PDF's of back issues

[firedancer]

Hi,

I've been recommended a couple of adventures published in Dungeon mag to fit into something I'm putting together at the moment.

One of the 2 issues I'm interested in is available in pdf, the other (issue 135) isn't, at this time. I probably won't buy print (shipping to UK almost doubles the cost in a tight hobby budget and I really only want the one adventure).

Is there a time period between initial publication and availability as pdf, or it happens as and when?

Cheers.

[Lilith]

PDFs become available as back issues get sold out - I believe that's the arrangement that Paizo has with WotC.

[Koldoon]

Lilith wrote:

PDFs become available as back issues get sold out - I believe that's the arrangement that Paizo has with WotC.

I'm curious if that's been quietly changed. I note a number of issues from 120-130 that have both printed and pdf versions available.

- Ashavan

[Vic Wertz]

Koldoon wrote:

Lilith wrote:

PDFs become available as back issues get sold out - I believe that's the arrangement that Paizo has with WotC.

I'm curious if that's been quietly changed.

Upon rereading our contract recently, we realized we'd misinterpreted a key phrase—it only considers newsstand availability, not overall in-print availablity. So we'll be buffing up the PDF selection over the coming months.

However, issues do still have to have been off-sale for at least a year before we can make them available in PDF form, and Dungeon 135 has only been off-sale for eleven months.

[AllFather]

Vic Wertz wrote:

Upon rereading our contract recently, we realized we'd misinterpreted a key phrase—it only considers newsstand availability, not overall in-print availablity. So we'll be buffing up the PDF selection over the coming months.

I am sure this has been answered elsewhere, but what does that mean after the apocalypse (the ceasation of publication of Dragon and Dungeon) for finding back issues? Will we still be able to purchase pdf back issues from Paizo as stock runs out of the print back issues?

[chopswil]

Vic Wertz wrote:

Upon rereading our contract recently, we realized we'd misinterpreted a key phrase—it only considers newsstand availability, not overall in-print availablity. So we'll be buffing up the PDF selection over the coming months.

How far back can Paizo convert Dungeon and Dragon magazines into PDFs?

will you be able to offer them after WOTC take stheir license back?

[Vic Wertz]

chopswil wrote:

How far back can Paizo convert Dungeon and Dragon magazines into PDFs?

Well, we have to ensure that we have the rights to republish each article, and then we also have to be able to create the actual PDF. For issues published by Paizo, we know we've got the rights, and we shouldn't have problems getting the original source files to create the PDFs, so those are fairly easy. Unfortunately, it's a lot harder on both counts as we go back from the Paizo era—and the farther we go back, the harder it is—so we'll see how far we get.

[Craig Shackleton]

Vic Wertz wrote:

chopswil wrote:

How far back can Paizo convert Dungeon and Dragon magazines into PDFs?

Well, we have to ensure that we have the rights to republish each article, and then we also have to be able to create the actual PDF. For issues published by Paizo, we know we've got the rights, and we shouldn't have problems getting the original source files to create the PDFs, so those are fairly easy. Unfortunately, it's a lot harder on both counts as we go back from the Paizo era—and the farther we go back, the harder it is—so we'll see how far we get.

Funny Thing.

I wrote an adventure for issue #76. I have somehow lost all of my copies. I have my original work still, but not the mag. I'd like to get a new one, but it's unavailable now.

I would rather have a pdf copy than nothing.

Consider this my permission to use it, although I'm pretty sure you're already covered for that anyways.

Craig Shackleton,
The Rambling Scribe

[AllFather]

Thanks, Vic. It would be a real shame in this world of electronic media to lose the gold mine for the game represented by Dungeon. The longer they are available, the better for the game and the better for the writers that contributed their blood, sweat and tears.

[kenmckinney]

I'm travelling around the world for a year. It's a great adventure (I've explored ruins in Cambodia, climbed a 1000ft high sand dune in Mongolia, and am currently in Siberia), but it's pretty much put a hold on gaming.

Knowing that I would do this, I haven't bought any of the Savage Tide adventure path. I won't be back in the states until Christmas, so I doubt that I will be able to buy the print issues.

But, can I count on (eventually) being able to get the Dungeon magazines that comprise the Savage Tide AP in PDF form?

Thanks,
Ken McKinney

[King in Yellow]

Will we be seeing a pdf of issue #94

I'd love to see that mindflayer prison adventure.
Been thinking about getting the issue for a while now.

[Vic Wertz]

I can't really guarantee that you will or won't see any particular issues, although if it was published by Paizo, the odds go way up.

[Amaril]

Vic Wertz wrote:

Upon rereading our contract recently, we realized we'd misinterpreted a key phrase—it only considers newsstand availability, not overall in-print availablity. So we'll be buffing up the PDF selection over the coming months.

However, issues do still have to have been off-sale for at least a year before we can make them available in PDF form, and Dungeon 135 has only been off-sale for eleven months.

Given the ending of the license, will I be able to get this year's issues as PDFs or will I have to wait until next year to acquire them all?

[Olaf the Stout]

Any idea if/when Dungeon #139 will be made into a PDF?

Olaf the Stout

[Vic Wertz]

Olaf the Stout wrote:

Any idea if/when Dungeon #139 will be made into a PDF?

It won't have been off the stands for a year until October.

[Olaf the Stout]

Vic Wertz wrote:

Olaf the Stout wrote:

Any idea if/when Dungeon #139 will be made into a PDF?

It won't have been off the stands for a year until October.

So there will be a PDF available in October once the year is up?

Olaf the Stout