Sam, you mentioned on TMP that the existing print run of rulebooks will sell out after four months. I'm guessing you're ready to print more (with the errata), right?
Next print run?
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Posted 2 years ago #
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It'll depend on how long dealer stock lasts. Most of them seem to have sold all their initial orders and are now re-ordering, so I'm just now starting to look into options, and nowhere near a decision.
It's actually very complicated, very expensive, very time-consuming, and I don't want to make the wrong decision. Given the huge cost and effort, I would rather err on the side of running out, than on the side of mis-judging the ongoing popularity and demand, and thus getting stuck with thousands of books I can't sell. The downside of full-color hardback books is that you can't do Print-on-Demand at a reasonable cost. The only way to get the cost down low enough that you can sell them to dealers, is to print in large numbers, overseas.
PS - We also have about 100 "scratch-n-dent" books that we'll probably sell at a discount, while deciding on reprints and all that jazz.
Posted 2 years ago # -
In our Toronto group *most* of the people who want a copy of Lasalle already. I don't see us needing more than 50% of what we already have, barring an influx of new blood.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Must be a tricky thing to judge. It must help to have the experience of two previous titles I would imagine.
Also, Sam has the the rest of the honor series to start thinking about :)
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Instead of hard bound, might I suggest spiral bound? Should be considerably less expensive.
In fact, if your are considering offering a returned book that has its pages come out (but is complete otherwise) at a discount, why not offer to spiral bind it and then sell. Or barring that, offer it as is for the buyer to bind. that is something I'd be interested in.
Madcam.
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Alas, it isn't really that much less expensive to use spiral binding.
Posted 2 years ago # -
I would prefer just unbound pages so that I could put in sheet protectors and then store in a hard plastic binder.
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