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2018-04-30, 07:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Prequel Book! Order of the Stick: Good Deeds Gone Unpunished (Book 1/2)
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2018-04-30, 07:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-04-30, 07:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Prequel Book! Order of the Stick: Good Deeds Gone Unpunished (Book 1/2)
Hey Giant, the picture in the news post on the front page links to AMFES (Winter) at Gumroad, not to GDGU. The link in the news post on the front page to GDGU at Gumroad does work, however.
Last edited by Dr. Gamera; 2018-04-30 at 07:43 PM.
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2018-05-01, 02:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Prequel Book! Order of the Stick: Good Deeds Gone Unpunished (Book 1/2)
Preordered! I've waited for this moment since I heard the Kickstarter backers gushing over How the Paladin Got His Scar. Why didn't I back the Kickstarter, you ask? Because I was on an Order of the Stick hiatus at the time so I'd have a bunch of strips to read through when I got back. Which I did right after the Kickstarter finished. Since then I haven't dared go on another hiatus.
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2018-05-01, 07:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Prequel Book! Order of the Stick: Good Deeds Gone Unpunished (Book 1/2)
Yes!
Pre-ordered both physical and digital!
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2018-05-01, 10:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Prequel Book! Order of the Stick: Good Deeds Gone Unpunished (Book 1/2)
This probably isn't going to win me any popularity points, but I don't really understand the logic of not releasing a digital product until the physical product has already been shipped and likely to have already reached some people. The digital product doesn't need to go through a printing process and have a bunch of logistical details worked out like where to store it, etc etc. It's just ready, and can be sent out once the actual comics in question have been completed and collected into a readable data format.
I've heard before that it's being done to be 'fair' to the people who are ordering the physical books, but what fairness are we talking about? The fairness of avoiding spoilers from the stories? The fairness of not having to know the people who paid for the digital product got it faster, because that's the nature of digital media?
But, I thought a large part of the appeal of a physical copy was to have something you could hold and read without electricity or an internet connection, and in some cases, the knowledge that you supported the creator responsible.
Then again there might also be some business sense to it I don't know about, because I've never been in publishing before, and I literally have no idea what you go through getting all this done. Maybe you could illuminate me?
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2018-05-01, 10:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Prequel Book! Order of the Stick: Good Deeds Gone Unpunished (Book 1/2)
You don't want to undercut the potential pool of buyers for the physical copy of the book, since print run prices are strongly dependent on economies of scale. This is mostly because the set-up costs for a print run stay the same whether you want 10 copies made or 10,000,000 - it's only the cost for paper and ink that changes with volume.
Functionally, out of the potential customer pool for this book, there's three broad categories of buyer we're dealing with:
- A small-ish group of readers who will buy both editions.
- A larger group that will buy only their preferred format
- The people who don't really care which format they get, they just want to get it as early as possible
If the e-book is available sooner, then third group I mentioned would all buy PDF, instead of choosing to wait and get the print book. Depending on the size of that group, that could be significant drop in print copy orders, which would then narrow the margins that the Giant makes on the print books (potentially even to the point where it is not cost effective to print them).Last edited by Xianthe; 2018-05-01 at 10:56 AM.
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2018-05-01, 11:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Prequel Book! Order of the Stick: Good Deeds Gone Unpunished (Book 1/2)
Thanks! I've sent a message to Ookoodook and eagerly await their reply.
From the OP (bolded emphasis mine):
Originally Posted by The Giant
So, the PDFs are delayed in order to give the print edition an at least even chance of success against the digital edition.
I also assume (but have no basis for this) that delaying the PDFs also give Rich a chance to fix minor things that he might notice between now and August (or whenever he orders the physical books to be printed). If he releases the PDFs now, only to then notice later that a speech bubble is out of place (for example), he would then have a situation where the PDF and print versions have a minor difference between them. While he could, in theory, re-release an updated PDF to fix the mistake, the fact would remain that there would be a version of the PDF out in the ether that wouldn't be the same as the "correct" one, and I can imagine that'd be annoying (at best) for an artist.
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2018-05-01, 01:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Prequel Book! Order of the Stick: Good Deeds Gone Unpunished (Book 1/2)
Xianthe has it right: In order for the print run to work financially at all, I need anyone who might be interested in print to buy print. There is a minimum number which I need paper pre-orders to reach by June 1st or else there will be no print run at all, because I will not have the funds to pay for it. Given that the PDF already has a significant price advantage over print, if I also gave it a speed advantage then a large portion of people who don't care either way would be heavily incentivized to buy a PDF, which would raise the possibility that the book print run would not even happen.
So no, it's not about fairness, it's about the financial realities of printing.Rich Burlew
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2018-05-01, 01:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Prequel Book! Order of the Stick: Good Deeds Gone Unpunished (Book 1/2)
I'm in for physical and digital! I love the convenience of reading on screens and the smell of the paper. If they could duplicate that smell on an iPad, I might go all digital.
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2018-05-01, 02:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Prequel Book! Order of the Stick: Good Deeds Gone Unpunished (Book 1/2)
Pre-order in.
