DTRPG POD
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Prime_Evil
Emperor Mongoose
DamonJynx said:
Take a look at the blog of Louis Porter from LPJ Designs - he has considerable experience in the printing industry and has posted some video blogs where he discusses recent print samples from DriveThru and Lightning Source:
http://lpjd.blogspot.com/
ShawnDriscoll
Cosmic Mongoose
Prime_Evil said:
Looks like some horrible spammer for Kickstarter projects rather than any intelligent info being blogged about.
sdavies2720
Mongoose
Yeah, you really have to dig to find the pod blogs. I found the one for Lightning Source (relatively distinctive for search) but didn't have patience to wade through the search results to find the DriveThruRPG one.
Can anyone provide a direct link?
Can anyone provide a direct link?
As someone who works in the printing industry (I'm art director for a printing company) and someone who has received three PoD books from Lightning Source (SWN, before the Mongoose Version; Other Dust; and Shadow, Sword & Spell (softcover, the other two were hardcover)); I can say that I was very pleased with the quality. The one's I received were well made, as good as anything I've ever gone into a store and purchased, and by dint of being one state away from where they were printed (I'm in north georgia, they were mailed from middle tennessee), I received all three in less than a week of being ordered. Had them shipped Media Mail, and they arrived undamaged and well packaged, which is more than I can say for a few products I've received straight from game publishers.
I bought the Thousand Suns Hardcover B&W from DTRPG.
The look is good and it feels solid. It helps that the inside art is quite simple and doesn't "challenge" the printer too much. I haven't had it too long however so I don't know how well it would survive long-term use.
Overall I'm satisfied and I would order again.
The look is good and it feels solid. It helps that the inside art is quite simple and doesn't "challenge" the printer too much. I haven't had it too long however so I don't know how well it would survive long-term use.
Overall I'm satisfied and I would order again.
So (forgive my ignorance I'm completely new to this subject and I'm trying to figure out how it all works) how does an individual order a book from Lightning Source? Their website appears aimed at Publishers only.
Is it via the publishers website or one of their on-line distributors such as Amazon or whatever?
Is it via the publishers website or one of their on-line distributors such as Amazon or whatever?
