Collectively Owned Game Store Seeks Indie RPG's of Note
mogunus:
Hello! I volunteer at my local collectively-owned, volunteer run game store (no, really, here's our website: http://www.worldsapartgames.com/) and I'm trying to put together a section of print copies of some "notable" indie RPG's, along with a weekly "indie RPG one-shot" night, at which I'll run these games.
I know that we want to stock some titles by Ron Edwards (definitely Sorcerer and Spione), Dogs in the Vineyard, kill puppies for satan, the Burning Wheel, and Shock: Social Science fiction.
The problem is, there doesn't seem to be any good way to get bulk prices on these games for a retailer. And by "bulk," we're talking three to four copies of each game, maybe only two (we're a small retailer). The indie rpgs un-store has a "retailer portal coming soon," but until that gets worked out, what do people recommend I do to purchase these games? The problem being that I can't just use the unstore price four times, because that makes no sense, financially, given the store's budget and how we'd have to mark them up to break even.
We want to sell the games for a reasonable price, such that buying them in the store and not online makes financial sense for people, make a decent profit, and make sure that game authors get a fair price for a bulk order of their work. So, if at all possible, I'd like some advice on how to do this, and recommendations for some top-tier indie games that I should include in our section.
I'm sorry for posting in "Publishing," I know this is off-topic, but there doesn't really seem to be a forum where it is on-topic.
lumpley:
The thing to do meanwhile is contact those publishers directly. Their contact info should be on the unstore, or maybe they'll jump into this thread.
For lumpley games: drop me a line at lumpley at the gmail. I'll send you a link to my retailers' page for my games, no problem.
-Vincent
Paul Czege:
Hi,
Half Meme Press extends a 50% discount on the cover price of My Life with Master, plus shipping/handling, to brick & mortar retailers. Details here. If you require less expensive media mail shipping, I can do that as well. Email paul ++aatt++ halfmeme ++ddoott++ com
Paul
Noclue:
For Burning Wheel, there's distribution information here http://www.burningwheel.org/?page_id=58
SaintandSinner:
If they're carried by Indie Press Revolution, they give a discount to brick and mortar stores. They have a page on their website explaining the policy here: http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/pages.php?pageid=1
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