Goodman Games to publish a 4e print magazine under the GSL

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WWDDD Level Up Special Offer

Hi all,

Goodman Games has a special offer for those who pre-order Level Up #1 on Worldwide D&D Game Day. Details below:

Special Offer for Worldwide D&D Game Day!

Pre-order Goodman Games’ new 4E magazine Level Up on Worldwide D&D Game Day this Saturday (March 21), and get entered in a drawing to win your own Free RPG Day!

For complete details, visit the Goodman Games web site or read on.

Level up your 4E game! Level Up is the official 4E RPG magazine coming from Goodman Games in April. As a special offer available only on Worldwide D&D Game Day, you could win a private Free RPG Day for yourself and five friends if you pre-order this $1.99 magazine at your local game store!

Covering all things 4E, Level Up includes adventures, character options, new monsters, Azagar’s Advice for Adventurers, and the endearing wisdom of Dear Archmage Abby. All for only $1.99!

The Free RPG Day prize includes six copies of every Free RPG Day release sent directly to the winner. Free RPG Day is June 20 and features unique freebies from Goodman Games, Wizards of the Coast, and others. For more info visit the Free RPG Day web site.

Customers: To pre-order Level Up #1 and be entered in the drawing, download the pre-order form and give to your local store on March 21, 2009 during Worldwide D&D Game Day. You can find the pre-order form at the Goodman Games web site.

 

[Harley Stroh]

Level Up news from the latest Goodman Games announcment:

Goodman Games is pleased to announce that it has partnered with RPGNow to provide an innovative new service to purchasers of its new 4E print magazine Level Up. Every physical copy of Level Up will include a code that allows the buyer to download a free e-book edition from RPGNow. This code functions whether the purchase is made online, in a retail store, or via subscription. In effect, every print purchase includes the PDF version for free, regardless of where it’s purchased.

While other publishers have offered similar service exclusively to online purchasers or subscribers, Goodman Games is the first RPG publisher to offer a level playing field to bricks-and-mortar retailers. Combined with the unique pricing structure for Level Up, customers have a strong reason to visit their local game store: they can choose to pay $1.99 for both print and PDF editions at their favorite game store, or pay $4.00 online.

“Our net-savvy customers have repeatedly requested that we provide a PDF option with subscriptions,” said Joseph Goodman, President of Goodman Games. “I am glad to be able to do that, while also offering a PDF option for all other purchasers as well. This fair approach also introduces print customers to the world of PDF products, providing a new profit stream for both Goodman Games and bricks-and-mortar retailers who take advantage of RPGNow’s custom storefronts.”

RPGNow and its partner site, DriveThruRPG, are divisions of OneBookShelf, Inc., the industry’s largest source of PDF e-books. “We're very excited to be a part of this new program,” said Sean Patrick Fannon, RPG Marketing Manager of OneBookShelf. “This is a great way for us to support Goodman Games, one of our top publishers, as well as all of the Goodman customers and the hobby overall. We're also happy, of course, to get new customers coming to the sites to see all that we offer. This is an excellent proof-of-concept to show how e-books and download product can be effectively partnered with print media.”

For 2009, Level Up is the only Goodman Games product line to incorporate download codes. RPGNow and Goodman Games will work together on Level Up to refine the technology required to ensure easy downloads with minimal piracy. Provided the experiment is successful, Goodman Games expects to transition a broader portion of its product line to this dual print-and-PDF approach for 2010.

Bricks-and-mortar retailers can take advantage of this technology in new ways. First, they can now offer their Goodman Games customers the same download opportunities that other publishers only offer online. Second, they can work with RPGNow to create a custom retailer store front, and profit from their print customers’ purchases of PDFs.

 

[darjr]

buhwa?!

Very cool, and very much thank you!

 

[MichaelSomething]

This is getting better and better! This is gonna be super-special-awesome!