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So now are PDF prices gonna go up?

Started by The Evil DM, October 26, 2006, 06:16:43 PM

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#75
October 27, 2006, 07:37:09 PM
That's a good point: I can imagine a lot of these people might have advocated for RPGnow, but would never have wanted to be seen as advocating for DTRPG, or its successor.

Anyways, I still advocate the new site should be named DTRPGNOW. Hah!

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#76
October 27, 2006, 07:38:40 PM
Isn't it actually two new sites, suggesting that for their extra overheads our friendly indie publishers might not even get increased traffic?

HinterWelt

#77
October 27, 2006, 07:52:37 PM
Quote from: Mcrowanyone else think it is a little underhanded of them to use the same endorsments list on both RPGnow and Drivethru for OBS?

see the link for examples:
http://www.onebookshelf.com/aboutus.html

It seems to me that they are transfering these peoples endorsments from the other sites to OBS. They even changed the peoples quoted line by inserting OBS where rpgnow or drivethru was.

I think I might be upset If I were this people. Just because the endorse rpgnow does not mean they will like OBS.
John and Joe both have said they did not o.k. the rewording or use of their endorsements for OBS.

Just to clarify,
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#78
October 27, 2006, 10:08:08 PM
Quote from: Caesar SlaadCurious from publishers...

Does this "exclusivity" agreement include the publishers having their own web store on their site?

I'm thinking no, but wondering.

No, exclusivity doesn't prevent folks from selling off their own site.

And to answer the OP question, my guess is that SOME vendor's prices will go up at SOME point.

Some folks might raise prices now just to compensate for the rate hike, some folks might wait and see how sales develop.

Hard to say.

Chuck

Zachary The First

#79
October 30, 2006, 07:47:17 AM
Quote from: Mcrow:emot-rock: am I hearing that Hinterwelt and Bettermouse trap might be join forces?

That would be a dream team.

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#80
October 30, 2006, 09:02:06 AM
Quote from: Mr. AnalyticalE23's not much better though with it's policy of never selling a PDF of a book that's still in stock.

They won't do the GURPS core books >.< but the rest of the 4e books come out on pdf a couple of months after print. Off the top of my head stuff like Goodman Games' Dungeoncrawl Classics and some of Avenger Enterprises stuff is also in print, AE's 1248 vol. 1 was a pdf first and now is also in print, but it's not been dropped from e23.

No watermarking either, which I suspect DTRPG/RPGNow will likely move to for all its titles (or at least all new ones). Does seem behind on some companies titles though.

PaulChapman

#81
October 30, 2006, 11:27:23 AM
Quote from: Mr. AnalyticalE23's not much better though with it's policy of never selling a PDF of a book that's still in stock.

That's actually not e23's policy, but your overall point is valid -- for Steve Jackson Games products, we give the brick/mortar distribution network "first dibs" on new GURPS releases. Given that the "old fashioned" network supplies us with more income than e23 by an order of magnitude or two, it makes good business sense to do so.

However, we don't have any such prohibition on any other publishers who sell via e23. Nor do we prevent ourselves from publishing original material on e23, without making it available to the distribution chains.
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