Re: OT - Re: Pyramid, etc -- was: Re: [HOE] GURPS DEADLANDS DELAYED!

[Robert Holland <robert@macauley.com>]

> >So an honest buck for an honest digital product is fine by me.  And
> >I dare you to draw a sensible line between sunscribing to an online
> >magazine and paying for downloadable files.
>
>Easy - with one, I go to your site, look around for a bit and then buy 
>something.  A few minutes later, or a few days for a printed item, I get 
>what I ordered.
>
>The other is that I have to pay money before I even get into your website.

Your analogy is false. Have you even been to www.sjgames.com before badmouthing
it? I would assume not, since you insist that Pyramid is a house advertising
organ when in fact it says on the front page (in the publically-accessible part)
that it covers "Magic, Dungeons and Dragons, Rifts, Battletech, GURPS, In
Nomine, INWO, Shadowrun, Unknown Armies, Earthdawn, Vampire and many more."
*All* of the SJG site, including a complete product catalog, a buttload of
generic gaming resources, the Illuminator daily news column, the Warehouse 23
sales site (which sells a lot of non-SJG products as well, including Deadlands
stuff), and the dreaded Warehouse 23 Basement, is free except for Pyramid and
the Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society. You don't "have to pay money before
you even get into the website." Also, when you download on online book, you're
paying for one-time access--you download the book only your computer and that's
all you get. A $15 Pyramid subscription gets you weekly issues for a year, and
you can access them any time from any computer with your password. You get a
*lot* more for your money.

--Robert Holland