maggie2

Honestly, I don't envy DH - being a publisher, especially a small one, isn't easy today; you need to make money somehow, and you need to compete somehow, and from what I can tell Scott Allie is doing pretty much what many other small publishers are doing: make sure to make enough money to be able to keep going. I do get the feeling that he is honestly a fan of a lot of what he puts out, for good and bad - but he also needs to make it in a cutthroat business. This means being a smart marketer, exploit whatever rights he can get a hold of, occasionally disappoint a few hardcore fans to win 10 times as many casual ones, etc... no wonder he can identify with Twangel. ;) That doesn't mean I like how he's handled things, or that he couldn't have done a better job, or treated the people who pay his cheques with more respect, but I do think he has a soul even if it might be in a jar somewhere. ;)