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<blockquote data-quote="Mythmere1" data-source="post: 7696243" data-attributes="member: 26563"><p>So, as one of the owners, here's my two cents on the questions people have asked:</p><p>Points of Competition with OBS:</p><p>On day one, as Morrus points out, we're competing on technology with a company that has had years to build a fantastic customer-service and sales-maximization site. It is totally fair to say that our customer experience, on day one, is not going to match up with OBS. We will be competing based on publishers, content, and the fact that our physical product "inventory" is a different model entirely than the POD service that OBS has set up.</p><p></p><p>From the customer standpoint, those who are looking for the OGL publishers, particularly for 5th edition D&D, will find those products on Tabletop Library a bit more easily than at OBS. There will still be a lot of product overlap, but OBS has every incentive to focus on the DM Guild, and our group is heavily focused on the OGL side of 5e publishing. It won't really be a matter of two "camps," just a matter of each site having more weight behind a different 5e license. Also, as a less-major factor, there will be some dice and other fun accessories listed on the same site, which is nice.</p><p></p><p>For publishers, for non-5e products, the main benefits are simply the slightly-higher payout and the ability to use traditional print runs which go to a warehouse, instead of being limited to POD. Like Stan said, we're a bit more like Amazon in that way. Many of the publishers use higher-quality binding than POD, or like to use particular sorts of paper, or various other details that are standardized for POD but customized at print shops. POD simply offers fewer options than working directly with a printer rep for the publishers who go into detail at that depth. Plus margins can be higher on a traditional print run, if you don't mind paying money up front.</p><p></p><p>For 5e products, the "competition" with the DM Guild has more aspects to it. I prefer not to go into those, because if I go on at any length it will sound like I'm criticizing DM Guild, when I really think it's a great thing for certain kinds of publishing and certain publishers. The thing is, that for other kinds of publishers and publishing, the DM Guild is really not a workable license. That's all I want to say, because I'm a big fan of DM Guild in many, many respects. I just think that over time, OGL publishing is going to be the preferred method for 5e publishers, and as those resources build, TableTop Library will have a somewhat larger share.</p><p></p><p>There are already several 5e products on TableTop Library that aren't for sale anywhere else, and more that are only sold at TTL+publisher's site. There's a unique body of 5e products there -- it's small but growing fast. We had 5 publishers sign up within 1 hour of the initial press releases from Kobold and Frog God.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mythmere1, post: 7696243, member: 26563"] So, as one of the owners, here's my two cents on the questions people have asked: Points of Competition with OBS: On day one, as Morrus points out, we're competing on technology with a company that has had years to build a fantastic customer-service and sales-maximization site. It is totally fair to say that our customer experience, on day one, is not going to match up with OBS. We will be competing based on publishers, content, and the fact that our physical product "inventory" is a different model entirely than the POD service that OBS has set up. From the customer standpoint, those who are looking for the OGL publishers, particularly for 5th edition D&D, will find those products on Tabletop Library a bit more easily than at OBS. There will still be a lot of product overlap, but OBS has every incentive to focus on the DM Guild, and our group is heavily focused on the OGL side of 5e publishing. It won't really be a matter of two "camps," just a matter of each site having more weight behind a different 5e license. Also, as a less-major factor, there will be some dice and other fun accessories listed on the same site, which is nice. For publishers, for non-5e products, the main benefits are simply the slightly-higher payout and the ability to use traditional print runs which go to a warehouse, instead of being limited to POD. Like Stan said, we're a bit more like Amazon in that way. Many of the publishers use higher-quality binding than POD, or like to use particular sorts of paper, or various other details that are standardized for POD but customized at print shops. POD simply offers fewer options than working directly with a printer rep for the publishers who go into detail at that depth. Plus margins can be higher on a traditional print run, if you don't mind paying money up front. For 5e products, the "competition" with the DM Guild has more aspects to it. I prefer not to go into those, because if I go on at any length it will sound like I'm criticizing DM Guild, when I really think it's a great thing for certain kinds of publishing and certain publishers. The thing is, that for other kinds of publishers and publishing, the DM Guild is really not a workable license. That's all I want to say, because I'm a big fan of DM Guild in many, many respects. I just think that over time, OGL publishing is going to be the preferred method for 5e publishers, and as those resources build, TableTop Library will have a somewhat larger share. There are already several 5e products on TableTop Library that aren't for sale anywhere else, and more that are only sold at TTL+publisher's site. There's a unique body of 5e products there -- it's small but growing fast. We had 5 publishers sign up within 1 hour of the initial press releases from Kobold and Frog God. [/QUOTE]
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