I'd like to pose some questions to the d20 publishers in this list. I don't know any forum which could be better for reaching the most interesting and important ones all together... This is a really interesting subject really worth exploring more (for me, at least...). So I have designed some questions and I hope many of you will answer. I'll use the answers to write an article, in English (to be sent to En World, hoping Morrus will be interested in running it) and in Italian (for the www.dungeons.it web site).
Thanks to everybody in advance! Ciro In the past I have seen some remarks (notably by Ryan Dancey) about the importance of 'developing more' the European markets. Please note that the EU is not the US in 'Euro sauce': there is no single market for gaming products (due mainly to different languages and I know of no 'European rights' contracts in gaming business so far). The UK for the purposes of this survey is considered part of the US Publishing Empire for language and distribution reasons (for example, I receive the Mongoose book from Alliance/Diamond, not from Great Britain 8-]). 1) What is your opinion about European markets regarding D&D/d20 products in general? 2) Do European markets have a significant share of your overall sales? 3) Do you work directly with European wholesalers or are your company's products sold to European markets via US wholesalers (such as the Diamond/Alliance conglomerate)? 4) Do you have (or had) any specific policies targeting European markets? 5) Do you have any translation agreements with European publishers? 6) Were translations of your company's products successful? 7) When you plan a product, do you consider of significant importance the fact it could be sold outside the US and that it could be translated in a foreign language? 8) Have you ever seen original European d20 products in non English language? 9) Have you ever considered the idea of having European authors working on your company's products? 10) Do you see, in the long term, an integrated US-EU gaming market? _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
