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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bloodstone Press" data-source="post: 1307620" data-attributes="member: 12468">I'm not sure why you disagree. I agree with everything you just said.  My only point in the quote you cited was that it is primarily the publisher's job to make customers aware of his titles.  That's not just my opinion, they teach you that in marketing classes. Awareness is the first step in the buying processes. People can't buy (or in this case, download for free) a product if they don't know it exists. Therefore, it is the responsibility of the businessman/salesman/publisher to make potential customers aware.  Obviously, since you and RPGnow are, in some cases, selling the same titles, your marketing efforts will supplant and help each other.   Sure, RPGnow takes a small percentage of your sales with the understanding that some of that is going for advertising. You and I both benefit inadvertently from those efforts. They are a nice boost to our sales, but RPGnow's promotional plans should not be the center of our marketing mix.  RPGnow is in business for themselves, not for you and me. Although they help us out a lot (and we help them), at the end of the day, we are all responsible for our own success or failure. We shouldn't rely on other people to insure our success.  Based on what you just said, I think you understand that already, which is why I don't know why you disagree.  In other words, I'm saying:  I didn't say it was. Chuck insinuated that anyone whose business model revolves around convincing James to change the site was lame, but he has since apologized and clarified his statements. He has gone on to say that he also understands the situation as accurately as you and I. And I think we all agree that RPGnow should not be the centerpiece of your marketing mix, that would be lame.  I said it would be lame if someone wrote a book with the deliberate intention of holding some material out and leaving a lot of errors in just to re-release a couple weeks later in an obvious attempt to grab as much front page space as possible. Not only would that be “lame” that would be abusing the system. However, I don’t think that is what anyone has done. I believe Chuck when he says that it just worked out that way. It wasn’t their plan.</blockquote>

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