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[Infinitron]

I'm am fairly certain that if you did a 100% open and transparent Kickstarter/IndieGoGo just for doing a Hard-Cover Publication of the book, it would do very well (I know I would buy one for certain). Just list the cost to print the books (at various quantities), the shipping costs, and possibly use a fulfillment house to do all of the packaging and shipping for you (and their cost as well). And any proceeds left over would go to a charity.

Yeah, I'm sure that it would work, but I have to find trustworthy people to work with. Living in Brazil means I can't use Kicksatrter, have to pay a lot of taxes on foreign money and will have to deal with printing companies by phone & e-mail.

Not the easiest thing to plan, a lot could backfire, so I want to take this slowly. Everyone can download and read the .pdf for free, so lets focus on this first. The physical copies are just an (very cool) extra.

I hear there's a dude named Swen who is pretty trustworthy.

 

[felipepepe]

Heh, I know Swen is expanding Larian, but he probably isn't going into book publishing business...

What I'm trying to do, on the other hand, is to get the .pdf released on Steam. Now that would be sweet and reach way more people than I can nowadays. Also, I find the concept of a having a book on Steam's Early Acess quite amusing. :3

 

[newtmonkey]

Felipepepe, you are a true bro and this book is awesome. I know you posted an article about this, but love the screens with correct aspect ratio. Everything looks great!

 

[tuluse]

I mean just some print on demand service would be good enough. DriveThruRPG offers this as seen with Vampire 20th anniversary http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...sary-Edition?term=vampire+the+masquerade+20th

 

[felipepepe]

I mean just some print on demand service would be good enough. DriveThruRPG offers this as seen with Vampire 20th anniversary http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...sary-Edition?term=vampire+the+masquerade+20th

Yes, and that's why their books are so expensive. Amazon also offers the CreateSpace service, and I could make printed copies there, but a regular paperback edition would cost like $35-40 dollars each... okay for a commercial product, but remember there's no author taking a profit cut here, all goes to Amazon. Printing by bulk should allow for lower prices.

 

[tuluse]

I mean just some print on demand service would be good enough. DriveThruRPG offers this as seen with Vampire 20th anniversary http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...sary-Edition?term=vampire+the+masquerade+20th

Yes, and that's why their books are so expensive. Amazon also offers the CreateSpace service, and I could make printed copies there, but a regular paperback edition would cost like $35-40 dollars each... okay for a commercial product, but remember there's no author taking a profit cut here, all goes to Amazon. Printing by bulk should allow for lower prices.

I understand that, I'm just saying if you have a pdf done, just put it up on a site where I can get a hardcover version. I'm willing to pay the $65.

If you want to do some kind of crowdfunding to lower the price that's great obviously, but you just pointed out there are significant hurdles for that.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Hmmm... there are a few minor typos still to work out in the reviews I did, and I think I want another hack at the Space Rangers 2 review. I can make it quite better. Just having Scorpia in this makes me want to improve the quality. Great job felipepe and everyone involved.