This is an excellent concept. At first I thought it was a pyramid scam, until I read the "about us" link on the site. It seems to be a good deal for everyone involved.
OK, so a publisher earns 65%-70% with OBS (OneBookShelf, formerly known as DriveThruRPG and RPGNow.com), while earning 75% plus a share of the profits (if any) with YGN.
Is there a set-up fee with YGN or could a proespective publisher get started immediately?
[url=http://www.pied-piper-publishing.com/]Pied Piper Publishing - Rob Kuntz's Pathways to Enchantment[/url]
dcs wrote:OK, so a publisher earns 65%-70% with OBS (OneBookShelf, formerly known as DriveThruRPG and RPGNow.com), while earning 75% plus a share of the profits (if any) with YGN.
Correct.
Is there a set-up fee with YGN or could a proespective publisher get started immediately?
There is no start up fees. However, since we are cooperatively run our current members get to choose our new members. That means we have a membership vote on any company that want to become a member and 75% of the voting members have to "yes" to that vote before a new company can become a member.
Seems a reasonable way to do things. Although I can't help but think of the muck-dwellers in Quest for the Holy Grail, "I thought we were living in an autonomous collective."
Seems a reasonable way to do things. Although I can't help but think of the muck-dwellers in Quest for the Holy Grail, "I thought we were living in an autonomous collective."
Heh. "You're fooling yourself."
"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek." - Joseph Campbell
Seems a reasonable way to do things. Although I can't help but think of the muck-dwellers in Quest for the Holy Grail, "I thought we were living in an autonomous collective."
I suppose that's better than "come see the oppression inherant in the system!"
ARTHUR: Old woman!
DENNIS: Man!
ARTHUR: Old Man, sorry. What knight live in that castle over there?
DENNIS: I'm thirty seven.
ARTHUR: What?
DENNIS: I'm thirty seven -- I'm not old!
ARTHUR: Well, I can't just call you `Man'.
DENNIS: Well, you could say `Dennis'.
ARTHUR: Well, I didn't know you were called `Dennis.'
DENNIS: Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you?
ARTHUR: I did say sorry about the `old woman,' but from the behind you looked--
DENNIS: What I object to is you automatically treat me like an inferior!
ARTHUR: Well, I AM king...
DENNIS: Oh king, eh, very nice. An' how'd you get that, eh? By exploitin' the workers -- by 'angin' on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic an' social differences in our society! If there's ever going to be any progress--
WOMAN: Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here. Oh -- how d'you do?
ARTHUR: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Whose castle is that?
WOMAN: King of the who?
ARTHUR: The Britons.
WOMAN: Who are the Britons?
ARTHUR: Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king.
WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.
DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--
WOMAN: Oh there you go, bringing class into it again.
DENNIS: That's what it's all about if only people would--
ARTHUR: Please, please good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?
WOMAN: No one live there.
ARTHUR: Then who is your lord?
WOMAN: We don't have a lord.
ARTHUR: What?
DENNIS: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.
ARTHUR: Yes.
DENNIS: But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting.
ARTHUR: Yes, I see.
DENNIS: By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,--
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: --but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more--
ARTHUR: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
WOMAN: Order, eh -- who does he think he is?
ARTHUR: I am your king!
WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you.
ARTHUR: You don't vote for kings.
WOMAN: Well, 'ow did you become king then?
ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I am your king!
DENNIS: Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: Well you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away!
ARTHUR: Shut up! Will you shut up!
DENNIS: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed!
ARTHUR: Bloody peasant!
DENNIS: Oh, what a give away. Did you here that, did you here that, eh? That's what I'm on about -- did you see him repressing me, you saw it didn't you?
Glgnfz wrote:are there problems with yourgamesnow.com or is it just me? i haven't been able to reach the site for two days now.
It's just you unfortunately. We're down right now, (sent an e-mail to our tech guy) but we've been up all the time (at least until I went to bed last night). I believe over the past 20 months or so our up time's over 99.99%.
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