DriveThruRPG Pioneering Digital Distribution for Out-of-Print Books

If you are into Dungeons and Dragons, Rifts, White Wolf or a myriad of other gaming materials, you are normally out of luck in today’s digital world. Finding an online retailer to buy DND source materials is like finding a needle in a haystack, it might be easy to find a pirated version, but not the legit edition. Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo and iBooks aren’t really in the business of selling source books or Monster manuals. DriveThruRPG has been quietly corner-stoning the RPG market since 2004 and is betting on the future of digital. In 2004, Mike Todd, Chris McDonough and Steve Wieck started DriveThruRPG. DriveThruRPG and RPGNow's combined efforts made both out-of-print and in-print RPGs easily available in electronic format to fans around the world. The company does business with a whose who list of the RPG world, including White Wolf, Wizards of the Coast, Palladium Books, and more. The companies main delivery method is PDF files that are watermarked and do not have digital rights management. Long before most eBook stores like Pottermore and TOR adopted the watermark approach, DriveThruRPG did it first. This insures that customers can easily transfer the PDF files between their smartphones, tablets or e-readers, by simply dragging and dropping the files. All of the RPG gaming materials are available not only in English, but there is a solid offering in German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. There are hundreds of eBooks currently available and the company does not do out-of-print editions but also all the new stuff too. The prices on the website vary, as publishers choose their own pricing structure. DriveThruRPG recommends 30% off normal cover price for new books and 50% off cover price on anything over 6 months old. Almost half of all the eBooks available fall into the 50% off category, which amounts to hefty savings to RPG fiends. I really approve of niche websites like this one, because they cater to a heavily populated segment of people that love RPG gaming material or play with their friends. They don’t really get much publicity in the gaming world, but are a very solid website to get a ton of great material. DriveThruRPG Pioneering Digital Distribution for Out-of-Print Books is a post from: E-Reader News

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