A PDF store without a publisher fee or royalty cost?

[markkat]

I'd likely be interested Russ. It's really no skin of our back, so even if it went down in flames, no biggie. Folk finding us on your site, paying direct to our PayPal. -I've no problem with the concept at all.

 

[Morrus]

I'm tentatively interested. But at the risk of sounding cynical, is this going to get sold off to RPGNow and shut down with minimal notice to publishers too?

Eh? Nothing was sold to RPGNow.

What is there to lose? No investement required. No costs involved.

Even if it DID disappear one day, what have you lost?

 

[DaveMage]

From the consumer side, would this site also keep track of previously purchased products in the event that one's hard drive crashed?

 

[FraserRonald]

Let me add my voice to those here with a solid "interested."

 

[Mark]

From the consumer side, would this site also keep track of previously purchased products in the event that one's hard drive crashed?

I would imagine the individual publisher could keep track of that with their own system or just the paypal records (and the consumer would have that paypal record as well).

 

[dmccoy1693]

I'm interested. My only questions would be:

• Who handles the downloads? The individual publisher or ENWorld?
• If ENWorld on the last question, Would you be using some kind of piracy protection/watermark?
• OBS allows 5 downloads per purchase, SJGames (and I think Paizo too, not totally sure) allow unlimited. Is ENWorld going to have a standard # of downloads per purchase or is that up to the individual publisher?

That is, if answeres to these have been determined yet.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Eh? Nothing was sold to RPGNow.

What is there to lose? No investement required. No costs involved.

Even if it DID disappear one day, what have you lost?

GMS answered once and I'll echo it: Time.

It's the most precious resource any small publisher has. It's already easy enough to get along without a lot of monetary investment.

And the "small" publishers with the deep libraries of products are at the same time the ones you need most, and the ones with the least time.

 

[Jraynack]

Alea Publishing Group would support such a site. We don't have a large library and as our 4th Edition products pick up, we will diminish or consolidate our old lines.

However, the easier to input products the more time I'll save.

 

[DaveMage]

I would imagine the individual publisher could keep track of that with their own system or just the paypal records

Makes sense.

(and the consumer would have that paypal record as well).

But maybe not if the hard drive crashes.

(You could still see a payment was made on a credit card or bank statement, but not the details of the order.)

 

[Mark]

Makes sense.



But maybe not if the hard drive crashes.

(You could still see a payment was made on a credit card or bank statement, but not the details of the order.)

Regardless of losing a personally saved record, the record at paypal should still be intact.