>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 >available 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.
you seem to be implicitly only looking at the D20 side of things with your examples--Atlas is *way* bigger and more established than SSS. is that [D20-only] intentional, or just poor examples on your part? not sure the destinction between "Small" and and "Individual" is meaningful--1 person or 4, if it's a bunch of all-in-house works released directly, for little or no profit, it seems pretty much the same thing. similarly, the distinction between "Small" and "Medium" tends to be fuzzy--lots of "Small" publishers want to be "Medium" publishers, and just haven't managed to scrape up the cash or distribution to get into game stores. [though, i suspect that that is in the process of changing, with web-publishing becoming more respectable, and thus accepted.] -- woodelf <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webpages.charter.net/woodelph/ If any religion is right, maybe they all have to be right. Maybe God doesn't care how you say your prayers, just as long as you say them. --Sinclair _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
