Dragon Compendium VS Dragon Magazine Archive

[Thrasymachus]

Gold Mine Alert
Instead of trying to guess what we want, just sell us everything. Especially all those "not available" Dragon, and Dungeon Mags.

Figure out some way to make it secure so ya know we're not sharing with the internet entire.

IMVHO, selling a program which attaches to our current Dragon Magazine Archives, that
(a) stops sharing
(b) allows us to add on the purchase of the new secure Dragon & Dungeon Mags from you. Adobe already has the technology.

Seems like a potential goldmine for you. I would buy my entire collection again just to have it searchable.

[Gary Teter]

You have no idea how much we want to make every back issue of Dragon and Dungeon available for download. Seriously. We're hot for it like pancakes on the sun.

However, Paizo doesn't own the rights to everything ever published in the magazines. For recent stuff, we do. But for a lot of the older content (e.g., 3.0 and before), we have to track down the original authors and get clearances. As you might imagine, that takes time and money. And material and verbal components, as well as XP.

Also we are not able to sell any issue as a download if we still have physical stock. That's part of our deal with those wizards, the ones on the coast. They are extraordinarily powerful and have awesome spells....

[Thrasymachus]

Gary Teter wrote:

You have no idea how much we want to make every back issue of Dragon and Dungeon available for download. Seriously. We're hot for it like pancakes on the sun.

However, Paizo doesn't own the rights to everything ever published in the magazines. For recent stuff, we do. But for a lot of the older content (e.g., 3.0 and before), we have to track down the original authors and get clearances. As you might imagine, that takes time and money. And material and verbal components, as well as XP.

Gary Teter wrote:

Also we are not able to sell any issue as a download if we still have physical stock. That's part of our deal with those wizards, the ones on the coast. They are extraordinarily powerful and have awesome spells....

It's amazing the range those Wizards have. I am sending them a nastygram about suggesting to buy all their "Sembia Novels" as a "Starting point to the Forgotten Realms Campaign setting", only then found that 2 of the darn books are out of print. Sadistic, just sadistic.

I bet if ya just started sellig those Dragon/Dungeon issues on PDF, all those hard to find author's would come to you, but I get ya that that would not be a good thing.

If I understand you correctly the missing authors are a key component, but if there was just some particualr wizard on the ol' Coast that needs convincing by all means, please give them up.

PS Thanks for the quick response. That was pretty amazing.