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Armando Milicevic on Cold Cut Maybe Already Abandoning the DM
posted July 12, 2007
 

While Cold Cut is promising that business will continue as usual, their dwindling stock is making me to suspect otherwise.

As someone who in the past has relied on Cold Cut in keeping perennial sellers like Blankets, Maus, or Persepolis on our shelves at all times, I now have to look elsewhere for those books, because Cold Cut isnʼt listing them anymore (also gone is a significant portion of Top Shelf's catalogue, not to mention several publishers who seem to have been removed completely).

According to the glossary of terms found on their website, items not listed in their inventory

* have not yet been released, or have not yet arrived at Cold Cut, or
* are permanently out of print from the publisher, or
* are no longer offered by Cold Cut, or
* have not and will not be offered by Cold Cut, or
* do not exist

And a simple process of elimination, and the fact that there haven't been any notable additions to their inventory since May, lead me to believe that they may have already given up on meeting the demands of the marketplace. Which, of course, is really depressing, because who do I get my books from now? Oh, right...