Furn_Darkside
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THG Hal said:
Hmm, just to be clear- My "you" and "your" was in a generic sense. I am not "naming names" in my little rant/hijack.
I have no complaint with your work.
FD
Paper or . . . digital?
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Hmm, just to be clear- My "you" and "your" was in a generic sense. I am not "naming names" in my little rant/hijack.
I have no complaint with your work.
FD
Monte At Home
Explorer
Well, I guess as the main pdf/print version guy, I should step in.
We don't put anything in the print version that isn't already available in either the pdf or free on our website. We don't see the pdf as a "lesser" version of the product and create patches to make sure that the pdf is always up to date.
We've never released a print product that had info you couldn't get electronically, though. I don't expect people to have to buy both versions. I see our products as having two different audiences.
As for putting the free content from the website as a patch to the pdf... I honestly never even thought of it before. At first glance, it seems like a waste (the reason we stuck the web content into the print version is because we assume that lots of those customers never come to our website). But I'll reconsider. It would only affect the original BoEM and If Thoughts Could Kill anyway. Hmm...
For the future, however, the point is moot. Our new policy is that the print and pdf versions are entirely identical. When we're doing production nowadays, they both get laid out and finished at the same time. With our updated page layout, it works just fine for both versions and so there's no need to do them differently.
We don't put anything in the print version that isn't already available in either the pdf or free on our website. We don't see the pdf as a "lesser" version of the product and create patches to make sure that the pdf is always up to date.
We've never released a print product that had info you couldn't get electronically, though. I don't expect people to have to buy both versions. I see our products as having two different audiences.
As for putting the free content from the website as a patch to the pdf... I honestly never even thought of it before. At first glance, it seems like a waste (the reason we stuck the web content into the print version is because we assume that lots of those customers never come to our website). But I'll reconsider. It would only affect the original BoEM and If Thoughts Could Kill anyway. Hmm...
For the future, however, the point is moot. Our new policy is that the print and pdf versions are entirely identical. When we're doing production nowadays, they both get laid out and finished at the same time. With our updated page layout, it works just fine for both versions and so there's no need to do them differently.
Furn_Darkside
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Monte At Home said:
That is great to hear!
I am looking forward to Requiem for a God, and fingernail-removing painfully awaiting Mindscapes. Argh, the wait...
FD
Furn_Darkside
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THG Hal said:
I know FD--no offense taken, I was just expaining my side as I SLOWLY backed out of the room facing you the whole time.
Sheesh- send someone a pic of the voodoo doll you are making in their image and they get all paranoid. What is this world coming to?
FD
Blacksad
Explorer
Re: Thanks for the feedback . . .
You might wish to ask some publisher or specialist, how much overlap there is between potential customer of PDF and customer of standard books, so that if you publish both, you might decide to reduce a bit (or more probably not reduce) the print run.
You might also wish to consider how a PDF, that might get pirated will affect sales of the print run version, if many people pirated the PDF will they buy your book?
[IMO]
If your plans were to release the book only through your website, there will be overlap, and pirated copy will affect sales, because it looks like the d20 online community buy and use PDF more often than the standard d20 customer, so I think that the availability of the PDF will reduce your printed sales.
If the book is released in normal stores, I think that the effect of having a PDF version will not be noticed in the printed book sales, and you might get a very little more cash, as soon as the book is finished (that the interesting point
) through PDF sales thanks to a minority of customer, because they use a laptop (like me), or live in a country where shipping might be costly (still like me) and prefer a PDF version.
Aso, if you go to the PDF route, try to use RPGnow (something that accept many customer, as opposed to paypal which works great for some, and not so well for other).
[/IMO]
philreed said:
You might wish to ask some publisher or specialist, how much overlap there is between potential customer of PDF and customer of standard books, so that if you publish both, you might decide to reduce a bit (or more probably not reduce) the print run.
You might also wish to consider how a PDF, that might get pirated will affect sales of the print run version, if many people pirated the PDF will they buy your book?
[IMO]
If your plans were to release the book only through your website, there will be overlap, and pirated copy will affect sales, because it looks like the d20 online community buy and use PDF more often than the standard d20 customer, so I think that the availability of the PDF will reduce your printed sales.
If the book is released in normal stores, I think that the effect of having a PDF version will not be noticed in the printed book sales, and you might get a very little more cash, as soon as the book is finished (that the interesting point
) through PDF sales thanks to a minority of customer, because they use a laptop (like me), or live in a country where shipping might be costly (still like me) and prefer a PDF version.Aso, if you go to the PDF route, try to use RPGnow (something that accept many customer, as opposed to paypal which works great for some, and not so well for other).
[/IMO]
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