[e23-announce] E23 Remains Independent

[e23-announce at sjgames.com]

E23 Remains Independent



We were almost as surprised as the rest of you by the OneBookShelf ad page (it's been taken down now, but was e23.rpgnow.com). We hadn't seen it. We had been asked if we would listen to a buyout offer. This is a business; we have a very good relationship with PSI, which is part of the same family of companies, so we said "sure, we'll listen."

We have not seen an actual offer. Given the news that OneBookShelf will be reducing the amount it pays to publishers, and given the unhappiness we have seen from some of those publishers today, we suspect it makes better business sense to stay independent.

This is not pique at the leak. These things happen, and we wish the new combined OneBookShelf, which is certainly many times our size, lots of luck. This is just "Now that we have more information, we think we will be more successful, and serve both the players and the other publishers better, by remaining independent."

Since we are not hiking our commission prices up from our usual 20%, Ronin Arts and other publishers will not be increasing the prices on products sold via e23.

Q) Has e23 been purchased by or merged with OneBookShelf?A) Nope. And we have advised them that we don't want to entertain an offer at this time.

Q) So what was up with e23.rpgnow.com?A) We assume they created it as part of a pitch to add e23 to their merger list. None of us ever saw that page.

Q) So, no commission rate hikes, right?A) We're happy with where they are now, so we'll be sticking with 20% for the foreseeable future.


– Thomas Weigel, e23 Manager
e23 at sjgames.com