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Maybe  Nina Hess can help us get our Book Badge!
 

It's nice to see this.  I would think Wotc would want to put some focus on other products that are unrelated to 4th edition as 4th ed. sales go down in anticipation of 5th ed.  The novels line is a great place to try and pick up some sales and put some of those marketing dollars.

And we're really going to have to get that Book Badge! 

First Book Wyrms is up.  It's on e-books, a really relevant topic to us, considering we just read Shadowbane. Unfortunately, many of the comments that had been posted kind of missed the whole point that the column was about novels. 

Isn't it interesting that our last author (Erik) was the first ebook experiment and our next author (Rosemary) just put out the ebook novella.  We're really on top of things here!

Anyway, my real hope is that they'll start releasing some of this electronic content to DDI subscribers for free.  A novella (like Cold, Steel, and Secrets) would have been perfect to serialize in Dungeon/Dragon.  We pay a lot for that subscription and I really feel like they haven't come all the way yet it making it worth the price.  I'd also like to see maybe one backlist title a year free for subscribers (this would be a great way to get people to buy the rest of the books in a series by releasing the first one).  And, of course, I still don't get why they don't release old Encounters and other exclusive adventures as PDFs for DDI subscibers.

> And we're really going to have to get that Book Badge! 
Maybe we should contact these guys who seem to be much more effective then us at getting a badge made:

community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
 

Jan 17, 2012 -- 6:30AM, dadocollin wrote:

Anyway, my real hope is that they'll start releasing some of this electronic content to DDI subscribers for free.  A novella (like Cold, Steel, and Secrets) would have been perfect to serialize in Dungeon/Dragon.  We pay a lot for that subscription and I really feel like they haven't come all the way yet it making it worth the price.  I'd also like to see maybe one backlist title a year free for subscribers (this would be a great way to get people to buy the rest of the books in a series by releasing the first one).  And, of course, I still don't get why they don't release old Encounters and other exclusive adventures as PDFs for DDI subscibers.

I think those are great ideas - the DDI subscription does feel somewhat steep, especially as they've been paring features away here and there (for instance, I miss the downloadable all-in-one PDF versions of the Dungeon and Dragon magazines, and the new character builder doesn't really do it for me). Ebook bonuses would be a great way to give people extra value and get them to dip their toes into the water - you could probably convert quite a few people by giving away an occasional carefully-chosen taster and showing just what the medium was capable of.

Now, as for what I'd give for some sort of iPad app that combined a nicely cross-referenced adventure module with handy DM utilities... but I'm drifting away from the subject

Jan 17, 2012 -- 3:27PM, tsukimasu wrote:

Now, as for what I'd give for some sort of iPad app that combined a nicely cross-referenced adventure module with handy DM utilities... but I'm drifting away from the subject

Don't get me started on mobile apps!  They shouldn't even attempt to release a 5th edition without having things like the character builder and rules compendium available as mobile apps. They're already behind the game on this.  I'm hoping that they've been spending all their development on 5th edition apps and that's why we haven't see any in 4th...