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Let OneBookShelf put your electronic gaming products in front of the widest possible audience. DriveThruRPG, RPGNow, and all of our affiliated stores represent the largest online sales venue for roleplaying games in the world. We are delighted that you are considering a partnership with us to sell your creative output. Just follow the easy steps below and we will have you up and running very shortly. If you have any questions not answered here, you can email publisherservice (at) onebookshelf.com.

Here is how selling through DriveThruRPG and RPGNow works:

• You sign up as a Publisher Partner - details below.
• You upload your products in PDF or other file format to our secure server, along with descriptions and cover thumbnail graphics. They appear as part of the searchable online catalog. (We expect all products to adhere to certain basic quality standards to protect the reputation of the site - you'll get guidelines when you sign up.)
• Customers can shop for and purchase your products using our secure and efficient online store system. We take their payment and send them a download link. Details of transactions appear in various real-time reporting tools available to you via your publisher account on site.
• You earn a royalty of 70% (if you are exclusive to our system) or 65% (if you choose to be non-exclusive and sell through other online stores) from your sales. Our fee covers our server upkeep, bandwidth, payment processing, marketing and customer service. With these kinds of margins (and no print costs), you can price the electronic versions of your products lower and still make a greater profit than you can with print sales.
• We send you a payment for each month's sales by check or Paypal by the 15th of the following month. To keep processing economical we have a minimum payment threshold of $100: if your earnings are less than that they're carried over to the following month.

How to become a Publisher Partner with OneBookShelf:

Create a customer account on DriveThruRPG.com. This account will apply to all stores operating on the OneBookShelf RPG network.

Take the opportunity to look around and see how it all works from a customer's point of view. Try downloading a title - you can probably find something you're interested in, even if it's a small free product.

Click here to create an account on DriveThruRPG.com. Make sure you remember which e-mail address you use for setting up your account, as it will be important in Step 4. We highly recommend you use whatever address you normally use for your business correspondence.

The Agreement.

We have a simple agreement to protect both parties. It comes in the Publisher Partner setup bundle; you can also just click these links and check out the publisher agreement or the non-exclusive agreement before investing in the setup package. Please sign the agreement and email a scan to (publisherservice at onebookshelf dot com) or fax (888-263-4087) it back to us. If all is in order, we will email back with confirmation.

Notify publisher service.

Email publisherservice (at) onebookshelf.com with all of the following:

1. The e-mail address you used to sign up for your DriveThruRPG.com customer account.
2. Your company name as it should appear to customers on site, so that we can attach that info to your accounts. As well, please provide a company web site URL if you have one.
3. Information on how and where you would like us to pay you - payable by check (to whom and what address?) or by Paypal (what Paypal e-mail?)
4. (Optional) If you'd like to participate in our private ePublisher forum discussions, which include up-to-the-date news for publishers, and marketing, creative, and general help from our other publishers and staff, sign up at http://www.rpglife.com/. Send us your forum username so we can set access for the private ePublisher forums, located here.
5. A company logo to be attached to your categories and publisher account. Please limit this to 175 pixels wide or less, JPG or GIF format.

We will then notify you when we have activated your account, so you may begine adding products to the catalog. Please upload new products by going to the "My Account" page, scrolling to the bottom to see your publisher menu and selecting the Enter a new product" option under the Product header.

Once you're activated, we encourage you to spend some time with the various options you have in the Publisher Tools section. There are five sections - Products, Promotion, Accounting, Sales Reports, and Help.

In Products, you can upload and edit your company's offerings in the store. You can also create special bundles that offer sets of products at special prices (and you can even partner with other companies to create bundles of complimentary products). You can also create additional marketing elements, such as using footers that suggest other products a purchaser might like or creating visual previews of your products.

In Promotion, you will have the ability to create special newsletter offers that go out to the customer base; send Complimentary Copies to reviewers and other folks with whom you want to share your titles; and explore Affiliate opportunities that will help you make even more money for your company.

In Accounting, you will find all the necessary tools to analyze your payments history, adjust your method of payment and other useful options for managing the financial part of your business with us.

In Sales Reports, you will be able to run the detailed reports you need to really look at your product lines and make good decisions about them, and where to go next.

Of course, the Help section helps you find what you need with a click to make your job that much easier as a Publisher Partner with OneBookShelf.

Below are some banner images that you can use to establish links to us on your own web sites.

DriveThruRPG

DriveThruComics

EcoBrain

RPGNow

As always, if you have any questions at all, please do not hesitate to drop a line to publisherservices {at} onebookshelf {dot} com. We are only too glad to do whatever we can to assist you in making money doing what you love.