aramis erak
Legend
They bought out RPGNow over a decade ago, and consolodated the two several years later.OneBookShelf recently changed their website, ending batch downloads - unless you use their app. I am sick of my devices getting cluttered by scores of proprietary apps trying lock customers into corporate walled gardens. So i am not going to use it. Which means that purchases with lots of files takes a long time to download. I think the Owen's Cancer Charity Bundle took over an hour to manually download each file. Leaving aside if you loose your own library it would take forever to re-download everything.
So is there an alternative to drivethruRPG, or has one company gobbled up every RPG market? Like a mini Amazon, Google, or Sauron?
Wargames Vault, Drive Thru Comics, Drive Thru Cards, and the D&D DM's Guild store are all run via DTRPG. Mongoose's TAS program, C7's fan written content, and Free League's assorted fan content programs are also run through DTRPG.
Hyperbooks Online went the way of the dodo. I can't redownload several older PDFs that were bought from there, but some of them showed up in DTRPG - transferred by the publishers, I assume.
TravellerRPG.com shut down it's ebook store in 2007, we turned off redownloads last year.
Still Operating...
- Indie Press Revolution is still around, but has low uptake.
- Paizo has a decent webstore... but it's not as broad as one would hope.
- SJGames has Warehouse 23, which is both dead tree and ebooks. Not just SJG, either. ADB, and several GURPS and TFT licensees, as well on there.
- PIGames.net has a number of OSR games and a number of storygames publishers... but the most notable games are Earth AD, Lords of Olympus, Rune Stryders, Man, Myth and Magic, and Genre Diversion i. I do like Shatterzone, but I never had a group which liked it, and few seem to have heard of it. It's available there, too.
- Lulu has a lot of ebooks, but primarily is pushing PoD.
- Mongoose has only their own stuff.
- Modiphius.net (Mōdiphïus' webstore) has a bunch of Free League's titles.
- Free League has several "produced by others, printed by us" titles, some of which are big names right now, most notably Mörk Borg. They also sell those in their webstore.
(Shatterzone is Masterbook 0.9; Torg 1e is Masterbook 0.5, in much the same way Original Ghostbusters is D6 0.1, GBI is d6 0.5, and Star Wars is D6 v1.)
I'll note that I've always gotten faster downloads by downloading 1 file at a time from DTRPG than batch downloads. And one of my devices, the only way it successfully downloads is via the app. But that's an android based eInk notetaking tablet/ebook reader.