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  1. rpghost

    PDF Industry - How do we help it grow?

    That's an awesome idea... or even our 300mb free sampler CD could be distributed. It's got some value to it. But I'm not big on the priate channels/methods. I'd need some people to help me spread such things. Any takers? Anyway, all your comments were excellent. Thanks! James
  2. rpghost

    PDF Industry - How do we help it grow?

    A while back (6-9 months?) I had contacted about 10 or so of the PDF ebook sellers online. I wrote them about doing a deal to carry some gaming products on their sites or at least doing a link exchange. Not one of them bothered to reply. :( James
  3. rpghost

    PDF Industry - How do we help it grow?

    Actually, the problem is that all products added on the same day are shown in ID order. So other products added later that day actually show under the product added earlier that day. I didn't notice that before, I'll see if I can put a sort order on that to fix it. Should be "products_id desc"...
  4. rpghost

    PDF Industry - How do we help it grow?

    The Game Mechanics people are x-WOTC employees so they get some "inside" help for promotion. WOTC also will not sell anything exclusive with/to us... I've tried with the PDFs they offer. In fact they want to make the playing field level so they won't do anything for me in the promotion...
  5. rpghost

    PDF Industry - How do we help it grow?

    It was started by some people from ENWorld but they have fallen off the world. I suppose I could make an effort to ask for and repost D20 reviews there ... GameWyrd.com might allow it and using yours would be great... time time time... best thing would be to find someone to adopt the site. We...
  6. rpghost

    PDF Industry - How do we help it grow?

    I'm all for the idea of some sort of portal site. But as I said, it really has to be customer / fan driven. It can't just be a site we run or people won't bother with it. The electronicd20.com site was a good idea and still is viable, just need someone willing to get on the soap box and review...
  7. rpghost

    PDF Industry - How do we help it grow?

    Don't forget the 1000's of customers that came for and only took the free Ars Magica or Deadlands releases... A portal site or some sort of industry award or rankings system might help... I own PDFGames.com if that helps with anyone creating such a site I'm open to letting them use it. I could...
  8. rpghost

    PDF Industry - How do we help it grow?

    I have contacted a lot of game stores online and at conventions. Surprising there are a few who don't mind handing out my free CD's as they have content... but beyond that they have no reason or desire or time or space to promote us... :( My online store RPGShop.com is my main money maker and...
  9. rpghost

    PDF Industry - How do we help it grow?

    Right... maybe when we/someone figures it out we can do a co-promotion or something. But how do you get people who don't surf the internet for their gaming needs to do so? James
  10. rpghost

    PDF Industry - How do we help it grow?

    Very true and that's the one major egg I donno how to crack. Do they read magazines? Will the d20 article or my ads help? They haven't yet. What do they do to learn about new games? Just from you? Oh, and I posted this same thread over at RPG.NET and there is some excellent discussion there you...
  11. rpghost

    PDF Industry - How do we help it grow?

    Re: Generating Business I've done this with a few already... not that I ever see anyone enter "convention" in the "Where did you hear about us" line... but I have tried. For example I sent 100 CD's to Flat con. As for perception of product... regretfully some product is crap. Some product is...
  12. rpghost

    PDF Industry - How do we help it grow?

    Well the glut of new products and new customers, though adding up, isn't nearly as bad as I thought once I ran some numbers and made a chart... roughly 60-90 products have been added every month for all of this year. Of course that means there is still a lot of back-catalog product competing for...
  13. rpghost

    PDF Industry - How do we help it grow?

    But why would a game store give up shelf or counter space for something that gives them no revenue? It's a nice idea but I know the gamestores won't do that. I could also offer them the free DEMO CD for all that matters... has 300mb of previews and free products on it already. We did do a print...
  14. rpghost

    PDF Industry - How do we help it grow?

    As the owner of RPGNow.com I'm obviously very interested in brainstoming this topic: I've had this idea before and it was talked about on EN World... problems are: 1) we'd have to pay for a computer to be placed on site as no store owner is going to invest in them 2) the revenue shares...
  15. rpghost

    WebRPG Online FREE again!

    Mostly they have all moved to forums.RPGHost.com as we had tons of issues with the server disk getting full at UGO and eventually it trashed the database - so I said screw them and set the forums up here: http://forums.rpghost.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=46 WebRPG is much more stable these...
  16. rpghost

    WebRPG Online FREE again!

    Quite wrong. It's JAVA so it runs on Mac, Linux, and PC... Of course UGO had to get one last dig in and screwed up the transfer of the webrpg.net domain so it's down till Monday, but you could use this time installing it and playing around with it's offline mode...
  17. rpghost

    WebRPG Online FREE again!

    None taken. You're welcome to your opinion. I'm just trying to get the word out that we've taken the site over and that all those people who want to come back can. Here's a screen shot for why WebRPG is better then IRC :) James
  18. rpghost

    WebRPG Online FREE again!

    <a href="http://www.ugo.com">UGO</a> has left the building :) <a href="http://www.rpghost.com">RPG Host Networks</a> has stepped in to take over <a href="http://www.webrpg.com">WebRPG.com</a> which was on the verge of extintion. RPG Host has made the <a...
  19. rpghost

    The Stygian: To POD or not to POD?

    Actually, there is an option for heavier cover paper stock. I had forgetten to include it in the worksheet at RPGMall. It's there now and is only a small increase in price. Thanks for the support! We will also be at GTS (Game Trade Show / GAMA ) in spring to push to the couple hundred retailers...
  20. rpghost

    EN World at Gen Con

    I donno who served you ... but we have M, L, XL, 2XL, and 3XL... that should cover 95% of the people out there. James
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