Good news and bad news

[ffutures]

Without me noticing, GURPS Vorskosigan has finally gone on sale in PDF. The bad news is that the PDF is $29.99

Think I'm going to wait for the printed book, it's "only" $39.99, a bargain by comparison, and ought to be on sale in the UK pretty soon.

later in fact Amazon are already listing it for pre-order for £22.03

Comments

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

That was pretty much my reaction: why pay as much for a PDF when I could get a hard copy for the same price?

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

Immediacy?

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

I suppose, but I'm old enough to wait. If I want a hard copy, it will actually cost me more to buy and print the PDF than it will to buy the book.

[w00hoo.livejournal.com]

Does look like unadultrated profiteering to me. They know it'll have a small but loyal commericial base, probably sufficiently fannish not to want to wait for the print issue to read it so willing to pay twice for the same product. So...

[draconin.livejournal.com]

Ok... I'm probably missing something obvious but "GURPS"? I wasn't aware that there was another Vorkosigan book due out.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It's a Vorkosigan sourcebook for the GURPS RPG. Basically, the Vor Role Playing Game.

[draconin.livejournal.com]

Ah! Not being into RPG that had not occured to me. Thanks.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It looks to be a VERY comprehensive guide to the Vor universe, so possibly of interest to non-roleplayers too, but at that price it's a bit iffy.