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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SteveC" data-source="post: 2425180" data-attributes="member: 9053">This is an excellent question.For me, it depends on how the company reacts. If I buy a book that is substandard or doesn't meet my needs, I'll look much harder at the next book that the company comes out with before buying it. An example of this would be the Complete Divine, which had many problems with spells not being updated or having errata applied to them. As a result, I've bought far fewer books from WotC as a result. I stopped buying from them at all, actually, until they had reps come by (I think this was Andy Collins) and talk about how they were making fundamental changes to the editting process, but we would not see the effects immediately. Since then, I've bought some additional books, but it really did cut down on what I buy. For another example, look at Mongoose. Matt has come by here and publicly apologized for problems with their books, which made me look at some of the new things they have come out with. Again, I've ended up buying some product. On the other hand, there have been a couple of other game companies that basically have said, "don't like our quality? It's too hard to edit and format books, and no one cares about it anyway, so just deal with it." I don't buy anything from these companies at all.I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you want me to buy your books, quality has to be a priority for you. I know that should be obvious, but I'd also bet that most ENners have a stack of bad products collecting dust somewhere--if they didn't already sell them on E-Bay. I know I do! --Steve</blockquote>

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