Which PDF Publishers sell direct from their Websites?

[HinterWelt]

You know, I just wanted to thank everyone in this thread. I am so tired of the other threads that I really do not post to them anymore.

I really like to be constructive and this thread is very much that.

Thanks,
Bill

 

[Jdvn1]

I'm very glad to see this thread is opening up serious discussion about alternatives that benefit both the publishers and consumers, be that their own e-stores, a co-op, or raising awareness of competitive alternatives like e23.sjgames.com.

Me too! This is exactly what I was hoping for.

 

[direpress]

removed by hinterwelt's request. because he's a good guy.

 

[HinterWelt]

Dire Press has sold through RPGNow in the past, and will sell through OBS in the future. We, like many other publishers, will not be raising prices on our products. Not one cent.

You are, of course, still welcome to visit our website.

Please stop. I am humbly requesting it. Do not bring this into this thread. Just a request.

Thanks,
Bill

 

[jaerdaph]

Just to be clear, this thread is NOT about boycotting OBS, at least not for me.

I've purchased great products from Dire Press and other publishers who are selling through OBS, and will continue to do so in the future. Afterall, I'm YOUR customer.

 

[HinterWelt]

Just to be clear, this thread is NOT about boycotting OBS, at least not for me.

I've purchased great products from Dire Press and other publishers who are selling through OBS, and will continue to do so in the future. Afterall, I'm YOUR customer.

That's what I was hoping for in this thread. I would rather talk about stores and what customers want to see than what you mention.

That said, I have also been looking at solutions like Monster Commerce (one the expensive side) but pretty impressive list of functions. We have a Paypal store for our print products right now but I am hoping for something more sophisticated for our PDFs.

Question: do people still used linklock?

Oh, an does anyone know if OSCommerce has e-delivery capabilities? I am not seeing them but I could be missing them.

Thanks,
Bill

 

[ZombieButch]

You know, I just wanted to thank everyone in this thread. I am so tired of the other threads that I really do not post to them anymore.

I really like to be constructive and this thread is very much that.

Thanks,
Bill

All kinds of good stuff, that's for sure.

As for a co-op, I'm afraid I don't have much to offer yet, but I'd certainly be interested.

 

[Steve Conan Trustrum]

I've been looking into direct sales for sometime and this thread answered a bunch of questions.

Bill, are you talking about something like a shared, independent site run by the members collectively or a frontend facade that links to and unifies the information directly from the members' own sites?

 

[ZombieButch]

Bill, are you talking about something like a shared, independent site run by the members collectively or a frontend facade that links to and unifies the information directly from the members' own sites?

The latter would be a heck of a lot easier to set up and maintain, I'd think.

 

[Steve Conan Trustrum]

The latter would be a heck of a lot easier to set up and maintain, I'd think.

I don't know ... maintaining a shared shopping cart would be a pain because the facade would need to maintain a pipeline to the members' individual databases. You'd also need to unify everything on the front end, because, while customers would enjoy being able to look at each product collectively at teh facade, they'd get frustrated if the back end required them to checkout with a new shopping cart for each member site they bought from.

Anyone know of a comparable arrangement around to have a look at? I imagine it would be expensive if there wasn't a software package that would let you set-up something like Amazon Storefront.