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<blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 674825" data-attributes="member: 813"><p>And actually, some of the staff reviewers are well known for lowering their review rating for bad art in both print and pdf. If you look hard enough, you will find PDF reviews that get slammed for bad text/page ratios just like print works. But following is the artwork commentary on my book from this review site:Three out of the four reviews on Enworld seem to care. And that was my first entry into any form of publishing. Try the artwork in the Character Customization preview below and tell me it is bad. It may be grainy but only because I made the PDF at 100 dpi to keep it small: it's a preview. And there will be borders once I can find borders I like.</p><p></p><p>Well, as long as people have the opinion that PDF productions are just fan productions, of course they cannot support "real" business. Your attitude is why PDF publishing is not as viable as print publishing. People on the message boards constantly say "If it wasn't worth printing, it must be no good." WotC's policy reinforces that perception. That's why we are upset.Now I know I'm the only person who's been throwing around the "my stuff is better" stuff and I recognize that although you mentioned my product by name, you aren't calling me out. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> The problem is perception. If you can't take me seriously, you don't buy my stuff. If WotC doesn't take me seriously, how can I get the average fan to do so?</p><p></p><p>There are a lot of RPGers who do not even buy the rulebooks to the games they play. Virtual books have made no real strides into popular culture. Until there's digital paper (promised for 10 years now), it will always be an uphill battle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jmucchiello, post: 674825, member: 813"] And actually, some of the staff reviewers are well known for lowering their review rating for bad art in both print and pdf. If you look hard enough, you will find PDF reviews that get slammed for bad text/page ratios just like print works. But following is the artwork commentary on my book from this review site:Three out of the four reviews on Enworld seem to care. And that was my first entry into any form of publishing. Try the artwork in the Character Customization preview below and tell me it is bad. It may be grainy but only because I made the PDF at 100 dpi to keep it small: it's a preview. And there will be borders once I can find borders I like. Well, as long as people have the opinion that PDF productions are just fan productions, of course they cannot support "real" business. Your attitude is why PDF publishing is not as viable as print publishing. People on the message boards constantly say "If it wasn't worth printing, it must be no good." WotC's policy reinforces that perception. That's why we are upset.Now I know I'm the only person who's been throwing around the "my stuff is better" stuff and I recognize that although you mentioned my product by name, you aren't calling me out. :) The problem is perception. If you can't take me seriously, you don't buy my stuff. If WotC doesn't take me seriously, how can I get the average fan to do so? There are a lot of RPGers who do not even buy the rulebooks to the games they play. Virtual books have made no real strides into popular culture. Until there's digital paper (promised for 10 years now), it will always be an uphill battle. [/QUOTE]
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