymore.
You are wrong when you say plenty of TT titles have sold out AFTER going on sale. In fact there are very few that have sold old quickly. Most of their titles have been available for a long period of time. Or at least enough time where collectors can wait to purchase them when are able to.
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Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying. Very few of their titles sold out quickly at full price. But once they started offering sales, titles such as Rains of Rachipur, Swamp Water, Bonjour Tristesse sold out all 3000 copies. Hence, my assertion that there is a market for releases such as those
but only at the right price. People will buy those titles at $10-$15, just not $30.
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Originally Posted by Brad1963
There is no reason to press thousands units of any catalog titles unless it is a specific title or genre that still sells. I'm not sure, but I would guess the 'other' labels are conservative with the number they press on certain titles. Otherwise they would lose money.
Re: TT. If they did not indicate they were limited editions, nobody would be the wiser. They based the qty on what they felt was accurate for 2011 when they began. It is now 2017 and they see that sales have been cut in half. Not for just them, but for everyone.
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Yeah, but they do. And they trumpet it quite loudly, playing on the fact that many people will panic buy if they think they're going to miss out. But more importantly, they play up the fact that if a title sells out, it's gone for good particularly as they have stated they will no longer offer encore editions. A Kino title may sell only 500 copies for all I know and that's fine. Nobody is the wiser. But some Kino titles may sell like hotcakes and if so, they print more copies and sell to meet that demand so that everyone who wants a copy can get one and without having to pay $30 for the privilege.
Hey, if Twilight Time feel that it's necessary to drop down to 1500 runs in order to sustain themselves, then that's fine. BUT, doing that AND playing up the whole "if it's sold out, it's gone for good" is NOT okay with me. There are too many other players on the scene proving that sort of business model is not necessary for them to keep feeding us that line.