Online Markets
Nathan P.:
While we're offering up non-English sites, La Boite à Heuhh translates and publishes indie games in French.
A really big list would be a list of publisher websites, I think.
Devon Oratz:
Thanks guys, these are helpful (although I think I'll stick to English language/North American markets for now, in general).
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None of these sites are distributors in the sense that bookstore retailers use the term. Or do you mean free downloads? Some of the above sites include those too.
I meant the latter and momentarily spaced out on the fact that the word had two meanings. Sorry for the confusion. The thing that I currently have ready to go "out the door" is freeware, and since I don't have ambitions of seeing it in print (even POD), Lulu is not the kind of thing I'm looking for at the moment. (I was actually told about it being the way to go by Luke Crane at a panel at I-CON a few years back and have kept it in mind since then for when I want to get something into dead tree format). Likewise, I'm not looking for lists of actual dead tree meatspace retailers, although those too could be useful to me later.
I will look into IPR, Un-Store, RPGNow, and Drivethru RPG. (I assume it costs them nothing to "stock" your game if your game is PDF only. Does that mean that "selling" them on "selling" your game is relatively easy? I can see how that would be a dangerous assumption, so it's not one I'm ready to make yet.)
Anyway, thanks for all the suggestions!
Ron Edwards:
Hi Devon,
IPR does vet the titles they carry, although I think their list of rejected titles is short. The Un-Store is nothing more than a shared page for otherwise unassociated titles, in addition to wherever else they might be sold, and I think Vincent Baker is generally open to anyone as long as it's independent (creator-owned / self-published). You can check with him (see lumpley's profile here). As for RPGNow and Drivethru, I don't know their exact policies. At the moment I'm confusing myself as to whether Lulu includes PDF only products, but it costs nothing either way.
Best, Ron
Elizabeth:
Lulu does sell PDFs with a cut of the profits taken out. If your price for your PDF is free, though, obviously they don't charge you.
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