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Guys - I'd love to take out a subscription, having read the Kuttner and Moore stuff, and starting to enjoy Brackett.
Here's the thing: living in the arse-end of the world makes shipping tough. If I can combine cleaning up the backorder of older titles with subecription orders for a while, thats great (but I dont know if your systems can handle an order "on hold" for a while).
Once I chew that up though, I'm happy to take an order shipment every 3-4 books to cut the shipping rate - is that possible?
When you place an order (say, an order for previously released issues of Planet Stories books), under the "shippping method" selection during the shopping cart checkout process you will have the option to set that order to ship with a currently pending order (if you have one), or with your next available subscription shipment (if you have a subscription). So if you want to by back issues (or other items), you can set them to ship with your subscription shipments.
However, we cannot hold subscription shipments for multiple months to then ship all together at once. If you have multiple subscriptions, you can opt to have them ship all together once a month, but not less frequently than that. If you want to receive a shipment every three or four months, then you shouldn't go for a subscription.
Well, I think that I will finally jump on the subscription bandwagon.
I have been trying to get my local Chapters (north of the border B&N) to carry the line on their shelves by ordering thru them, but it seems to be in vain. I also like picking them up at the booth at various conventions.
However, if adding it to my subscriptions will help maintain the line...
+1 Shackbro.
Something like that may work (I definitely like the idea of gauging people's interest online. Really, though, there's a "magic number" of subscribers at which point pretty much any book we decide to do will automatically be at least a little profitable, and at the moment I want to focus on getting to that number rather than waiting for customers to prepay for specific titles.
GMT's P500 plan for wargames is pretty simple: If you want GMT to produce a certain game, you register for it and commit to buy it, with a credit card or other commitment to pay. Once 500 orders are in, the game 'makes' and gets put on the production schedule. Once the game is ready to ship is when you get charged. The P500 folks get the game at a discount over MSRP.
GMT found back-when that 500 was their magic number for profitability.
1) We're definitely looking into getting some Planet Stories e-publishing going on, but those wheels are still in motion.
2) Direct RPG tie-ins aren't on the schedule right now, but you can probably expect to see the occasional easter egg in the future, and I know all of us would love to put out a science fiction roleplaying game someday....
3) At the moment, the only one of our books available through the Science Fiction...
Thanks for replying. e-Publishing is going to become a bigger and bigger part of things as time goes on. In some instances, it can be a substitute for publishing when you can't reach a market. For example, if you have numerous fans overseas, it might be cheaper to allow a lulu version that handles overseas issues right off the bat. In addition, it allows you to 'dip' the toe of potential readers by offering numerous freebies online. Wizards of the Coast has done this with whole novels and looking at the Kindle, other publishers and authors have as well.
In terms of a direct RPG tie in, it doesn't necessarily just have to be a direct tie in. There are numerous elements of the genre that continually crop up. Travel, vast travel, to places that are generally inhospital to live as we know it and generally have a much different social value, could be easily done. Haven't looked at my big old Pathfinder campaign setting in a while, but are there planets/worlds/timeline that could be used for such a whole Adventure Path? Are there things out there that may be coming to the campaign setting if only a bold group of adventurers doesn't make it out there to stop them first?
3. Yeah, I've seen that one. Good stuff to see C. L. Moore's work more widely available. In terms of different editions, any 'omnibus' editions in the works? Any comic adaptions? Many authors ranging from Dean Koonzt to Stephen King have their IP branching out to various mediums and all those mediums touch each other making the whole greater than the individual parts. I think WoTC called this the 'skaff' effect? If there are comics of Otis stories out there, they may draw people to the novels.
Hope everyone ejoyed their labor day.
Hey, Sorry to post this hear but am not having a ton of luck finding another way to contact planetstories. I have some shorts I'd like to submit to them for approval. If anyone can direct me there I will be greatful, and probably utterly ashamed for not having found it myself.
Hey Fafhrd - you can contact us directly at our various email addresses (for instance, I'm james.sutter@paizo.com), but please be advised that we are 100% closed to unsolicited submissions, and in fact aren't really in the business of publishing original fiction at all at the moment. Thanks for the interest, though!
I have ordered most of the Planet Stories for my public library. The Pasadena Public Library (Pasadena, Texas) now has 19 of the 21 books that are currently in print. The Seattle Public Library, which is the largest system closest to Paizo, only has 5 of the 21 titles. I hope they will become very popular. I intend to display them as part of a classic SciFi series of books.
I have ordered most of the Planet Stories for my public library. The Pasadena Public Library (Pasadena, Texas) now has 19 of the 21 books that are currently in print. The Seattle Public Library, which is the largest system closest to Paizo, only has 5 of the 21 titles. I hope they will become very popular. I intend to display them as part of a classic SciFi series of books.
Wow, thank you, William, that's terrific and much appreciated! If you set up that display, we'd love it if you'd send us a photo of it. Meanwhile, we are indeed looking into various ways to get Planet Stories into more libraries.
Thanks again!
We've got in our early samples of The Ship of Ishtar, which uses a thicker cover stock than Robots Have No Tails. I'm much happier with it. The rest of the print run should arrive around the end of the month.
I was mistaken... I wasn't looking at an early sample—the full print run has arrived. They'll start going out next week.
We've got in our early samples of The Ship of Ishtar, which uses a thicker cover stock than Robots Have Tails. I'm much happier with it. The rest of the print run should arrive around the end of the month.I was mistaken... I wasn't looking at an early sample—the full print run has arrived. They'll start going out next week.
WOO HOO!!!
Color me happy.
I got this in the mail a few days ago - it does look great!! The new paper stock is much much better than the one used with Robots Have No Tails, and with the interior illustrations this (The Ship of Ishtar) may be the best looking Planet Stories yet!
Now I can definitely say that I am a fan of the new format!!