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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sir Edgar" data-source="post: 500714" data-attributes="member: 7230">It's nice to know that two great companies like Necromancer Games and Mystic Eye Games can share insight into the business with fans. Dungeon Magazine is hard to beat and I really like many of the adventures in there. I think I have over 40 copies of the magazine myself. It's a great value for the money, but I think there is still room for the 48-page+ adventures in the market. People need big adventures, too!   So, what do you do with the 3,000+ copies after the printer has them ready? Do you put them in storage or do you have a deal to send X number of copies to the distributor by the time they're ready? Why don't the distributors just tell you how many copies they want? Do they just get piece-meal orders from retailers and then let you know how many they'll need? If they don't give you an order in advance, wouldn't you have to store all of these copies somewhere and send 500 at a time or something like that to them? This must be complicated when you have several distributors? How many do you have on average? What about the copies that don't get sold? EBay, anyone?  Print on Demand (POD) is a great idea for small-time publishers, but for companies like NG and MEG it is too expensive an option, I think. I can see how it would work for a company just starting out in the business and waiting to get a distribution deal, however. I've heard that Gold Rush Games is offering to serve as a fulfillment house or something like that, by possibly doing this, but you'd have to ask them. From what I understand, they go a step beyond Wizard's Attic or Tundra Sales Organization by actually printing out the copies, but again I don't know for sure. A lot of people seem to have signed up with WA and TSO and I haven't heard any complaints.     By the way, do you still get orders on Bluffside? Although I haven't bought it yet, it looks like a very nice book! Repeat orders seem to be key, because by then you've already paid the writers, editors, artists, etc and I imagine the printer will give you a sweet deal on the only thing you'll really have to pay for: printing.</blockquote>

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