The other thread.

[Vocenoctum]

If I can ask, those that aren't raising your prices;
How many of you were already at the 35% rate?
How many of you were already on all three sites?

 

[GMSkarka]

If I can ask, those that aren't raising your prices;
How many of you were already at the 35% rate?
How many of you were already on all three sites?

Sure, why not -- Adamant was already available on all three sites, and was a grandfathered Gold vendor at RPGNow. Our rate was 25% at RPGNow, 20% at ENGS, and 35% at DTRPG. We will be signing exclusive, which means our new rate will be 30%.

 

[jaerdaph]

What is the rate (are the rates?) if you don't sign exclusive?

Edit: I want to respect the intent of this thread so if the question is inappropriate here, I'd be more than happy to move it to a new thread.

 

[Bardsandsages]

We would like to note that everyone in this thread will move their writing/art/editing sources to India, JG Browning is already located in India so it's either increasing prices or consider using child labor... ;-)

As someone who has published two print anthologies including writers from around the world, I find this to be completely obnoxious. The implication that we or any publisher here will use the rate increase as an excuse to jerk around writers and artists is ridiculous.

 

[direpress]

If I can ask, those that aren't raising your prices;
How many of you were already at the 35% rate?
How many of you were already on all three sites?

i am currently a gold vendor at RPGNow, with a 30% rate. i will be an exclusive vendor at OBS, with a 30% rate. i had chosen to sell through a single storefront to simplify my backend process (that is, i'm lazy).

 

[direpress]

What is the rate (are the rates?) if you don't sign exclusive?

OneBookShelf: "You earn a royalty of 70% (exclusive) or 65% (non-exclusive) from your sales, which includes handling all the bandwidth, credit card processing and customer service for you."
(thus, OBS takes a 30% (exclusive) or 35% (non-exclusive) percentage.)

 

[HinterWelt]

What is the rate (are the rates?) if you don't sign exclusive?

Edit: I want to respect the intent of this thread so if the question is inappropriate here, I'd be more than happy to move it to a new thread.

It is 35% for non-exclusivity, 30% if you go exclusive but you can still sell from your own site.

Old rate for vendors...something like 2-3 years ago, was 25%. Newer vendors would be at 30%. On DTRPG it was 30% for exclusive and 35% for non-exclusive.

e23 has 20% as is LULU (I think). I am not sure about Paizo but I believe it is 20%?

Those are all I know of.

Bill

 

[Paradigm]

I have no intention of raising prices unless OBS somehow fails in its mission to increase sales, and I don't experience an increase in PDF revenue from other sites (which I am joining) and my own soon-to-come under-construction storefront (where I don't have to pay anybody anything). Such an unlikely event would be many months off regardless.

Weighing the sites we were on for performance, our rate was 24.2%, and our new rate will be 35%. Doing the math, we need a 16% increase in sales to make it all even.

 

[Bacris]

At this time, Dreamscarred Press will not be raising its prices (for its whopping 1 current product =P), although the increased commission may mean the printed copy has a higher final price.

 

[SOS Mike]

Silver Oak Studios won't be raising the price of its Lorebook either. Like several others here, we're a new company, with only one current product. We're currently paying 35% to DTRPG and 30% to RPGNow, and we did not previously sell on ENGS. If SOS (Silver Oak Studios) looks at the royalties based on what percentage of our sales come from which vendor, and applied that to OneBookShelf's royalty rates, it would sort out like this:

If we sign a non-exclusive agreement with OBS at 35%, our actual overall royalty fees will see a net increase of 3%.

If we sign an exclusive agreement with OBS at 30%, our actual overall royalty fees will see a net decrease of 2%.

That, plus exposure to the former ENGS customers (albeit a small amount of exposure, but still likely an amount representing at least 3%), means that the DTRPG-RPGNow merger really won't affect our royalty fees in a negative manner at all, and in fact may generate additional revenue once we begin releasing more products.

So, no increase in pricing from SOS either