Re: New Books (Quality of)

From: Simon Phipp <soltakss_at_sKxsEiabIr0HkE4bs9iq85JHiyK8VeBLw_eJf5HljPJc4cr6GfbH4AEvho5Gl9y-1Gh>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 12:17:02 -0000

Rick Meints:
> The Champions of the Reaching Moon and Blood Over Gold books were
> both on very tight deadlines to try and get them ready for
> Tentacles. As the errors in format in both are uncovered they will
> also all get corrected. Only 40 copies of each book were printed.

That's what I thought.

> The printing process is such that these can and will be corrected
> before the regular printings are sold. Only a few format errors hit
> Champions, more with Blood Over Gold.

Good, as long as it'll be OK with the main run. A couple of people in my weekly RQ game on Monday said that they wouldn't buy Blood Over Gold if it looked like that. If it's OK, they probably will.

> At the seminar on Friday where
> both books were discussed I did mention that we knew of the most
> glaring font problems with some of the headings and page numbers in
> Blood Over Gold. Because of them, I lowered the prices of both
books
> by a fair bit. Champions was sold for 10 euros instead of 15, and
> Blood Over Gold for 15 instead of around 25 euros. In short,
> discount prices for useable, but imperfect products.

Ah, I missed the first half of the seminar so I didn't hear that.

> I take great care and pride in producing quality printed materials.
> I hated getting the books a few hours before I packed my bags and
> headed for the airport. I had a tough call to make, bring nothing,
> or bring something flawed, but useable and eagerly desired. I chose
> the latter.

Sure, I wasn't complaining as such, just pointing out the problems I had found. I only used a public forum because it allows other people to say "me too".

> Thanks for bringing this to my fuller attention, and discussing it
> with me.

We're not normally quiet about that kind of thing :-)

See Ya

Simon