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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMSkarka" data-source="post: 2458128" data-attributes="member: 763">Um...no.  You don't get any SRDs with the Vendor set-up fee at RPGNow.   None.  Not anime, not superhero.You get:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">New Vendor Instructions</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">RPGNow's Vendor Contract</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">RPGNow's Vendor Help Guide</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">RPGNow Product Standards Document</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The ePublisher Guide, which contains info about EVERY aspect of running an ePublishing business (the book sells for $19.95)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The ePublisher D20/OGL Guide (which sells separately for $12.95, and is a guide to the legal ins and outs of the licenses.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The ePublisher PDF Creator (which sells separately for $16.95, and is a guide to the techical aspects of PDF creation)</li> </ul>I would recommend that you read those, cover to cover, and learn the material.  Especially the Product Standards Document, the PDF Creator, and the ePublisher Guide.I have no idea what the second half of your sentence even means, so I'll just address what you said at the beginning: "The 40 bucks covers bandwidth"----No, it doesn't.   As stated in the description of the package, the 40 bucks is to cover the cost of adding new vendors to the site as well as the addition of a review process for products.   It's not a bandwidth charge, is a service fee to cover the cost of staff who have to add the new publishers to the system, and who have to examine the publishers product to make sure it reaches minimum standards....which they obviously don't in this case.So anybody who can pay 40 bucks should be able to circumvent professional standards?No.   There are far too many well-meaning but incompetent amateurs in the PDF business already.  There needs to be at least SOME quality control.RPGNow puts the following quote on their vendor information page, and I really think that you and your company should strongly consider the question:"Potential publishers need to examine their goals. Do they want to be published, or publishers? Being a publisher means running a business. It means creating a website, coordinating art, editing, and layout, marketing the product, keeping finances in order, and so on."Because, from where I'm sitting, it looks like you guys didn't even look at the materials you were given, which makes me question whether or not you're ready to be publishers.</blockquote>

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