10-19-2018, 09:17 AM | #71 | |
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Re: Why no new GURPS hardcovers?
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The smaller reason is that we don't reprint anything without fixing errata. That, too, takes time. Most of the former Fourth Edition hardbacks were released in the first half of the period 2004-2018, so errors have been reported and accounted for. The huge number of PDFs we've published – particularly in the second half of that period – are still on their "shakedown cruise," really. We'd prefer to wait until the errata have been settled before offering them in print . . . and given the shortage of dedicated GURPS staff, we're not especially interested in or able to respond to a huge glut of errata reports intended to redress that. To be clear: There are no rights issues at all. The bottlenecks are PDF optimization and errata.
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10-19-2018, 11:09 AM | #72 |
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Re: Why no new GURPS hardcovers?
Kromm, It sounds like you are directly saying that there is no path towards POD.
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10-19-2018, 11:21 AM | #73 | ||
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In other words, the path isn't merely toward POD but already passing through the land of POD, and just happens to wind through a lot of longer, older stuff before it reaches the shorter, newer stuff.
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10-19-2018, 11:32 AM | #74 |
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Re: Why no new GURPS hardcovers?
Kromm,
Is there a reason why hardcover POD is not being offered? Virtually everything that I would order POD, I would want in hardcover. |
10-19-2018, 11:42 AM | #75 | |
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Into the land of my games Where the PDFs are printed And the quality's the same. There's a long, long night of gaming Until I get POD Till the day SJ and Amazon Offer dead-tree books by me.
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10-19-2018, 11:54 AM | #76 | |
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Re: Why no new GURPS hardcovers?
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Being hardcover adds something like $10 to the cost of the book. Being hardcover and color (as the original books were) multiplies cost of the book by about x2.5, so the price goes from $30 for B&W Softcover to ~$40 for a B&W Hardcover to ~$75 for a Color hardcover. That being said, the extra cost is largely born by the buyer not the seller, so the only downside to offering the option of Hardcover and Color Hardcover is having to set up the different versions of the file. This does cost time and effort which could be used to make different books available, so it becomes a matter of getting more 3e books (and maybe eventually 4e PDFs) available in PoD or getting already available 4e books in additional formats. Given that choice it's probably a better use of time to make more books available than fewer books in more formats.
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10-19-2018, 12:09 PM | #77 |
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Re: Why no new GURPS hardcovers?
I have no idea. I interact with the process only in the sense that I answer questions about errata, and then sum up the releases here. As I said upthread, print-buying and sales have nothing to do with me.
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10-19-2018, 12:50 PM | #78 | |
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That said, I am not a pdf fan because to let a player read something, I have to hand over my tablet which has everything else on it.
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10-19-2018, 02:47 PM | #79 |
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Re: Why no new GURPS hardcovers?
Say it a lot. But I won't hold my breath. I'll dream of it though.
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10-20-2018, 07:30 AM | #80 | |
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Re: Why no new GURPS hardcovers?
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Anyway, if anyone were to poll me on the question, my preferences are strongly toward softcover first of all, hardcovers an acceptable second, and PDFs a distant third. These are, as I recall them, the same answers that I gave back in 2003 or so. |
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