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<blockquote data-quote="Arnix" data-source="post: 1122234" data-attributes="member: 5521"><p>I was planning on putting a small ad for rpgnow.com into the PoD that I am planning on ordering for "Question of Honor: A Guidebook to Knights". The page count difference for adding any of these type of ads is very minor, and fairly common in print products (i.e., it won't appear out of place enough to anger customers).</p><p></p><p>Working in the online/media business (software developer for a medium sized international newspaper/radio/magazine/book publishing/online company) has given me a bit of insight into what can be done with various mediums. I agree with Clark that we SHOULD have links to topic headings, named NPCs, statblocks, monsters in the appendix, etc. Our future products will take advantage of that, and an update will probably be done for our current product. Being an e-publisher means that we can do any of these nice features enhancements and it will cost us nothing but time, and we can give an update to all of our customers free.</p><p></p><p>We also made an agreement with out FLGS to carry CDs of our book for a reasonable percentage of the sales. We printed out the book on a very nice color printer, and set a bound copy right next to the CD cases. We have had nothing but great responses from the in-store people, though sales could be a little better. It seems that the requirement that the gamer print the material is a major drawback.</p><p></p><p>Also, we did a nice demo CD containing all of our free items and got the FLGS to distribute them with purchases of print products to their customers. The cost on this was very minimal, 100 CDs, labels, and sleeves, costs about $50. Most people can't run a small print ad in the paper for that.</p><p></p><p>If you want to approach the FLGS, you need to find a way to make it help them. Almost anything that sells, or increases traffic, will be welcomed. Make friends. Often they are gamers just like you.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Cameron Guill</p><p>Alea Publishing Group</p><p>aleapublishing.com</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arnix, post: 1122234, member: 5521"] I was planning on putting a small ad for rpgnow.com into the PoD that I am planning on ordering for "Question of Honor: A Guidebook to Knights". The page count difference for adding any of these type of ads is very minor, and fairly common in print products (i.e., it won't appear out of place enough to anger customers). Working in the online/media business (software developer for a medium sized international newspaper/radio/magazine/book publishing/online company) has given me a bit of insight into what can be done with various mediums. I agree with Clark that we SHOULD have links to topic headings, named NPCs, statblocks, monsters in the appendix, etc. Our future products will take advantage of that, and an update will probably be done for our current product. Being an e-publisher means that we can do any of these nice features enhancements and it will cost us nothing but time, and we can give an update to all of our customers free. We also made an agreement with out FLGS to carry CDs of our book for a reasonable percentage of the sales. We printed out the book on a very nice color printer, and set a bound copy right next to the CD cases. We have had nothing but great responses from the in-store people, though sales could be a little better. It seems that the requirement that the gamer print the material is a major drawback. Also, we did a nice demo CD containing all of our free items and got the FLGS to distribute them with purchases of print products to their customers. The cost on this was very minimal, 100 CDs, labels, and sleeves, costs about $50. Most people can't run a small print ad in the paper for that. If you want to approach the FLGS, you need to find a way to make it help them. Almost anything that sells, or increases traffic, will be welcomed. Make friends. Often they are gamers just like you. Cameron Guill Alea Publishing Group aleapublishing.com [/QUOTE]
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