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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Monte At Home" data-source="post: 470493" data-attributes="member: 1335">I would hate to see the Top 30 on rpgnow go away or even be significantly changed. Personally, it would make the site a lot less useful to me as both a publisher and a consumer.First, it shows overall a good hallmark of quality. It's unwise to think that everyone going there has been there before. To a newcomer, it gives them an idea of some of the older, established products as well as the brand new ones displayed on the front page. This clearly happens, or I still wouldn't be selling my backlist products as much as I am.Second, it is still dynamic, just not as dynamic as it was. Bonds of Magic: Cabal just entered the list last week or so, and now it's up to #25. I certainly hope that with the release of Book of Eldritch Might III: The Nexus tomorrow, we'll get on the list with that one pretty soon as well.I don't agree that pdf sales windows are short. In fact, I'd say that they are longer than for print products. We're still selling 3-4 copies of Book of Eldritch Might every day, for example (from both our venues). And that's after 18 months. Sure, we were selling a lot more than that when it first came out, but that 3-4 copies a day has been steady for the last 6-12 months.As for sales being down, well, Book of Eldritch Might III will be a good test for Malhavoc Press. If it sells significantly less than BoEM II in it's first week, I'll agree. Otherwise, I'm not so sure. (Actually, I'm sure that overall, pdf sales are way up. They might be down for individual publishers or individual products, but clearly more people in general are buying pdfs than a year ago. We measure sales on a first day, first week, first month, etc. basis. I can tell you that, for example, Requiem for a God sold as well as If Thoughts Could Kill in its first week, so I'm not sure that sales for us are actually down.)I still think pdf is a great way to deliver a product to a consumer. The best thing about them, I think, is speed. You can be sitting at home, read about a product you like, and in 3-20 minutes (depending on your connection speed) you're reading it. That's cool. I'm also happy that it's a way for our products to reach people who live far from a game store.</blockquote>

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