Going Out of Print

[Jim Butler]

Are there still plans for making old products like Arms & Armor and Alchemy and Herbalism into pdfs?

We're still planning to release our older products as PDFs (most of them, anyway).

 

[2d6]

What about wrapping up your remaining inventory into packs that contain all three books and auctioning those on ebay?

 

[Ghostwind]

By the time you spent the time and effort to create the bundles and list the auctions, have them shipped from the warehouse (where the inventory is kept) when the auction concluded, and paid Ebay's fees, you would be losing money against no more than they would bring on Ebay. d20 material on Ebay (especially older stuff) barely brings more than about $2 for every $5 (meaning you often get a $20 for $8 or less). That's one of the reasons why publishers don't sell on Ebay. The end cost to them is to great to justify against the final auction value. It would be different if d20 stuff was bringing at least 50 cents to the dollar there all the time, but it simply doesn't.

 

[Jim Butler]

What about wrapping up your remaining inventory into packs that contain all three books and auctioning those on ebay?

While we haven't done a lot on Ebay (I leave that to many of the local retailers out there that use Ebay as an extension of their retail operations), we did try to bundle the products and sell them directly to retailers via the standard distribution chain.

We sold 8 copies.

Given the amount of work involved with creating new SKU numbers, contacting all the distributors and retailers, calling up our distribution partners to remind them to order it, and other cost and time commitments, bundling hasn't seemed to work for us (at least through the standard distribution chain).

You've still got a week left, though... ;-)

 

[pogre]

Hi Jim,

I have been very impressed with your sincere and open replies to this thread. It was very educational to me and explained a lot of things I had been wondering about in the past. So thank you.

I agree that publishers that discount their books are asking for customers to just hold off and buy them when they go on "sale." There are a couple of companies I do that with.

Thanks again and good luck.

Keith