Moon Design - Printing update from Rick Meints on 2007-08-10 (World of Glorantha)

From: Rick Meints <rjmeints_at_ywHYT8YbQHVdz3z3HcoJslt9zUTlXXUhMcHfuBtOTviG08Q6RTBi6G0MOmPvhEvHkEQ>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:36:43 -0000

Hello all,

I've held off responding to the requests for an update on forthcoming products and other related news until I had a chance to sit down and work through the list of items more completely. Here's where things are:

Some bad news

In short, my (now former) printer has really hurt the debut of new books and my ability to keep prior publications in stock. I print all publications on demand because the numbers don't justify tying up all of my cash into large print runs that can take a long time to sell. Print on Demand (POD) was working just fine for me until the RPG convention season started in early June. My formerly reliable POD printer decided to promise books and then just keep saying "next week" while the weeks kept rolling by.

Here we are today. Champions of the Reaching Moon and Blood Over Gold are both waiting to get printed. History of the Heortling Peoples, ILH2, ILH1, Middle Sea Empire, and Arcane Lore are all almost out of stock at W23. I also haven't been able to get them printed for the overseas market, especially Europe.

Some good news

All of the above books will be available for sale as PDFs at DriveThruRPG.com as of this weekend. While a PDF is not the same as having a paper copy in your hands, it will hopefully allow access to the information until my paper printing is back on track.

Later this summer I will have a much better print and distribution system in place, where I will POD in the US and also POD in Europe. That way there won't be the extra cost and delay of printing everything in the US and then shipping it overseas.

Thanks for bearing with me and hanging in there.

Rick Meints
Moon Design Publications