Softback only, and although I am not positive, some of them may be sold out. Check the Paizo store.
-- david
Adventure Path volumes are only available in softcover releases, but unfortunately some of the Kingmaker adventures are no longer available in print (from us—you might be able to find them used somewhere). You can still grab the PDFs here, however. :)
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I'm sure someone from Paizo will correct me if I'm wrong, but the reasoning is something like this:
If Paizo produced a compilation of every AP, it would reduce the number of people who would purchase the individual volumes. Since they would make less profit on the individual volumes due to smaller sale numbers, they might not be able to afford to produce new APs, which provide a steady revenue stream as opposed to a big hit every 6 months. Taking that step could (hypothetically) kill Paizo as a company.
Further, I believe the cost of individual softcover AP volumes would be less than the cost of a hardcover compilation by a significant margin, so they would have to charge more for them to achieve the same amount of revenue.
So, barring special cases (which the revised RotRL definitely counts as, originally being a D&D adventure and extremely popular and therefore worth updating to the Pathfinder rules, especially as an anniversary release), Paizo are unlikely to offer compilations of the APs.
I can see a case for them deciding to do so when all stocks of a particular AP have been sold (since they don't reprint them), but otherwise it makes no sense for them to do.
What Chemlak said. In short, they lose even more by doing compilations, as what keeps Paizo in business is their monthly subscriptions, and too many people would drop their subscriptions if they knew they just had to wait a bit to get a compilation.
Without the subscription income, Paizo sinks. Nothing more, nothing less.
EDIT: Aha! Found the thread. Why Paizo does not reprint. Straight from Vic Wertz himself.
Jump down to Post #10 for an explanation specifically of why they don't do compilations.
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Actually, no. It's more like they don't do compilations, except in rare circumstances.
Out of all the APs they've written, starting with Shackled City, they've only done two compilations - the Shackled City one, which I believe was done way back in the Dungeon era, and Rise of the Runelords, which was a special thing for the 10th Anniversary of Pathfinder.
It's an extremely rare exception that may or may not ever happen again. The way you worded it, "They do it but they don't anymore", implies it was a regular occurrence which has since been canceled; this is not nor has it ever been the case. I don't know the circumstances of the Shackled City compilation - that was before my time here - but nothing since then has been compiled save the RotRL Anniversary surprise. Age of Worms and Savage Tide are unfortunately out of Paizo's hands due to copyright complications, and Paizo has been rather blunt and straightforward on ALL other APs besides the one exception of RotRL not being compiled any time soon.
Also what do you mean by "out of order"?
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To add on the Orthos' post, the exceptions are also at a lower price point than the individual issues that make up the content (though less the most of the back matter content for RotR and not other Dungeon content for SC). That does not lend itself to a good business model as folks will hold out for the lower price point.
I still think they should put out compilations for all the APs, though at a somewhat inflated price point. You want it all in one cover, expect to pay for it. A $150 price point would exceed the list cost of the individual volumes by a small amount (~8.75% ... the $125 price point would be ~10% under the list for all 6 AP issues) and the advantage of subscriptions would still be intact. There would even be those of us who are subscribers who would pick up the compilations for ease of use and to have a back up copy of the core adventure content from the AP. A compilation issue is really a niche item within an niche market and should be priced as such.
It is far more likely that they will publish a brand-new "kingdom building" AP with the updated rules before reediting and reprinting Kingmaker.
Here in Italy we have it as a single volume.