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Offline Defendi

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Lulu Paperbacks
« on: November 20, 2007, 02:40:09 PM »
Okay, I brought the Lulu Paperbacks online.  You can find them at:  http://stores.lulu.com/finalredoubt

Here are the three hitches:

1)  there are no Hardbounds yet.
2)  they won't be autographed.
3)  I'm not entirely happy with the quality of the greyscale images (including all the maps).  I'm not saying they are terrible, but they are often (not always, it's hit or miss) noticeably lower quality than the one's I'm getting preprinted.

So, if you are a US customer, I'd probably recommend against them.  If you are an international customer though, Lulu might have a printer near you.  The price of shipping could make those three points worth dealing with.

So, there it is.  If you have an exsting international order and you want to talk to me about it, feel free to e-mail or PM.

One other point, you might actually get the Lulu books a little more quickly, since the hardbounds aren't available yet.

In fact, post here if you buy through Lulu.
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Re: Lulu Paperbacks
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2007, 03:05:51 PM »
Are the Hardbounds being printed by Lulu as well or is ICE printing those?

I plan to preorder a Hardbound but simply haven't gotten that far yet this week.

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Re: Lulu Paperbacks
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2007, 03:15:08 PM »
Lulu will only have printed your book if you order it from Lulu (and eventually RPGNow or DrivetrhuRPG).  Any book you order from me has been produced by ICE's inhouse printer.  This is why they are higher quality than the Lulu books.  So if you order from me, neither are from lulu.
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Re: Lulu Paperbacks
« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2007, 02:21:43 AM »
I just double-checked the cost with Lulu for a order to Germany.
The difference is 11.50?, comparing it to the current fuel prices here, it is far less than 10 litres fuel.

I'll stay with the guaranteed quality (at least for this first product, which will be used most).

And remember that we will receive the orders from a different (european) printer than Defendi. So, the quality may differ (for good or bad).


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Re: Lulu Paperbacks
« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2007, 09:11:47 AM »
Do you have plans to do hardbounds through Lulu at some point as well?

As long as there are only paperbacks on Lulu I'll stay with the hardbounds from ICE.
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Re: Lulu Paperbacks
« Reply #5 on: November 21, 2007, 01:56:25 PM »
I don't believe ICE is selling our hardbacks.  :)

I WANT to do hardbounds on Lulu.  Unfortunately everyone I've ordered's been really poor quality.  If we can work out the problems, I'll offer Lulu hardbacks.
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Re: Lulu Paperbacks
« Reply #6 on: November 21, 2007, 04:55:04 PM »
I don't believe ICE is selling our hardbacks.  :)

I WANT to do hardbounds on Lulu.  Unfortunately everyone I've ordered's been really poor quality.  If we can work out the problems, I'll offer Lulu hardbacks.

Well I meant the printer :)
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Re: Lulu Paperbacks
« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2007, 05:47:23 PM »
Great!  Since I think you already placed an order, I figured you knew, but I didn't want to confuse others on what store.  :)
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Re: Lulu Paperbacks
« Reply #8 on: November 22, 2007, 05:44:33 AM »
Hi,

For Europeans it would make sense to be able to buy your hardcovers from ICE.

Reason: we can bundle it with other ICE products and by this reduce relative shipping costs.

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Juergen