ExRPG Web Publishing

[Damxge]

Title says it all. I'm considering setting up a website with a collection of .pdf and various reader files of books written by non professional authors (and professional ones as well lol)

The basic price would be five dollars per copy, and unlike most of the publishing houses, the author would get half of the money for each sale, the other half would be used for forum maintenance and website upkeep.

This is a big thing, especially since the forum isn't as popular as it should be for an attempt such as this, but I feel that it could really draw in some great writers if they partner up with ExRPG publishing.

And, should the business be successful, it could progress into an actual publishing house.

So, discuss and such.

[Tsuki]

This is pure awesome.

[Damxge]

Glad to hear you like the idea.

[MrSage]

sounds brilliant ^^

how're you going to find enough people to give you their books?

[Damxge]

Deviantart is jammed full of people with finished books looking for publicity and attention. I figure I can start out with roughly fifty independently written books, and go from there.

[killer8529]

cross if you want i could have alot of people intrested in getting the book out there i think and i mean at least 10-100 people so i will see wont say anything yet because dont want to get hopes up

[MrSage]

Deviantart is jammed full of people with finished books looking for publicity and attention. I figure I can start out with roughly fifty independently written books, and go from there.

that's not a bad plan. i wish you luck!

[Legotransform]

Nice idea

*Floats in the air*

[Damxge]

*slowly pulls Lego back down*

@Sage, thank you

@Killerzor, PM me if any are on board. I'm going to begin working on the website and trying to scrounge up some scripts here over the next month. It should be online in roughly three months...

[Legotransform]

*Slowly floats back up and lays on mah back*

[cyclonecasey]

:palm:

[Legotransform]

[Damxge]

So, you guys like what you see so far?
https://i.imgur.com/7IOrT.png
It is far from done, I'm still working on the basic styling of it.

[Jīn Lóng]

Nice

[killer8529]

awsem i like and now i know about it all good i will get to finding people i have a few sites and places i will onounce it to people just asking with the pulishing will it have to be finished book or story or can they edit it

[Damxge]

They have to be completely finished.

[killer8529]

kk anything goes smut and sex and what ever else they can think of is that ok

[cyclonecasey]

hehee!

[killer8529]

wait till you see some of the storys i have read oh also can we have a bit for fanfiction writers

[Damxge]

There will be a section for literotica, yes. Though there must be a storyline behind it, it can't be simply all sex.

I'm in the process of writing the terms of publish.

[Chavvy]

maybe you should put an age restriction in there somewhere for the smut... Just to keep parent happy... you know the soccer mums like to blame anything regards they're childs curiosity XD

[Damxge]

Of course, a simple age form and 'I agree that I am eighteen years or older' checkbox will do the trick.

So I'm rather unhappy that I've been using tables to format the page, come to find out, its extremely limited. So I'll be redoing the whole thing using

instead; just as soon as I figure out how to use it :/

[Chavvy]

You'll get it in the end, just keep thinking about the end product

[Legotransform]

That always helps

[Damxge]

So this idea is changing. I was talking with a friend of mine while I was working on some css, and she pointed out to me, that I do not own the rights to exrpg.
This is a problem because, should the site become successful once finished, Drag could legally have be shut it down, or hand it over entirely to him. And while I know Drag is a cool guy and wouldn't do something like this, it is a huge threat to something that I've been working on for over a year. (that's right, I've had the idea and been thinking on it for quite some time,) Another possibility is that he coule trademark ExRPG and I would have to change a crapload of coding and such to separate the website so that I wouldn't have to hand it over to Drag.

I do hope that you don't take this the wrong way, Drag. You're a cool guy and a good online friend, but I have to be careful when dealing with things like this since there is so much on the line, and the possibility of the site becoming a business.

The new publishing website will be partnered with ExRPG since I have access to so much here, though it will be a completely different entity.

And that brings me up to date. What do I call it, and what should the color scheme be.

Please suggest.
(8-Bit Independent Publishing was already on my head, but I'd like a community driven option)

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