Correcting one's mistakes

[RosenMcStern]

Well, people, you deserve two big praises.

The first one is for trying to host a printing facility in-house. As you said, it was an ambitious project, and one has to take some risks, at some times. I own only one of the in-house books printed so far, and it is not flawed at all, and better than the other ones not printed in-house. I think I'll miss your printer facility

The second one is for backtracking your missteps. This is not an easy task, as no one is without fault, but few admit it. [big applause]

Ok, now that you got the praises you deserved, any chance that all the other mistakes you made so far, like books that need errata and still do not have them, get corrected soon? :twisted:

 

[Osentalka]

I also want to thank Mongoose for their great job so far.
It was a nice idea to produce books in house, i am sorry that it didn´t worked out.

There are some minor flaws in what was produced (besides the printing quality in 2007), and i would have liked to arrage some chapters differently than Mongoose has (all magic in one book for instance), but overall i am amazed that a company with such a hard pressure of time can produce such well written books.
The last few books i read were Elfs and Dragonewts, and they are GREAT!

If you go on with such good writing, RQ should last many, many years.

I look forward to the upcoming books, and to the revised editions of already published books (i am sure that there will be such books eventually).

 

[Rurik]

It really is too bad it didn't work out. I was very excited about the possibilities of inhouse printing, and it is too bad it didn't work out.

As ugly an experience it has been I think the 'gooses have done the best they can at all points, first in readily replacing any bad books and finally in going back to what works. Best of a bad situation really.

Though the physical books were not as the original ones the content was much better for not having to be fit into the 96/160 page straightjacketed page counts and I hope that moving forward the covering the content is still the driving force behind page counts.

Hopefully this whole thing doesn't hurt in the long run.

 

[The Greek]

It looks like the page count thing is going to depend on the material, and not straightjacketed into a certain page count.

(Although I am not the boss I can confirm that future copies of the books we have already done are not going to stop suddenly half way through a sentence on page 96!)

Nick

 

[duncan_disorderly]

I'll add my agreement to the above. It was good that Mongoose tried to move production in house, and a shame they couldn't make it work. All the books I bought showed some degree of cover warp, but, other than the first, none were particularly bad.

On the other hand the contents of all of them has been between good and great, and none felt like they had been cut to fit a page count. I certainly hope that this quality can be maintained going forwards...

 

[The BoogerMan]

Yeah, I'll say that I know how hard it is to make a printing business work successfully (cuz I've been in the field in one way or another for the past decade). I also understand that it takes courage and some hard decision making to look at what’s not working, take the necessary steps to correct it, and push forward. As RosenMcStern said: big applause.

And, as some of the other posters have stated, I’ve been very pleased with the material itself. Yeah, some of the books I purchased had little bit of cover warp, but the content has been so good (especially when you consider the volume produced month after month) that I really didn’t care.

You guys just keep up the good work and just keep swingin’ (“Do the work Champ, do the work!”).