How come so many Adventure Paths don't have Hardcover collections?

[permafrost777]

I'm trying to collect all Hardcover editions of 1e and 2e Adventure Paths. Some really good ones like Carrion Hill, Age of Ashes and so many more do not have a collected version with all 6 paths and it's very hard to find them all. Some were made though into hardcovers, others no. Is there a reason for this?

[James Jacobs]

Because the work to create one of these, particularly if it's work that involves updating the Adventure Path to a new edition, is not insignificant and Paizo isn't a large enough company that we can take people off our ongoing lines to update older content like this all the time. That, plus customer interest, our own interest, printer and warehouse capacity, stock levels of existing product, and more help to ensure that the rate at which we are currently producing hardcover compilations is pretty much what we can do.

[permafrost777]

Cool, thanks for explaining. Was surprised to see Carrion Hill not make it to HC back in the day. And the others as well..was just wondering.