<< I am trying establish a set of categories for publishers and criteria for assigning those categories to publishers. I'd like to be able to acknowledge/catagorize all publishers without using labels like "fan" or "web only publisher."
So far I've come up with the following 6 categories of publisher. Ranging from Individualto Publishing House. I've also included examples of the type of publisher I'm intending to indicate by each category. >> Like alot of general categorization, you get some exceptions. For myself and Fantages Studios, I have some qualities, of the "Established", "Small", and "Individual" categories. While I haven't made any contracts yet with writers or authors, I will be contracting out alot of the work (primarily art, though some writing). I don't plan to have any in-house work done (for tax reasons primarily). All my work is being published under the name of Fantages Studios, rather than my own name, so I'm not really a Self-Publishing author. Rather than looking at how many products (and how they are distributed) a publisher has, you might want to look at how long they have been in the business and their general distribution (are they in book stores, hobby shops, web distribution, specialty order). One other factor might be product lines. Do they have a single product line (like a campaign setting), or multiple product lines (campaign settings, game systems, general supplements, etc). << Publisher Types: ---------------- * Publishing House (White Wolf). Currently has 25 or more products commercially available via Chain Stores. Has full time in-house staff and does extensive contractual work with well known RPG authors and artists. * Large (Swords and Sorcey). Currently has 10 or more products commercially vailable via Chain & Hobby Stores. Has both staff and contracted writers and artists. * Established (Atlas-Games). Currently has 5 or more products commercially available via Hobby/RPG Stores. Has both staff and contracted writers and artists. * Meduim (Sovereign Press, Thunderhead Games). Currently has 2 or more products commercially availave via Hobby/RPG Stores. Most work is done in-house, with little or no outside contract work. * Small (Dark Portal Games). Usually a small group of authors/artists that develop all products in-house. Generally only available via the web or specialty order. Genenerally no outside contract work. * Individual / Self-Publisher (Ken Hood - Sleeping Imperium). Self publishing author. Products are generally available only via the web or specialty order. >> -- Korath, Fantages Studios: http://wind.prohosting.com/fantages/ "He was already dead, he died a year ago, the moment he touched her. They're all dead, they just don't know it." --Eric Draven, The Crow _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
