Mike Ventrella
Duke
A couple of announcements. Discussion welcome.
Cost Increase
Because of the increasing cost to print books, the Rule Book is being raised to $20. Sorry, I wish I didn't have to. I have tried always to keep the costs as low as possible.
This also applies to the Ashbury Player's Guide.
Ironically, my novel "Arch Enemies" is now being published as a regular title (instead of print on demand) and as such, the price has gone down to $19. Go figure. (Mind you, I don't set these prices, they are set by myu publisher.)
Downloadable books
I had made a deal with my publisher to have him distribute our books as e-books, which will increase visibility and make it easy for players to get a cheap copy for their computer.
Unfortunately the original idea (PDFs) has proven to be impossible, as the file would be just too big for downloading.
This means that the only other solution is to make the books available as text only, without any pictures or maps (I think I can include the charts though). My request for color pictures for the next Rule Book is thus no longer needed (although new pictures in general are always wanted).
Of course, the advantage of text-only is that it makes it very easy to search for terms.
So do you think people would want text-only books without pictures or maps? (I could add the maps to the web page and have a link in the book so people can download them separately.) And would you be willing to pay $5 for that?
Cost Increase
Because of the increasing cost to print books, the Rule Book is being raised to $20. Sorry, I wish I didn't have to. I have tried always to keep the costs as low as possible.
This also applies to the Ashbury Player's Guide.
Ironically, my novel "Arch Enemies" is now being published as a regular title (instead of print on demand) and as such, the price has gone down to $19. Go figure. (Mind you, I don't set these prices, they are set by myu publisher.)
Downloadable books
I had made a deal with my publisher to have him distribute our books as e-books, which will increase visibility and make it easy for players to get a cheap copy for their computer.
Unfortunately the original idea (PDFs) has proven to be impossible, as the file would be just too big for downloading.
This means that the only other solution is to make the books available as text only, without any pictures or maps (I think I can include the charts though). My request for color pictures for the next Rule Book is thus no longer needed (although new pictures in general are always wanted).
Of course, the advantage of text-only is that it makes it very easy to search for terms.
So do you think people would want text-only books without pictures or maps? (I could add the maps to the web page and have a link in the book so people can download them separately.) And would you be willing to pay $5 for that?