As many of you probably remember, a year or so ago we cancelled a number of older pre-pubs that we didn’t feel were getting enough traction to ever make it into production. In many ways, this was keeping with the spirit of the pre-pub program as a way for us to test the waters and only produce what our market is most interested in.
Going forward, we plan to continue this process but in a less dramatic way. We’ll be doing a regular evaluation of the titles and retiring those we don’t believe will ever have enough interest to get produced.
As part of this process, we plan to post a list of the titles we are going to cancel in the forums a month before we plan to take them down (we’ll probably do something with email, too). This will give folks the opportunity to give the books one last push before we retire them.
You’ll probably start to see these lists popping up in here soon, I just wanted to give you all some advanced notice so that you had a bit of context.