mythmere
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Post by mythmere on Dec 11, 2010 19:36:59 GMT -6
Today has been quite a day. The Swords & Wizardry Complete Rulebooks went on sale today this morning.
About 30 minutes into selling, the sales volume crashed something on the shopping cart where shipping cost is calculated, so everyone who bought copies after that point will get separately invoiced for the shipping. Hundreds of books (not just rulebooks) got sold in this 30 minute period.
About 45 minutes into selling the sales and download volume started overloading the site itself, and the "buy" button stopped working. There was a work-around for this, fortunately, but only the higher-tech buyers could make it work.
Sometime around then the purchase button for the pdf also went down. We started directing pdf-only purchasers to Paizo.
Finally, we just told people to paypal Bill with their orders rather than use the work-around.
As the dust cleared, we have sold out of the hardcovers, although the exact estimate is between 90 and 110 sold before we pulled the trigger and stopped sales on the hardcover. We had a 10-hour sellout of the whole print run.
Some softcovers are still left for sale, although more than half were sold.
And we have no idea yet how many pdfs were sold. Lots.
What. A. Day.
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18 Spears
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Post by 18 Spears on Dec 11, 2010 20:12:14 GMT -6
My heartfelt congratulations to both Mythmere Games and Frog God Games! What a tremendous achievement!
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Post by Mr. Darke on Dec 11, 2010 20:27:43 GMT -6
A red letter day for S&W, indeed.
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Post by Finarvyn on Dec 11, 2010 22:23:06 GMT -6
Very cool, and congrats!
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arcadayn
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Post by arcadayn on Dec 16, 2010 19:36:51 GMT -6
Great news! Congratulations!
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mythmere
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Post by mythmere on Dec 17, 2010 16:00:32 GMT -6
BTW, we are now also sold out of softcovers, but more are on their way.
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Aplus
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Post by Aplus on Jan 21, 2011 22:15:39 GMT -6
I just noticed S&W Core books are no longer available on lulu. Is this because a 4th printing version is going to be available soon, or is it because core has been phased out in favor of complete?
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mythmere
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Post by mythmere on Jan 22, 2011 13:09:53 GMT -6
I just noticed S&W Core books are no longer available on lulu. Is this because a 4th printing version is going to be available soon, or is it because core has been phased out in favor of complete? They can still be gotten at the Frog God Site, or will be as soon as the page is up. These are the remaining ones from the BBP printing, and there will likely be a Frog God print run exactly the same but not with the BBP logo. That will come once the BBP ones are sold.
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