Best place to learn of new hardcover collections?

I'd like to buy as many adventures and paths as possible, but I'm always worried that I'll buy a bunch of softcover installments without realizing that a hardcover collection was in the works and I should have waited. Is there a particular place (either here or on YouTube or something) where a list of all hardcover adventure paths, both released and in-production, can be found? For example, I'm eyeing Agents of Edgewatch and Strength of Thousands since they seem ripe for a hardcover.

I'd like to buy as many adventures and paths as possible, but I'm always worried that I'll buy a bunch of softcover installments without realizing that a hardcover collection was in the works and I should have waited.

The best place to hear about hardcover collections as early as possible is to follow the Paizo blog.

The problem is that there is no way to predict which Adventure Paths are going to be collated into a hardcover. It depends on sales, customer demand, and Paizo's assessment of where retelling old stories might fit into their mission of telling new stories.

Some APs get hardcover treatment and some don't. You can't really predict it while the single-volume publications are coming out. It's usually several years later that that happens.

bmardiney wrote:

I'd like to buy as many adventures and paths as possible, but I'm always worried that I'll buy a bunch of softcover installments without realizing that a hardcover collection was in the works and I should have waited.

The best place to hear about hardcover collections as early as possible is to follow the Paizo blog.

Paizo blog
Paizo always announces new publications there first.

The problem is that there is no way to predict which Adventure Paths are going to be collated into a hardcover. It depends on sales, customer demand, and Paizo's assessment of where retelling old stories might fit into their mission of telling new stories.

Some APs get hardcover treatment and some don't. You can't really predict it while the single-volume publications are coming out. It's usually several years later that that happens.

Okay thanks. Guess I'll just buy as I want to run them, as opposed to ahead of time.

Keep in mind that, including Starfinder, Paizo is currently on their 46th and 47th adventure paths (24 PF1, 12 PF2, & 11 Starfinder).
Of those, only 6 have been collected into hardcovers. (Rise of the Runelords, Curse of the Crimson Throne, Kingmaker, Abomination Vaults, Fists of the Ruby Phoenix, and Dead Suns.)

Holding out on not buying softcovers because it might be released as a hardcover later is a significant gamble as any AP has a chance of not getting collected and some out of print books sell for ridiculously high prices on ebay.

Keep in mind that, including Starfinder, Paizo is currently on their 46th and 47th adventure paths (24 PF1, 12 PF2, & 11 Starfinder).

Of those, only 6 have been collected into hardcovers. (Rise of the Runelords, Curse of the Crimson Throne, Kingmaker, Abomination Vaults, Fists of the Ruby Phoenix, and Dead Suns.)

Holding out on not buying softcovers because it might be released as a hardcover later is a significant gamble as any AP has a chance of not getting collected and some out of print books sell for ridiculously high prices on ebay.

From the office of pedantry, don't forget the 3 Adventure Paths we did in Dungeon Magazine, which included another hardcover compilation.

But yes. we don't compile Adventure Paths often into hardcover, and do so at a much slower rate than we publish new ones, so we will NEVER compile them all. We generally don't announce compilations that far in advance (even though we do start working on them further out), so if you're worried about buying an Adventure Path in its softcover format only for us to announce a hardcover one the next day... chances of that happening aren't zero, but they're pretty low.

We do intend to keep them always available via PDF though so they're still available that way even if physical copies sell out.

Warped Savant wrote:

Keep in mind that, including Starfinder, Paizo is currently on their 46th and 47th adventure paths (24 PF1, 12 PF2, & 11 Starfinder).

Of those, only 6 have been collected into hardcovers. (Rise of the Runelords, Curse of the Crimson Throne, Kingmaker, Abomination Vaults, Fists of the Ruby Phoenix, and Dead Suns.)

Holding out on not buying softcovers because it might be released as a hardcover later is a significant gamble as any AP has a chance of not getting collected and some out of print books sell for ridiculously high prices on ebay.

From the office of pedantry, don't forget the 3 Adventure Paths we did in Dungeon Magazine, which included another hardcover compilation.

But yes. we don't compile Adventure Paths often into hardcover, and do so at a much slower rate than we publish new ones, so we will NEVER compile them all. We generally don't announce compilations that far in advance (even though we do start working on them further out), so if you're worried about buying an Adventure Path in its softcover format only for us to announce a hardcover one the next day... chances of that happening aren't zero, but they're pretty low.

We do intend to keep them always available via PDF though so they're still available that way even if physical copies sell out.

Okay great, thanks for the reply. I will not worry about this then. I just happened to luck out and get into Pathfinder (and tabletop in general) right after the hardcover of Abomination Vaults released. So it skewed by perception of how often they are made :p

From the office of pedantry, don't forget the 3 Adventure Paths we did in Dungeon Magazine, which included another hardcover compilation.

I forgot about Shackled City!

There's also the Emerald Spire, although the individual adventures are not as interconnected as a regular AP nor do they go higher than character level 13 (IIRC).