Dec Chat Transcript, For those impatient few... Options

[Ryu]

All this Earthdawn stuff makes my brain hurt. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif)

Are you having mental images of the dragons and elven woman? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[Adam]

Just for reference, if we offered a 24 page POD softcover book through LuLu, it would cost you $6.10, plus shipping, and we would see absolutely zero profit on it -- if we wanted to make any money, we would have to mark it up further. Note that it would be staple-bound, not perfect-bound [can't perfect-bind a book that thin].

The Lulu price calculator is here: http://www.lulu.com/en/products/paperback/..._product_portal

Obviously, if we printed 100 or so of them, that would push the price per unit down, but then we would have to ship them from LuLu to our warehouse, our warehouse to stores and direct orders, and it would get marked up each step of the way -- all for a few hundred dollars profit on our end, which frankly, isn't worth our time.

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Just for reference, if we offered a 24 page POD softcover book through LuLu, it would cost you $6.10, plus shipping, and we would see absolutely zero profit on it -- if we wanted to make any money, we would have to mark it up further. Note that it would be staple-bound, not perfect-bound [can't perfect-bind a book that thin].

The Lulu price calculator is here: http://www.lulu.com/en/products/paperback/..._product_portal

Obviously, if we printed 100 or so of them, that would push the price per unit down, but then we would have to ship them from LuLu to our warehouse, our warehouse to stores and direct orders, and it would get marked up each step of the way -- all for a few hundred dollars profit on our end, which frankly, isn't worth our time.

Thanks. I thought the books were going to be longer. I have no problem printing out 24 pages.

[BishopMcQ]

All the sourcebooks, novels, etc will continue to be printed. I don't see that ever changing. Adam did mention in the chat the possibility of eBooks for the novels using Kindle, the Sony system, or straight PDFs for people with ebook readers. That is obviously undecided at the moment, but it'd give me a reason to buy one of the ebook readers I've had my eye on.

[BookWyrm]

Straight PDFs make better sense. If you don't have a printer, save it (or have it saved) to a CD-Rom & take it to a local printer-shop. If nothing else, you have it backed-up.

[BishopMcQ]

Straight PDFs for the eBooks are the current standard, and unless Adam says otherwise, I suspect they will stay that way. The Kindle and Sony formats were mentioned for the novels only, by my understanding.