[AMBIENT] Deleting Stock

[HellHound]

Ambient Inc. will be removing Librum Equitis volume 1 from the Ambient Inc. virtual storefront shortly after the one year anniversary of its release.

Librum Equitis volume 1 was released on January 5th, 2002, to significant acclaim and leapt to the #1 spot for all time sales at RPGnow within a month of release, as well as the #1 spot on the top 20 d20 products here at ENworld. While we are proud of this product and its performance, we at Ambient feel that it does not accurately portray our current publishing ability, and so we will be celebrating its one-year anniversary by pulling it off the "virtual shelf" at RPGnow.

We also plan on discontinuing sales of some of our other products after the one-year period. Our ENnie award-winning Portable Hole Full of Beer (this product contains no alcohol) will be discontinued in late March, and most likely we will also be discontinuing sales on Librum Equitis volume 2 mid-2003.

 

[philreed]

Excellent.

I've been considering this exact same thing. I'll be curious to see how this works out for you.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Is this because there are printed versions of the book out or ? It's not like traditional books where it's taking up physical space so I'm a little curious about this. Sales low so one last hurrah to get demand up one last time before discontinuing?

 

[HellHound]

The last one Joe.

Sales on Librum Equitis 1 have been about one a week for the past few months. Also, like I said, it REALLY doesn't show off the quality of production we do now at Ambient, and therefore doesn't deserve to be our flagship product.

I did the layout and so on for LE1 using WordPerfect with the built-in publish to pdf function.

Since then, I've been using REAL layout software and doing professional layout.

LE1 is an eyesore.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Sounds like a plan. With the print edition out, the demand for the online one probably took a bit of a hit too.

With more books in the line coming out, perhaps in late '03 or early '04 we'll see a hardcover revised with more campaign information on tying the organizations together, a bit more matieral like the various Path series where the PrCs have organizations behind them. I'd also like to see some suggestiosn on making the PrC in the traditional method and the 'fast' method.

 

[Krug]

But will we see a newer, better LE1? Now that you're probably armed with better tools and access to good artists.