Shared Publishing Center

[LordSmerf]

So as i read over Phillip Reed's Fun Size project i started to wonder: Is there enough interest to support a website that is dedicated to publishing compilations (probably as PDFs) and distributing the money to the contributers?  Basically i am thinking is a site that handles all credit card/PayPal stuff and write and mail checks distributed among the contributers according to whatever split they want.  The site would probably take something ($1?) from each transaction.  Basically the site charges enough to recoup expenses.  It is not really a business, more of a service...

I was also thinking about the NPA as well...

Is there already a site that does this?

Thomas

[Vaxalon]

How is this different from RPGnow?

[Jack Aidley]

RPGNow pays the royalties to one person only.

[Vaxalon]

Oh, I see...  Yeah, you want to see the distribution of the proceeds handled by the distributor, rather than the compiler.

[LordSmerf]

Ok, no one has (yet) chimed in to say "this has already/is already done".  So i am going to move on to focus on the question of use:

1. Are there any groups who would want to do a compilation, but have not due to difficulties in splitting proceeds?

2. Would anyone use this if it sold only PDFs of compilations?

3. Would anyone use this if it acted simply as a fulfillment house and handled shipping of physical product?

4. Would anyone use this if it handled both PDFs and physical product?

5. If you wanted to use this how much do you think it would be fair for the system to charge per transaction ($1?  $0.50?  $0.01?  $0?)?

6. Would existing projects (NPA, Fun Size, whatever else) be interested in signing on with something like this?

Any and all feedback is welcome...

Thomas