CrossGen is announcing Thursday that it is canceling its Compendia titles, Forge and Vector (nee Edge), after their 13th issues this month.  Orders for issues 14-16 will be canceled.  The Compendia were CrossGen's anthology trade paperback formats, with around 200 pages retailing for $7.95 (see 'CrossGen Reformats Compendia').

 

CrossGen VP Sales Chris Oarr explained the change.  'The Compendia were successful in reaching new readers,' he said.  'However, having been introduced to the entire CrossGen line, these new fans clearly gravitated toward our sequentially released graphic novels and comic books.   After a year it was apparent that publishing the Compendia, even at a reduced price, no longer made good business sense.'

 

CrossGen is putting its experience with books of this size to good use, however, by publishing single title 'traveler' trade paperback editions (see 'CrossGen Plans Traveler Trade Paperback Editions').  The company is rapidly expanding the number of titles in the traveler format this summer (see 'CrossGen Goes Big with Traveler Editions').