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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Erik Mona" data-source="post: 1894943" data-attributes="member: 2174">So, to be clear, it's about 130 posts from my request for "prominent print professionals" to come on and say that things are "absolutely great" for their business. So far, we've had two takers, Monte Cook and Mongoose Matt.Monte's company is run out of his house and employs three people. It also has a heavy PDF component, and Monte is perhaps the best-known working game designer in the d20 industry, thanks to talent and excellent self-promotion.Mongoose releases a stunning volume of product, and (as I understand it) pays well below the industry standard word rates. They expect, and get, an exceptional amount of work out of their employees. Licensed products are a significant portion of their releases. So the _two_ print publishers who are doing "absolutely great" (according to this thread) are doing great because they have found a way to structure their business profitably. No surprise there. These guys deserve all the success in the world.But there are only two of them, and that ought to tell you something about the climate out there right now.It takes business smarts and entreprenurial creativity for a company to succeed in this tiny industry, and these guys have managed to pull it off. I wish there were more success stories out there. I expect there are, actually, and would love to hear about them.--Erik Mona</blockquote>