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Author Topic: Osprey only print copies of Lion Rampant on demand!!!???  (Read 4974 times)

Offline katie

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Re: Osprey only print copies of Lion Rampant on demand!!!???
« Reply #15 on: January 13, 2016, 08:35:28 AM »
" we’re working on bringing a lot of the older books onto this system as well."

That's good to hear!

Some of the older titles are awfully difficult to find. As a suggestion -- could titles be combined into volumes? So instead of having to find all (say) 5 parts of a series, they could be PODded as one book? That might help with the profit margin on them because you'd be selling more pages per binding.


Offline Nord

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Re: Osprey only print copies of Lion Rampant on demand!!!???
« Reply #16 on: January 13, 2016, 08:56:10 AM »
Shouldn't this be in the fantasy section?

I have to say that my order with Books Etc (and another 3 copies for mates) went fine. Ordered just before xmas and received it about a week later, so taking into consideration the holiday break I thought that was pretty decent.

Sounds like LR is the new Frostgrave.  ;)

Offline Vermis

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Re: Osprey only print copies of Lion Rampant on demand!!!???
« Reply #17 on: January 13, 2016, 12:11:48 PM »
Shouldn't this be in the fantasy section?

If it was Dragon Rampant, msybe. ;)

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Sounds like LR is the new Frostgrave.  ;)

Can we get a subforum for it? (Or, well, the 'D' one)

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Re: Osprey only print copies of Lion Rampant on demand!!!???
« Reply #18 on: January 13, 2016, 12:55:58 PM »
Can we get a subforum for it? (Or, well, the 'D' one)

Seconded!!  :D

Darrell.

Offline Nord

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Re: Osprey only print copies of Lion Rampant on demand!!!???
« Reply #19 on: January 13, 2016, 01:31:24 PM »
If it was Dragon Rampant, msybe. ;)


Whoops, got my L and D confused, I'll get me coat.  ::)

Andrew_McGuire

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Re: Osprey only print copies of Lion Rampant on demand!!!???
« Reply #20 on: January 27, 2016, 06:34:57 PM »
I discovered this phenomenon almost a year ago, when I ordered my copy of Lion Rampant - also from Books Etc - having failed to notice it was POD. It was news to the author when I brought it up on his forum.

More recently, I bought IHMN from another Amazon seller, and received it promptly, but after waiting more than a week - I know, terrible, isn't it? - for Heroes, Villains & Fiends to be posted by another seller, the normally very prompt Wordery, queried why it was still 'preparing for despatch', and received a reply quoting the text I had missed, to the effect that it was POD. In my defence, the text in question could only be seen by clicking on 'read more', which had seemed unnecessary, as it was clearly stated elsewhere in the listing that it was in stock. I asked the seller to explain this contradiction, but received no reply. I cancelled the order.

Oddly enough, I don't experience this sort of delay with Lulu, from whom I received a book today, less than a week from placing my order.
« Last Edit: January 27, 2016, 09:14:55 PM by Andrew_McGuire »

Offline Harry Faversham

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Re: Osprey only print copies of Lion Rampant on demand!!!???
« Reply #21 on: January 27, 2016, 06:44:19 PM »
Yep, the same old cobblers they gave me... after they advertised 'next day delivery'!

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Offline Little Odo

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Re: Osprey only print copies of Lion Rampant on demand!!!???
« Reply #22 on: January 27, 2016, 10:00:12 PM »
Wordery quoted me 7-14 days (to allow for POD presumably), but I got it within a week. Not sure what this says, but my tuppence.
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Andrew_McGuire

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Re: Osprey only print copies of Lion Rampant on demand!!!???
« Reply #23 on: January 28, 2016, 05:11:38 PM »
You probably got the one they were half-way through printing for me.

Offline throwsFireball

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Re: Osprey only print copies of Lion Rampant on demand!!!???
« Reply #24 on: February 10, 2016, 09:59:50 PM »
I mostly buy new wargaming books from Books Etc who somehow sell them for below the cost at which everyone else buys them. o_o

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Re: Osprey only print copies of Lion Rampant on demand!!!???
« Reply #25 on: February 11, 2016, 06:42:22 AM »
I mostly buy new wargaming books from Books Etc who somehow sell them for below the cost at which everyone else buys them. o_o

And the only disadvantage is that you have to wait. It's great if you're not in a hurry :)

Darrell.

 

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