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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MEG Hal" data-source="post: 499951" data-attributes="member: 1907">Ok---what do 4 of us do?  Different things and get compensated for it differently as well.  Doug and I are the 2 majors and we have two partners who are more specialized but are helping in keeping us around.Doug Herring-President: He does this full-time BTW, and he has other projects as well, smart guy <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> .Hal Greenberg-VP, and art director-I have a full time job.Andrew Thompson- Lead designer and major writer for the Gothos, The Hunt: Rise of Evil line, has full time job.Jim Govreau-Lead for the Bluffside line, has full time job.As for could one of do it and be full time, Doug probably works 60+ hours a week, and I do about 40 hours so my answer would be no, but we do a lot more then what you would think.Doug laid out 3 books for us in the past 45 days, I had 5+ books I needed to get art done for as well as an article for Gaming Frontiers, and one for ENWorld Mag plus other misc. stuff.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> So while we love it it is a job for us and tough.As far as printing books, we make more then we need but we do see what trends are like and adjust print runs for best all around success of a book.  Our print run numbers are edging up on a lot of our lines due to retailers and customers becoming loyal and new customers buying our books and coming back for more(thanks BTW).Will clarify the statements you asked about, as more d20 products come out we see a large front list (new) surge but our back list (old) slow down a lot, so we adjust print runs to meet current trends.  It seems that a lot of retailers do not feel the urge to reorder older books due to so many newer books coming out, it is a shame because some books we have The Hunt campaign setting and Bluffside: City on the Edge have been ENNie nominated and are real good books, they do keep selling but we would love to see more back sales (who would not).As for vanity press I meant you make a 10,000 print run and are new so you sell 2000, you have a lot of money tied to the other 8k and can not make another book, vanity press out of funds.There are a lot of costs as Clark noted, art, writers, layout advertising, storage etc...and that is before you pay to print the books.  This is a wonderful business just not one that will be the next dot.com money making scheme, but a smart company can keep growing and be a success in the RPG industry, and as I see it MEG will be one of them.As a side note, as Clark, I am also new to this industry and make no comments stating otherwise.  I have learned about this business but am far from being  "a name" like some of the great people Clark mentioned.  Everyday I am learning about new things and attempting to make the best product and keep people coming back for more MEG stuff.Ok, once again enough from me, I will be quiet.</blockquote>

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