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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jraynack" data-source="post: 1145718" data-attributes="member: 13894">After reading Morris and his comments on another thread about spreading his wings and listing his products with SV Games, I began looking at other e-book distributors starting with SV.  I must say, I was rather disappointed.  Other than an order e-mail address, I found no other venue to contact them.  I looked and looked.  I may have missed it, but there lies the problem: If it is not simple for me to list my product with them, will it be simple for a customer to purchase my product, simple for me to receive payments?  I do see Morris' point and I agree, something is better than nothing, however we will not list with them until it becomes more convient and customer friendly.However, SV Games and RPGNow(though they are the best we have seen) are not the only alternatives.  There are other e-book distributors (though not specifically RPG) that do not require you to have IBSN numbers (though we at Alea are heading).  We recently signed up at <a href="http://www.ebookad.com" target="_blank">ebookad</a>.  They are not RPG but they do sell e-books (.pdf, palm, etc.) and charge a 35% commission without a lot of the customer service RPGNow provides (but similar).  Will we sell any?  Who knows.  But we will get exposure and if there are enough RPG products listed, they will proberly add an RPG category among their many categories.It also will let us expand beyond d20 or RPG products, which we also hope to head.As for James raising his percentage to match other distributors?  He may and that is his right.  We certainly do not wish that for, in our short time with him, we, at Alea Publishing Group, are thoroughly pleased.  However, with a sea distributors taking 50% commission, there leaves a lot of room for a new distributor to emerge that is satifisfied with only 35%, or even 20%.  That is the progress of capitalism and competition.  So I am not worried about possible commission inflation.Josh<a href="http://www.aleapublishing.com" target="_blank">Alea Publishing Group</a></blockquote>

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