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<blockquote data-quote="Myrdin Potter" data-source="post: 8679574" data-attributes="member: 6843593"><p>My views on OBS’ policy is that they are a private business and it is their right to carry what goods they want. I don’t think that that they such a tiny business as they are dismissed as, 40 full time employees is pretty large in the RPG space, they basically are the Valve/Steam of the RPG industry and within it they have a large influence. I don’t think it would be that hard to compete via a platform like Shopify as the tools to make such a digital file holding website are much more available today. Not sure it is worth the effort to.</p><p></p><p>Their digital exclusivity policy is pretty broad - it does not say don’t sell the same pdf elsewhere, it says don’t sell a digital version anywhere. So no Amazon ebook if you sell your pdf here. Probably no computer game version of you sell your item here. That restriction is by choice of the publisher in return for a small reduction of the OBS fee. You can choose a non-exclusive relationship if you want. This has outsized impact on smaller publishers. A good example is that if you list your PDF and take the extra 5%, then you cannot sell a VTT version elsewhere.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Myrdin Potter, post: 8679574, member: 6843593"] My views on OBS’ policy is that they are a private business and it is their right to carry what goods they want. I don’t think that that they such a tiny business as they are dismissed as, 40 full time employees is pretty large in the RPG space, they basically are the Valve/Steam of the RPG industry and within it they have a large influence. I don’t think it would be that hard to compete via a platform like Shopify as the tools to make such a digital file holding website are much more available today. Not sure it is worth the effort to. Their digital exclusivity policy is pretty broad - it does not say don’t sell the same pdf elsewhere, it says don’t sell a digital version anywhere. So no Amazon ebook if you sell your pdf here. Probably no computer game version of you sell your item here. That restriction is by choice of the publisher in return for a small reduction of the OBS fee. You can choose a non-exclusive relationship if you want. This has outsized impact on smaller publishers. A good example is that if you list your PDF and take the extra 5%, then you cannot sell a VTT version elsewhere. [/QUOTE]
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