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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jonny Nexus" data-source="post: 1477041" data-attributes="member: 14664">Mongoose books used to be printed in the UK, but I believe that they are now printed overseas. Generally, a UK RPG company is going to pick the printing option that will enable them to have the lowest price in the United States, since that is where they will sell most of their books.I know for certain (having attended a talk by James Wallis) that the original Hogshead (WFRP etc) used to print and warehouse their books in the US. This was because US distributors expect the RPG company to pay for all transportation, whilst European distributors expect only that the RPG company will pay for transportation to an East Coast port (i.e. the distributor expects to pick up the tab for shipping across the Atlantic). So if you printed in UK you'd end up giving UK distributors a discount they weren't expecting while also giving US distributors an *extra* bill that they equally weren't expecting.As regards prices in the UK:* We have the same editions as books in the States (i.e. we don't have separate local print runs).* There will only be a US price printed on the book. The UK price will simply be a price sticker that the shop have put on. (This is true even for Mongoose books).I can't give an exact conversion guide, but my copy of OGL Horror (bought around the start of the year) had a list price of $39.95 and a "shop sticker price" of £24.99, which equals $1.6 = £1. I think that is a reasonably conversion rate.(Software used to be notorious for having a one to one conversion rate. So if the American English version of a word processing program cost $200 then the British English version would cost £200. This was despite the fact that the "localisation" you were paying for consisted only of putting a British English dictionary on it and changing the default units to Metric - they didn't even reformat the default templates, so they all had margins of 3.17 centimetres).</blockquote>

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