Re: Wayland Games: Official Response to Games Workshop's Newest Trade Terms
Posted by Billiam Babble on May 24, 2011; 10:49pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Wayland-Games-Official-Response-to-Games-Workshop-s-Newest-Trade-Terms-tp6395016p6400803.html
If you're looking to PDF publish...
I'm finding Onebookshelf sites (RPGnow, DriveThruRPG, Wargamers Vault) very easy to use and publish through (I'm trying to sell through a few other sites but it's more difficult to manage). They now run a print-on-demand service (via Lightning Source). They take 40%, but the exposure is massive. What's interesting is that the small publishers are right up there next to the big publishers and the reprints of old rules. They also have a Top 100 Small Press list, so the little guys get exposure. After all of my floorplan stuff has stabilised, and I've put some stock art up, I'm thinking about publishing solo gamebooks (written by others with purchased stock art... I'll explain in detail another time), partly because I want to be connected to printed (bound) copy. My stuff is currently not appropriate for POD - since you download it to print repeatedly in colour or black and white - and they're not "books".
Some of these online shops (Onebookshelf, GamesForYou, Paizo) like to have a contract signed - that's the only fiddly bit (scan, post or fax). I don't pay anything to Onebookshelf, they just take a big percentage when anything sells. Royalties are easy to set up, so if members here got together to create their own systems that they wanted to charge for the income can be split immediate on purchase (which is how I get money from Vexing Sands, published by EVG)
I don't think anyone gets particularly rich with a few products but you at least get the kudos of being paid publishers/designers/writers, and your work becomes an archive of protest against GW. ;)
http://onebookshelf.com/
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Wayland-Games-Official-Response-to-Games-Workshop-s-Newest-Trade-Terms-tp6395016p6400803.html
If you're looking to PDF publish...
I'm finding Onebookshelf sites (RPGnow, DriveThruRPG, Wargamers Vault) very easy to use and publish through (I'm trying to sell through a few other sites but it's more difficult to manage). They now run a print-on-demand service (via Lightning Source). They take 40%, but the exposure is massive. What's interesting is that the small publishers are right up there next to the big publishers and the reprints of old rules. They also have a Top 100 Small Press list, so the little guys get exposure. After all of my floorplan stuff has stabilised, and I've put some stock art up, I'm thinking about publishing solo gamebooks (written by others with purchased stock art... I'll explain in detail another time), partly because I want to be connected to printed (bound) copy. My stuff is currently not appropriate for POD - since you download it to print repeatedly in colour or black and white - and they're not "books".
Some of these online shops (Onebookshelf, GamesForYou, Paizo) like to have a contract signed - that's the only fiddly bit (scan, post or fax). I don't pay anything to Onebookshelf, they just take a big percentage when anything sells. Royalties are easy to set up, so if members here got together to create their own systems that they wanted to charge for the income can be split immediate on purchase (which is how I get money from Vexing Sands, published by EVG)
I don't think anyone gets particularly rich with a few products but you at least get the kudos of being paid publishers/designers/writers, and your work becomes an archive of protest against GW. ;)
http://onebookshelf.com/
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