Malhavoc to offer PDFs in two formats

[Psion]

This just in:

http://www.montecook.com/mpress_PDF_Announce.html

Malhavoc Press

Malhavoc Now Offers eBooks in Two Formats

Fans of our electronic products will be interested and hopefully happy to note that Malhavoc Press electronic products are once again available through the White Wolf/Sword & Sorcery catalog in their original PDF form, in addition to our ebooks sold at DriveThruRPG.com.

We're still thrilled to be working with DriveThru and excited about the prospects of formerly print-only publishers offering their game products there in an electronic format. DriveThru offers a great way to bring both more publishers and more customers into the ebook arena.

But we've also seen that, as a publisher who has offered PDF products for three years, we've built up an audience that would like to see us also continue to use our traditional formats. As the leader in the electronic arena, we want to continue to meet the needs of our customers -- in fact, as always, we want to go beyond that and offer them new products that continue to surprise and innovate. Our upcoming books, including Children of the Rune, Beyond Countless Doorways, Mystic Secrets: The Lore of Word and Rune, and The Book of Iron Might, do just that. We want to make sure that the most customers possible have access to these great products. Further, looking to next year and beyond . . . well, we've got some big and exciting product line plans.

If Adobe Reader (6.0) ebooks are a convenient format for you, I encourage you to visit DriveThruRPG.com, where you'll find not only all of Malhavoc's books, but cool stuff from other quality publishers: Necromancer Games, Fantasy Flight, Chaosium, and a lot more. You won't find their offerings in electronic format anywhere else.

If PDFs that use older versions of Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader or non-Adobe software are to your liking, you can find them in our catalog at swordsorcery.com. This is also the format you'll want if you are using Linux or older versions of the Mac OS (prior to 10.2.4).

Direct links to the appropriate pages on both sites can be found on our product pages at montecook.com or Malhavocpress.com.

And, as always, if you would rather own our products in printed form, everything will be available at your favorite local hobby or book retailer.

 

[BryonD]

Kudos to Monte!!!!

 

[BryonD]

Of course, there is another element here.

Why just White Wolf and not RPGnow as well?
Obviously it is the Drivethru exclusivity. But if Drivethru and WW are completely separate, then why can WW get around the exclusivity and RPGnow can not?

I think that answer is obvious.

So big props to Monte for doing a good thing.
But yet another Boo Hiss to Drivethru.

 

[Crothian]

Well, WW and Drivethrough are obviously not as speerate as they would like you to believe. But the imp[ortant thing here is that Monte once again shows he's a great person by offering his customers the choice.

Now, after a few months it would be interesting if he would say which has sold better, the e-books or the older pdf formats.

 

[BryonD]

Well, WW and Drivethrough are obviously not as speerate as they would like you to believe. But the important thing here is that Monte once again shows he's a great person by offering his customers the choice.

Agreed.

 

[francisca]

Outstanding!

I applaud Monte.

I sincerely hope that the other publishers reconsider, and follow suit, but I won't hold my breath.

 

[Nightfall]

I just wish they'd do the same for the S&SS books they release.

Course I still need to save my cash for the stuff I want that's now in Ebook format.

(Any idea of GR will follow eventually or not? Come on Chris! I'll give you money either way! )

 

[Starglim]

I thought I should put my money where my mouth is, when I said that only DRM prevented me from buying stuff hosted at DriveThru, so I'm now a customer of White Wolf. It's a peculiar feeling.

Arcana Unearthed: Way of the Sword PDF $6.00
Anger of Angels PDF $10.00

If it wasn't for this debacle I wouldn't have known that the Way of the Sword/Way of the Staff/Grimoire products existed. It's a nice concept - offering only the magic bits of UA for those who could care less about the combat classes, and vice versa. I could wish that Wizards put this sort of thinking into .. say .. Eberron.

 

[BSF]

Cool, it looks like I can still get Malhavoc PDF's. I would prefer to pick them up at RPGNow, since I often buy several PDF's at once. But, I will try to remember that Monte has stuff available over at White Wolf and check there from time to time as well.

 

[Bagpuss]

Nice U-turn, well hard right, U-turn would have been selling through RPGNow again.