They just lack sufficient exposure to the companies previous endeavors 
I could point out things like the multiple book groups in my area or that my daughter reads physical books daily.
There’s certainly been a huge decline in reading over the past 30 years but that will happen when there’s a mix of alternatives and other distractions, as you’ve pointed out.
I don’t think physical media will ever truly leave and I’m seeing a resurgence of it, it’s lovely.
An “art book” isn’t usually to be “read” in context of say, a paperback mystery. The purpose of these books is normally to learn about their thinking and process of creating. I have many books like this. My favorite is The Fantastic Art of Rowena, incredible. Every once in awhile I pull it out and just admire the works she did, I bought this book when I was 14 with babysitting money lol
So no, I don’t think it is out of touch to create this, in terms of selling it to fans of Dune, fans of DA or even if you want to call some fans of FC games (they do exist…). It’s pretty normal.
I think you’re conflating and projecting your disappointment with Conan and their intentions with DA related media. Do I think that they overshot moving/removing key personnel from CE to DA? Absolutely. What they are doing with it is speculative but most of us assume that CE is not generating enough revenue (albeit, would be their fault) and companies will do this when they see the potential elsewhere, nothing new right? Irresponsible and tragic surely. I don’t think I need to tell you that I get why you feel the way you do about CE of course, but we can’t equate every move and win for DA as spite to CE.
I still won’t buy or play DA and continue to abstain from parting with my money in regard to CE, I’m no longer even a number in the daily player list.
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gtfo dune sux this is the Conan forum !
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I do. All the time. I love books.
Again, I do all the freaking time. Only a fool would choose NOT to read books.
On the other hand, a book on the “art” of Dune: Awakening is… not something you are going to be reading. It is a “coffee table” book for “looking at”. And if I was going to purchase a book like that, I would buy one that contained actual photographs of actual nature, not computer generated graphics of a made up place. So I will not be purchasing this book.
I thought we had established we are more the exception then the norm?
I used to be a voracious reader, go through 2-3 paperbacks a week. But that was back when all we had was 4 stations on the TV. Options were pretty damn limited.
Can’t recall the last time I read anything longer then a news article when fact checking in quite a while. Not just a me thing, for some that would be heavy reading.
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There may be more options now, but that does mean those options are worth watching. I would much rather read a good book than watch the vast majority of the garbage they put out now.
What you do and what “everybody” does are two different things.
As an example of a) the majority and b) younger generations: All five of my grandkids, ranging in age from 3-16, read books and have a bunch of books in their rooms. Likewise their friends read books, which I know because we talk about them borrowing books from friends or lending books to them. None of these kids are “bookworms”, they’re not nerds, they’re not unusual. They, and their friends, are all typical, dare-I-say-it “normal” American kids. These are kids that all grew up with electronic devices in their hands. They’ve all had tablets before they were able to walk. They’ve all had cell phones since the day they entered elementary school. They are part of a generation who have lived with the ubiquity of electronic devices in every aspect of their lives. And they all like books. While it’s true that they own and read fewer books than previous generations, because obviously, but “the majority” of them still buy, own and read books as a part of their everyday lives.
Yes, the “majority of people” do still read books anymore. They read fewer books (and other physical publications like magazines) than they used to, but they still own them, read them, love them, trade them, brag about them, and so on.
If anything, you have just defined yourself as an exception. If you have stopped buying and reading physical books then you are the exception, not a representative of what “the majority of people” do. And full disclosure, I’m an exception along with you. In my library room I have a 20-foot long wall of floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, packed to the brim, full of the books I’ve bought in my lifetime, and yet the only books on those shelves that are less than 10 years old are used books that I bought at the recommendation of a friend, haven’t bought a brand new book in over a decade. The difference between us is I’m self-aware enough to realize I’m an exception.
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I argue they don’t. Prove me wrong. Good luck with that.
My opinion the majority of people don’t read road signs.
I haven’t tried to prove I’m right because I’m lazy. I can put up facts and figures how book sales have plummeted, or how peoples literacy has plummeted with it. And once I offer up those facts you are still going to offer up your subjectivity opinion.
But didn’t you just say you are part of the reading majority?
So are you part of your reading majority or are you an exception? You can’t be both.
Have I not said through out I/we are an exceptions? Speaking of not reading 
Note we are talking about books, not tweets, not conversational reading on some social site. Hell this forum wouldn’t count. But I’d be whiling to bet an over whelming majority of people’s reading amounts to little more then social media posts.
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I typically buy at least one book a month, be it a novel, concept art book or a comic to fill a gap in my collection.
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So you admit that the majority of people read books.
Normally I like behind the scenes stuff but nowadays don’t have the bandwidth to pay any attention to things I don’t care about to start with. My only interest in the Dune art book selling well would be if CE benefits. Maybe not even that for much longer.
Used to be a voracious reader but at some point it became too much trouble trying to find the diamonds in a sea of coal. Now it’s mostly technical journals, history and news.
As far as sci-fi goes two stories that I do re-read from time to time are The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester and Brain Wave from Poul Anderson.
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Just how did you come to that conclusion?
If you’d like I’ll see if I can find the ton of links they sent me to the making of youtube videos. I’m fairly certain the book will just be a compilation of the art presented in those videos.
No really, there for a while I was getting 2-3 a week.
I’m good but thanks
That’s now how it works. You made the claim, therefore the burden of proof is yours to prove your claim is verifiably accurate. Which you cannot because you have no way to prove such a claim.
Good for you, everyone has opinions about things.
Book sales do not prove anything. Are you also factoring in digital versions or only physical version? You cannot exclude one while claiming you are “proving” a point, other than you are using a bias to skew data. As for people’s literacy levels, that only proves the failing of the education system, not that people are actively not reading books. One of those things does not prove the other. So you are just superimposing your own subjective opinion onto selective data points and claiming you have “proof” where you quite literally do not.
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A reaction from Harperson that is not a frownieface? I WON THE FORUM!!! 
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It does for a printed art book.
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Does it? I mean, I could just go here and download a digital version of art books. Hell, some of which are FREE to download.
So again, are you only taking into consideration physical copies sold or are you also taking into consideration digital copies downloaded as well? Because if you are not taking both into consideration you are poisoning the well.
Now for me personally, I only read physical books. I know people who only read digital versions of books. And I also know people who enjoy both digital and physical versions. Then there are also audio books to take into consideration as well. Have you taken those into consideration? I know many truck drivers love those because they cannot physically read because…they are driving. But they still love to consume literature so they consume audio books to satisfy their cravings.
Years now… what took you so long to understand it ?
On topic now, not having a physical copy of every single book we ever read is correct, it’s good for the environment first of all.
Reading a beloved classic book from times to times, just because it exists in your library is very good. I have read many classics in different ages and i understand things totally different, so i feel blessed that i own this physical copy that can educate me every time i read it.
No, reading a book from your laptop, notebook, phone cannot be compared than reading it from a hard copy. Other than that people need to escape from their digital habits and a book next to the fireplace is by far the best way.
Reading hard copies of books is an experience that cannot be compared with digital reading and i don’t think that this will ever change. But again people now can choose if the “thing” that they read deserves to be in their precious library. It’s good now that the paper is reduced, it saves forests.
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