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"Exclusive deals suck!" - James Mathe's rant about the tabletop industry
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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 6072364" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>Oh, he is very good at what he does. RPGnow was (is) a<em> blazing</em> success. One of the biggest success stories of the last decade in the RPG market. RPGNow/DTRPG/OBS early on achieved a near monopoly, and there's not really any chance for any new entrants into that market. d20pfsrd.com is attempting to do that right now, but is running up against the "we have an exclusive deal with RPGNow" wall, as do sites like YourGamesNow.</p><p></p><p>RPGNow's exclusive deal is hard to resist. The near monopoly guarantees that 90% of your PDF revenue is going to come from them. Without an exclusive deal they take nearly 50% of your <em>gross </em>revenue; with one it's about 30% or 35% I think (I don't recall). So it's hard not to be exclusive with them.</p><p></p><p>EN World isn't exclusive with them, but that's only because we do so well with our own subscription service, and most of our revenue comes from here directly. If we didn't have the copper and silver subscriptions here, I'd be exclusive.</p><p></p><p>For me, the rant is kinda "I don't like it when others do what I do". Which is fair enough; nobody enjoys being on the receiving end of it. I don't think anyone's doing anything wrong; and it affects James' brick-and-mortar store in the exact same way it hurts small online PDF retailers. I would suggest that if he wants anything to change, he should start at home and lead by example (not that I think that would make any difference - it wouldn't - but it would make his rant a little more credible in my eyes).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 6072364, member: 1"] Oh, he is very good at what he does. RPGnow was (is) a[I] blazing[/I] success. One of the biggest success stories of the last decade in the RPG market. RPGNow/DTRPG/OBS early on achieved a near monopoly, and there's not really any chance for any new entrants into that market. d20pfsrd.com is attempting to do that right now, but is running up against the "we have an exclusive deal with RPGNow" wall, as do sites like YourGamesNow. RPGNow's exclusive deal is hard to resist. The near monopoly guarantees that 90% of your PDF revenue is going to come from them. Without an exclusive deal they take nearly 50% of your [I]gross [/I]revenue; with one it's about 30% or 35% I think (I don't recall). So it's hard not to be exclusive with them. EN World isn't exclusive with them, but that's only because we do so well with our own subscription service, and most of our revenue comes from here directly. If we didn't have the copper and silver subscriptions here, I'd be exclusive. For me, the rant is kinda "I don't like it when others do what I do". Which is fair enough; nobody enjoys being on the receiving end of it. I don't think anyone's doing anything wrong; and it affects James' brick-and-mortar store in the exact same way it hurts small online PDF retailers. I would suggest that if he wants anything to change, he should start at home and lead by example (not that I think that would make any difference - it wouldn't - but it would make his rant a little more credible in my eyes). [/QUOTE]
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