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PJ Coffey

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Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
328 | Amazon's Secret Level, Elf Books for LotR, WH40K TV, Voltron, Evil Dead & More

And you can't now. It's legal in the European legislation as of today, in fact. Printed books, let's talk about NTTRPGs, printed books have to meet basic quality standards, like no faulty bindings or errors that could cause physical harm, like pretty much definition of low risk.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
328 | Amazon's Secret Level, Elf Books for LotR, WH40K TV, Voltron, Evil Dead & More

And you can't now. It's legal in the European legislation as of today, in fact. Printed books, let's talk about NTTRPGs, printed books have to meet basic quality standards, like no faulty bindings or errors that could cause physical harm, like pretty much definition of low risk.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
328 | Amazon's Secret Level, Elf Books for LotR, WH40K TV, Voltron, Evil Dead & More

Digital products, you must ensure they're free of harmful code, functional, accessible in all European Union languages where they are sold. And that is probably gonna stop me from being able to sell PDFs into the EU. Like I can sell you books, but I can't sell you PDFs. It's a big problem, and I don't know what they're thinking. I'd quite like to read an e-book or two.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
328 | Amazon's Secret Level, Elf Books for LotR, WH40K TV, Voltron, Evil Dead & More

Digital products, you must ensure they're free of harmful code, functional, accessible in all European Union languages where they are sold. And that is probably gonna stop me from being able to sell PDFs into the EU. Like I can sell you books, but I can't sell you PDFs. It's a big problem, and I don't know what they're thinking. I'd quite like to read an e-book or two.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
328 | Amazon's Secret Level, Elf Books for LotR, WH40K TV, Voltron, Evil Dead & More

I know Amazon's quite a big seller of e-books. So now Amazon is going to, what, take on, it's going to stop selling into the EU? Is that what they're planning? I don't know.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
328 | Amazon's Secret Level, Elf Books for LotR, WH40K TV, Voltron, Evil Dead & More

I know Amazon's quite a big seller of e-books. So now Amazon is going to, what, take on, it's going to stop selling into the EU? Is that what they're planning? I don't know.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
328 | Amazon's Secret Level, Elf Books for LotR, WH40K TV, Voltron, Evil Dead & More

I mean, you say that, it's like the one that Roe and Rook and Deckard are recommending online. They are charging 20 euros for registration and then 10 euros per month thereafter.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
328 | Amazon's Secret Level, Elf Books for LotR, WH40K TV, Voltron, Evil Dead & More

I mean, you say that, it's like the one that Roe and Rook and Deckard are recommending online. They are charging 20 euros for registration and then 10 euros per month thereafter.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
328 | Amazon's Secret Level, Elf Books for LotR, WH40K TV, Voltron, Evil Dead & More

Like, I would hope so. Yeah.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
328 | Amazon's Secret Level, Elf Books for LotR, WH40K TV, Voltron, Evil Dead & More

Like, I would hope so. Yeah.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
328 | Amazon's Secret Level, Elf Books for LotR, WH40K TV, Voltron, Evil Dead & More

Because that's a lot of money. 120 euros, the river stamp thing. Yeah. Like, not that, that, that. It's like each way of profits for any English. So this is, this is a terrible, terrible news for us.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
328 | Amazon's Secret Level, Elf Books for LotR, WH40K TV, Voltron, Evil Dead & More

Because that's a lot of money. 120 euros, the river stamp thing. Yeah. Like, not that, that, that. It's like each way of profits for any English. So this is, this is a terrible, terrible news for us.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
328 | Amazon's Secret Level, Elf Books for LotR, WH40K TV, Voltron, Evil Dead & More

Yeah, interesting stuff, huh? Yeah, I think it's the lack of being able to sell PDFs into the EU. I mean, I think having a complimentary PDF with your book purchase is probably something that would work. But yeah, if they're not buying a physical book, then it's a problem.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
328 | Amazon's Secret Level, Elf Books for LotR, WH40K TV, Voltron, Evil Dead & More

Yeah, interesting stuff, huh? Yeah, I think it's the lack of being able to sell PDFs into the EU. I mean, I think having a complimentary PDF with your book purchase is probably something that would work. But yeah, if they're not buying a physical book, then it's a problem.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
328 | Amazon's Secret Level, Elf Books for LotR, WH40K TV, Voltron, Evil Dead & More

in a little link, which I will grab and put into the show notes that we are putting together for our listeners, which we'll put in our little chat thing that you can see.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
328 | Amazon's Secret Level, Elf Books for LotR, WH40K TV, Voltron, Evil Dead & More

in a little link, which I will grab and put into the show notes that we are putting together for our listeners, which we'll put in our little chat thing that you can see.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
328 | Amazon's Secret Level, Elf Books for LotR, WH40K TV, Voltron, Evil Dead & More

I'll just post that now, actually. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, difficult post there. Oh, no, that's going. Anyway, so yeah, it is a problem. Are they really? I can deal with the physical books and PDFs, but going forward, I'll try through RPG. They're just going to tell you, oh, no, sorry, you can't sell to someone.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
328 | Amazon's Secret Level, Elf Books for LotR, WH40K TV, Voltron, Evil Dead & More

I'll just post that now, actually. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, difficult post there. Oh, no, that's going. Anyway, so yeah, it is a problem. Are they really? I can deal with the physical books and PDFs, but going forward, I'll try through RPG. They're just going to tell you, oh, no, sorry, you can't sell to someone.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
328 | Amazon's Secret Level, Elf Books for LotR, WH40K TV, Voltron, Evil Dead & More

I mean, I suspect the intent is so that if you're selling something with instructions, which is what they're thankful about, then those instructions are available in the languages in the country that's received as part of safety for those countries. Well, good. That is solid thinking. Well done. Love to see it. Right.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
328 | Amazon's Secret Level, Elf Books for LotR, WH40K TV, Voltron, Evil Dead & More

I mean, I suspect the intent is so that if you're selling something with instructions, which is what they're thankful about, then those instructions are available in the languages in the country that's received as part of safety for those countries. Well, good. That is solid thinking. Well done. Love to see it. Right.