02-28-2012, 01:32 PM | #351 | |
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I'm not saying that I think that's what will happen, but I think he makes a good case for why PoD might not be worth pursuing.
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02-28-2012, 02:16 PM | #352 |
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Agreed. All it will take is one decent e-reader and POD will be redundant. I still haven't found one that satisfies me but the latest generation is getting close.
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02-28-2012, 03:16 PM | #353 |
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POD is already redundant for people who are willing to use electronic materials, PDF might not be your favorite format but it can certainly encode anything that would be in a paper book. At that point it's just an issue of how much electronics you're willing to have at your table, and POD is for the people who don't want any.
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02-28-2012, 03:32 PM | #354 | |
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But as long as they do it well enough so as not to lose much money either way then good for them and us. SJG is I think one of the oldest RPG type game companies around. Certainly a lot of companies have come and gone since I started gaming. |
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02-28-2012, 03:51 PM | #355 | |
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I write my game stuff up electronically, and use some printed out and some on screen. I don't think a e-reader is going to wipe out POD, and I certain disagree with this idea of "people who like electronics" vs. "people who don't want any" as connecting directly to POD. Sometimes I just want to have a paper copy of stuff. Really guys, you'd think they were stopping production of paper and pencils by the way you're talking. Setting up POD might not be the most profitable use of SJG's time but it doesn't make folks like me who'd like nicely printed copies of our game materials luddites.
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02-28-2012, 04:13 PM | #356 | |
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At the same time time I love paper. I love how it feels in the hand. I love how it looks displayed on a shelf. And I vastly prefer having real books around the gaming table. When I first got the internet in the mid 90's the first thing I did with it was start tracking down gaming stores online to buy OOP GURPS books. Today I own every "POD" book that SJGames has put out, despite also having all the PDFs. I've printed out most of the PDFs that SJGames hasn't done "PODs" with, and would gladly buy most electronic releases in POD. I feel that there's still a market for printed books. I think that SJGames is missing out on an opportunity here; even if they don't want to do in-house POD due to costs they could easily hook up with a company like Lulu to supply PODs. I also think there's a significant sentiment among many fans that they either don't like PDFs or don't want to pay for them (sometimes even downloading them illegally) but would happily buy POD versions of the same books.
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02-28-2012, 04:28 PM | #357 | |
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I did buy a laser printer for PDFs, though I got a cheap b&W instead of a color model. |
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02-28-2012, 04:56 PM | #358 |
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02-28-2012, 10:44 PM | #359 | |
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Hey, I'm right there with you. I own well over a thousand physical books, and I'd accumulate more if it were practical. In fact, although I recently decided to mostly stop buying hardbacks (in favor of ebooks), I'm still buying paperbacks...mostly because that's how the economics break right now. Ebooks get priced lower than hardback street price but equal to paperback MSRP, so that just makes sense. I can fit lifetimes of reading onto a chip the size of my thumbnail and jack it into a nice tablet or e-reader...hard to argue with that when physical storage space is an issue. That said, I really love the advantage of not having my players know what I'm up to when I reach for a given book. I like being able to tag books as belonging to different "libraries" for cross-reference. And, of course, I love not having to wonder if I should bring a second book with me because I'm almost finished with this one. Oh, I'll still be buying physical books for a while...but as collectibles to get signed, or because the e-conomics haven't balanced out yet. Doesn't mean I dislike my paper... |
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02-29-2012, 04:06 PM | #360 | |
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(And, much like In Nomine and Car Wars are now products for niche markets, I would hate to see these niche markets go away.) I can also see POD being done at the customer's end rather than at the publisher's end, at boutique shops that do nothing but POD and copy shops that offer a less-expensive but less-customizable service.
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