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<blockquote data-quote="JoeGKushner" data-source="post: 4747542" data-attributes="member: 1129"><p>Which is why I feel bad for them.</p><p></p><p>With a simple mass e-mail and advertising it at your selling place online, you're 'there'. The sale is on. No flyers need to be mailed out. No handholding with third party distribution ala Alliance or others. You have control.</p><p></p><p>If it truly upsets him to the point where he feels anger/betrayal/etc... then he needs to become a producer and not, in essence, a middleman himself. Moving of content will be slowly drained off the physical as people either run out of damn space to put their books or the low prices drag them in. </p><p></p><p>Complaining about it without enacting any some type of change will do him no good.</p><p></p><p>Now mind you, for some of the publishers like Green Ronin and Fantasy Flight Games that sell a lot of RPGs, I have no clue if all of the bookstores went ouf of business tomorrow how that would effect their bottom line. Are such companies... secure enough that they cna survive on PDF sales alone? If brick and mortar stores had sense and organization abilities, they'd create some type of entity themselves to get a chunk of that, a PDF 'tax' if you will. "You want your physical product carried in the store? No problem but this entity gets some of the electronic media price in exchange."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JoeGKushner, post: 4747542, member: 1129"] Which is why I feel bad for them. With a simple mass e-mail and advertising it at your selling place online, you're 'there'. The sale is on. No flyers need to be mailed out. No handholding with third party distribution ala Alliance or others. You have control. If it truly upsets him to the point where he feels anger/betrayal/etc... then he needs to become a producer and not, in essence, a middleman himself. Moving of content will be slowly drained off the physical as people either run out of damn space to put their books or the low prices drag them in. Complaining about it without enacting any some type of change will do him no good. Now mind you, for some of the publishers like Green Ronin and Fantasy Flight Games that sell a lot of RPGs, I have no clue if all of the bookstores went ouf of business tomorrow how that would effect their bottom line. Are such companies... secure enough that they cna survive on PDF sales alone? If brick and mortar stores had sense and organization abilities, they'd create some type of entity themselves to get a chunk of that, a PDF 'tax' if you will. "You want your physical product carried in the store? No problem but this entity gets some of the electronic media price in exchange." [/QUOTE]
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