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Old 08-18-2009, 06:27 PM   #91
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Retroactively for those who bought everything as soon as it came out ? :-)
We got them first - isn't that worth paying extra for?
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Old 08-19-2009, 03:16 AM   #92
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Old 08-20-2009, 12:37 AM   #93
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As the df-series grows bigger... Are there any plans to allow "mass"-discounts for people who buy the whole series from e23?
Pomphis pretty much nailed this one -- doing that would be a small slap to everyone who bought the ebooks as soon as they came out. I'm not going to say 'never', but I'd be somewhat surprised. I think the books will prove their value equally well whether you buy them now or later, and whether you buy them singly or all together.
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Old 08-20-2009, 12:53 AM   #94
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I'd invest in a "subscription" of some kind for a discount on new releases.
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Old 08-23-2009, 09:00 AM   #95
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Pomphis pretty much nailed this one -- doing that would be a small slap to everyone who bought the ebooks as soon as they came out. I'm not going to say 'never', but I'd be somewhat surprised. I think the books will prove their value equally well whether you buy them now or later, and whether you buy them singly or all together.
Buying in quantity brings in a cash influx for the company. Currently there probably aren't enough items in the series to make it worth while to do this. I'd think something like buy 10 PDFs and get 10% off might make sense. Also as far as it being a slap to everyone who bought them as they came out, I don't see that as being a big issue - they get however many months of use out of those books, whereas someone just buying in didn't get the extra time to use them.

Honestly I'd think they'd do such a promo just for SJ Games PDFs periodically. Maybe during slow periods. Possibly during holiday. Maybe for a given line like DF or Transhuman Space (TS). For instance, I don't have time at the moment for a TS game, but if in the future I could buy 10 TS PDFs for a 10% price reduction I'd be far more likely to actually buy 10 of them rather than say 3-5 of them (which I'll probably do with the TS Personnel Files series).
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Old 08-23-2009, 02:54 PM   #96
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Honestly I'd think they'd do such a promo just for SJ Games PDFs periodically. Maybe during slow periods. Possibly during holiday. Maybe for a given line like DF or Transhuman Space (TS). For instance, I don't have time at the moment for a TS game, but if in the future I could buy 10 TS PDFs for a 10% price reduction I'd be far more likely to actually buy 10 of them rather than say 3-5 of them (which I'll probably do with the TS Personnel Files series).
I picked up all the TS books during a W23 10% off sale, oddly enough. Granted, it took a while to get 'em, because some were On Order and by the time those came in, something else had run out...but I did get 'em. ;)
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Old 08-24-2009, 05:02 AM   #97
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Pomphis pretty much nailed this one -- doing that would be a small slap to everyone who bought the ebooks as soon as they came out.
not necessarily...
well, I don't know how flexible the e23-system is, but theoretically it would be easy to allow discounts even retroactively for the people who already bought the pdf's:
this could happen in the way that further volumes would be somewhat cheaper if specific account x already bought volumes 1+2+3+4, ....

also discount-bundles for products that have been on the market for a longer time are not uncommon... ;)

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Old 08-24-2009, 06:39 AM   #98
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In the print world, books tend to cost less as they get older. I wouldn't feel slapped in the face if this happened in the world of pdfs too.
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Old 08-24-2009, 03:05 PM   #99
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In the print world, books tend to cost less as they get older. I wouldn't feel slapped in the face if this happened in the world of pdfs too.
Exactly.



Old stock depreciates, unless it's limited, fine, and improves with age, like some wine. That's just a rule of doing business. Customers who think that future customers should pay what they paid are being unrealistic. Being first in the queue is a privilege. For movies and books, this means being hip, up-to-date, and enjoying the fiction spoiler-free. For game supplements, this means having the latest rules and stats, and being able to point to a published supplement when somebody doesn't believe that your new, cool ability is "legal." So it goes.

That doesn't stop people from being silly, of course. Shoot, I knew a guy who seriously believed than his decade-old computer ought to be replaced at its purchase value by insurance. His insurance company felt that its functionality ought to be replaced. The law sided with the insurance company, and secretly, so did I. You want state of the art, you buy new. You want cheap, you wait. It's really simple.
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Old 08-25-2009, 03:27 AM   #100
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I will second interest in some manner of subscription. Obviously new DF PDFs (heh) come out less often than Pyramid, but I've certainly picked up every new one as its come out.
The setup for such a thing seems trickier though (because of the previously mentioned irregularity). Perhaps easier would be the ability to say "Yes, I want to hear the very instant the next one becomes available".
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