01-02-2018, 01:09 PM | #1 |
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GURPS News updated
I've published the December 2017 update to the GURPS News. Yes, it's technically two days late . . . I was taking some time off! Don't forget that you can also subscribe via email.
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01-02-2018, 02:02 PM | #2 | |
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Re: GURPS News updated
Hope you took good advantage!
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However maybe this isn't a good idea with SJG handling GURPS PoD editions with CreateSpace instead, and there may be some incompatibility or something.
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01-03-2018, 11:02 AM | #3 |
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Re: GURPS News updated
Kromm,
This is the second time I'm aware of in your updates that you have mentioned PK is up to something big. Can you give us some hints? |
01-03-2018, 01:29 PM | #4 |
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Re: GURPS News updated
It seems PK is always up to something big.
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01-03-2018, 04:22 PM | #5 | |
Doctor of GURPS Ballistics
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Re: GURPS News updated
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The interior file I prepared according to the DTRPG guidelines did not work with CreateSpace. The interior files created with CreateSpace work fine with DriveThru. The covers, however, are different. LightningSource/DriveThru requires a blank box on the back cover so they can put their own bar code on it. CreateSpace uses the native ISBN/Bar Code that the customer provides. DriveThru also uses a special template. For my own stuff, I have taken to creating two covers (one with a blank white box on the back, the other with my ISBN bar code in it) or even three (because I no longer use CreateSpace after some truly horrible short print runs, and Publisher's Graphics uses different paper thicknesses, sometimes) and then ensuring that the internal margin requirements of the document meet CreateSpace's worse tolerances (meaning they force live text farther from the border and edge of the page). In any case, they're not 100% identical, which is annoying. The cost per copy for CreateSpace (and PubGraphics, for that matter) is MUCH less than DriveThru (which itself is higher than the same book direct from LightningSource). For a 62-page full-color softback with bleed, CreateSpace is $5.19, PubGraphics is about $6.00, and DriveThru is $8.77 - there's a significant price premium (and therefore profit loss for the publisher) using DriveThru for POD (though less than Lulu or other venues).
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01-03-2018, 06:34 PM | #6 | |
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Re: GURPS News updated
Hm... I hope this is just me reading too much into things again, but this:
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I hope I'm wrong.
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01-03-2018, 06:41 PM | #7 |
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Re: GURPS News updated
That was in the upcoming hiints so Im not worried about it yet,
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01-04-2018, 06:46 AM | #8 |
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Re: GURPS News updated
You could also read it "Production is going to be at a predictably lower pace now that all the up-front stuff is out, so it no longer warrants a full section of its own."
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01-04-2018, 07:29 AM | #9 |
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Re: GURPS News updated
I'd read my note on the Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game news more like this: "The Kickstarter campaign is over and we've delivered everything to backers. I'll keep this section around just until non-backers can buy everything from the campaign." Nothing more than that.
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01-04-2018, 07:33 AM | #10 | |
Doctor of GURPS Ballistics
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Re: GURPS News updated
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There's nothing more frustrating for a Kickstarter backer than to have things promised that are simply not delivered. Second in the irked category is delivered but late, with no visible progress being communicated. By highlighting "we said we'd give these things, and we're highlighting them to hold ourselves accountable for when we do what we say," SJG is just being a good corporate/Kickstarter citizen. Once the DFRPG is "just another product," albeit an awesome one, priorities and announcement style can return to normal.
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