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2018-05-01, 03:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Prequel Book! Order of the Stick: Good Deeds Gone Unpunished (Book 1/2)
Ordered both. And while I know you can't influence it and it always the same (which is why it's featured in the FAQ) I am really astonished by the incredibly high shipping costs.
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2018-05-01, 03:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Prequel Book! Order of the Stick: Good Deeds Gone Unpunished (Book 1/2)
I would just like to inform you that I shall not be buying this book.
Because a friend just bought it for me as a birthday present.Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.
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2018-05-01, 04:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Prequel Book! Order of the Stick: Good Deeds Gone Unpunished (Book 1/2)
yes. *dances a happy dance*
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2018-05-01, 10:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Prequel Book! Order of the Stick: Good Deeds Gone Unpunished (Book 1/2)
Strange to see all Azure City folks and not Hinjo. Is he part of the other stories, or did he just not make the cut?
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2018-05-01, 10:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Prequel Book! Order of the Stick: Good Deeds Gone Unpunished (Book 1/2)
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2018-05-01, 10:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Prequel Book! Order of the Stick: Good Deeds Gone Unpunished (Book 1/2)
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2018-05-01, 10:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-05-01, 10:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Prequel Book! Order of the Stick: Good Deeds Gone Unpunished (Book 1/2)
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2018-05-01, 11:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Prequel Book! Order of the Stick: Good Deeds Gone Unpunished (Book 1/2)
Makes no sense to me. Most parts of Canada with a substantial population are closer to the US than the US West Coast is to the US East Coast. I've bought plenty of books across international borders without $20-$40 shipping costs.
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2018-05-02, 07:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Prequel Book! Order of the Stick: Good Deeds Gone Unpunished (Book 1/2)
Did you order those books from large retailers that have warehouses and bulk shipping to the country before being distributed? Because like Rich said, Ookoodook uses regular post office shipping, which is $26 for a small flat rate box. Large international retailers have warehouses that don't use the mail system until they're inside the country. Ookoodook does not.
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2018-05-02, 09:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Prequel Book! Order of the Stick: Good Deeds Gone Unpunished (Book 1/2)
USPS is remarkably fast and cheap. I'd imagine Canadian postal service is likewise. Customs would be the big hurdle, and large international retailers still have to deal with that.
Not saying anything one way or the other, I just wonder why it's so crazy expensive to cross borders when the logistics are theoretically already there and not too bad.Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2018-05-02, 09:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Prequel Book! Order of the Stick: Good Deeds Gone Unpunished (Book 1/2)
When does pre-ordering end? I'm moving in the beginning of July and won't know my new address until sometime next month.
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2018-05-02, 10:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-05-02, 10:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Prequel Book! Order of the Stick: Good Deeds Gone Unpunished (Book 1/2)
Regarding the preference in taking the PDF or print book, that's exactly my case: I'd rather have the book; however, international shipping to Brazil sucks so much (due to our customs) that I'm not willing to wait for 30+ days to get the book in my house. I'll get the PDF and, once I know someone in a trip to the US or Europe, I'll buy it and ask them to bring it over to me.
And I'm not a fan of having both editions - I really prefer the books. (I still don't have SSDT).
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2018-05-02, 11:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Prequel Book! Order of the Stick: Good Deeds Gone Unpunished (Book 1/2)
Having family in Canada Post... can confirm that the administration is stupid, and that USPS is way faster. To give you an idea of what we have to deal with here in the city I live in... mail going to this same city has to get shipped several hours to Vancouver to be sorted, then back here to be delivered. Because they shut down the sorting plant here.
So... no, sorry to say, but you've got the way better end of the deal down there. (It's still on the cheaper end of the spectrum, and customs is most likely the big hurdle... but, yeah, fast this ain't.)The stars predict tomorrow you'll wake up, do a bunch of stuff, and then go back to sleep.~ That's your horoscope for today.
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2018-05-02, 11:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Prequel Book! Order of the Stick: Good Deeds Gone Unpunished (Book 1/2)
Hey, we have that 'close everything and use one distro center' thing going too. They're talking now about closing all the distros up here except Bismarck, which will cover at least two states.
And Turin, check the rate for shipping SS&DT and GDGU together. That might work better for you.
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2018-05-02, 01:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Prequel Book! Order of the Stick: Good Deeds Gone Unpunished (Book 1/2)
Rich Burlew
Now Available: 2023 OOTS Holiday Ornament plus a big pile of new t-shirt designs (that you can also get on mugs and stuff)!
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2018-05-02, 03:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-05-02, 04:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Prequel Book! Order of the Stick: Good Deeds Gone Unpunished (Book 1/2)
It looks like Shopify (which runs the back-end of Ookoodook's online store) is having some sort of technical difficulties. So if you can't load the page, it's not you, it's us (well, them), and please try again in an hour or two.
EDIT: And it seems like they fixed it already.Rich Burlew
Now Available: 2023 OOTS Holiday Ornament plus a big pile of new t-shirt designs (that you can also get on mugs and stuff)!
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