It could be supply issue, printing issues, last minute rewrites, the work of a demon with an unspeakable name. It was rather vague, but the email dndbeyond (who is now wotc) stated too much demand for the physical copy and they just didn't make enough gosh darn it. Which i kinda scoff at, because it seems more niche than a core rules book and they haven't had issues printing (or reprinting) those.
"Too much demand" means "more than we expected", not "more than some other book". If you expect to sell 10,000 of book A and 2,000 of book B, and you get 3,000 orders for book B, you have a problem even though 3,000 < 10,000 (all numbers pulled out of my hat).
I cannot go too much detail into my job, but there is a massive supply chain issue in my industry. I am near the tail end of the supply chain so I do not know the exact specifics too far upstream, but I can certainly see the effects. I mostly deal with other businesses and my boss can pull some strings to get hard to find products, but if you are just an average consumer and you want a product that is in high demand, you are shit out of luck. From what I know about my immediate suppliers, there are huge backlogs due to a lack of parts, and for some manufacturers there is also shortage of labor too. From what I read on the news, there is also a huge spike in commidity prices, so not only are raw materials more expensive, rising energy costs has huge impact on transportation since you have to ship things between businesses AND within businesses (some businesses have multiple warehouses/locations and need to ship parts back and forth between stores). We also rely a lot on trucking companies and FedEx, and we have been experiencing massive delays from them a few months ago due to labor shortage (first two months of the year were horrible), and their deliveries have not been reliably on time until about a month ago.
For Hasbro, while I am not familiar with the printing industry, I am pretty sure they rely on trucks like most businesses do, and rising fuel prices and lack of drivers is pushing transportation costs really high. From rudimentary Googling, wood pulp and paper prices also sky rocketed last year due to the world economy opening back up, so I guess we should not be surprised if Wizards decides to raise the price of their books in the near future. While I do not think a rise in price will necessarily cause delays, if they have issues sourcing raw materials, parts, and workers, then yeah, they are going to have delays.
I work adjacent to the printing industry. There's been a paper supply issue from basically the beginning of COVID (remember the toilet paper shortage? Efforts to mitigate that affected other paper products, and it snowballed from there). There was a point around Christmas where Europe basically ran out of paper to print books on. There was also a toner shortage in 2021. And the paper shortage means not just paper for the book, but the cardboard boxes the books are shipped in. Shipping container backups have also not fully resolved.
"Too much demand" means "more than we expected", not "more than some other book". If you expect to sell 10,000 of book A and 2,000 of book B, and you get 3,000 orders for book B, you have a problem even though 3,000 < 10,000 (all numbers pulled out of my hat).
I cannot go too much detail into my job, but there is a massive supply chain issue in my industry. I am near the tail end of the supply chain so I do not know the exact specifics too far upstream, but I can certainly see the effects. I mostly deal with other businesses and my boss can pull some strings to get hard to find products, but if you are just an average consumer and you want a product that is in high demand, you are shit out of luck. From what I know about my immediate suppliers, there are huge backlogs due to a lack of parts, and for some manufacturers there is also shortage of labor too. From what I read on the news, there is also a huge spike in commidity prices, so not only are raw materials more expensive, rising energy costs has huge impact on transportation since you have to ship things between businesses AND within businesses (some businesses have multiple warehouses/locations and need to ship parts back and forth between stores). We also rely a lot on trucking companies and FedEx, and we have been experiencing massive delays from them a few months ago due to labor shortage (first two months of the year were horrible), and their deliveries have not been reliably on time until about a month ago.
For Hasbro, while I am not familiar with the printing industry, I am pretty sure they rely on trucks like most businesses do, and rising fuel prices and lack of drivers is pushing transportation costs really high. From rudimentary Googling, wood pulp and paper prices also sky rocketed last year due to the world economy opening back up, so I guess we should not be surprised if Wizards decides to raise the price of their books in the near future. While I do not think a rise in price will necessarily cause delays, if they have issues sourcing raw materials, parts, and workers, then yeah, they are going to have delays.
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I work adjacent to the printing industry. There's been a paper supply issue from basically the beginning of COVID (remember the toilet paper shortage? Efforts to mitigate that affected other paper products, and it snowballed from there). There was a point around Christmas where Europe basically ran out of paper to print books on. There was also a toner shortage in 2021. And the paper shortage means not just paper for the book, but the cardboard boxes the books are shipped in. Shipping container backups have also not fully resolved.
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