Kevin Rountree General Manager of BL Publishing said, “As a result of the continued and impressive success of our core novels business, which we have built around 40K and Warhammer, we have decided to focus all of our efforts on growing this part of our business. Black Industries has seen fantastic success, most recently with Talisman and Dark Heresy. This change does not take away from that achievement; rather it allows BL Publishing to focus on producing the best novels we can. This is a purely commercial decision and will enable us to carry on the huge growth that we have recently been experiencing with our novels.”

• There have been and will be job losses
• The following will be published and distributed: Inquisitors Handbook, Purge the Unclean and Disciples of the Dark Gods for Dark Heresy amounting to 1000+ pages of stuff, bought, paid for and printed from me and others, plus web support and as far as I know the Thousand Thrones which will be the last thing for WFRP2. This will run from here to September as well uploads and web support I’m told.
• Black Industries was a profitable successful business that operated with a bare minimum of staff in the first place, and Dark Heresy was a great success selling out its full first print run, and will probably get a smaller second one. But BI no longer fits in to the great scheme of things as held by the powers than be at GW where at the moment fear rules, and yet more people are being made redundant.

Or: how not to have satisfied customers 101