FanPro LLC Expands its PDF Services
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Seattle, WA — Wednesday, February 1, 2006
FanPro is pleased to announce it has reached agreements with RPGNOW, Paizo, and Studio 2 Publishing to immediately begin selling PDFs of it Shadowrun®, and Classic BattleTech® products on-line. We feel this is an important opportunity to continue to expand and provide products to our ever growing field of high tech consumers; each PDF is bookmarked and fully searchable, making them extremely useful to hard-core and casual players alike.
This line will included both new titles, along with hard to find classics, such as Shadowrun’s Harlequin, Universal Brotherhood, and Bug City, along with Classic BattleTech’s Comstar Sourcebook, Tales of the Black Widow and the original Technical Readout: 3025.
This new medium allows FanPro to provide an economical way for our consumers to get many of our otherwise unavailable products. Additionally, such PDF sales help to generate consumer awareness and excitement, further enhancing our publishing lines.
FanPro LLC is the publisher of the highly successful Classic BattleTech wargame and Shadowrun fantasy-cyberpunk roleplaying game, both licensed from WizKids, Inc, and the fantasy roleplaying game The Dark Eye, licensed from FanPro GmbH. Since 2001, FanPro LLC has published and reprinted over 50 game titles, keeping Shadowrun and Classic BattleTech alive and thriving!
Studio 2 Publishing is a sales/marketing and fulfillment service who has worked closely with FanPro LLC over the last 2 years to bring Shadowrun and Classic BattleTech to distributors, retailers, and customers worldwide. Studio 2 Publishing is excited to add FanPro’s PDFs to its online store, studio2publishing.com, which already carries a complete listing of hardcopy SR and CBT titles.
RPGNow.com, a Wisconsin-base division of Minion Development Corporation, has been instrumental in the creation of the current RPG PDF market since 2001. As the market leader, it currently features over 4,800 products from more than 200 publishers, ranging from the newest Indie designers to out-of-print classics from TSR and even PC Software and music. RPGNow has served over 80,000 customers, with more than 2,000 new customers discovering the joys of ePublishing every month.
Paizo Publishing, LLC®, publishes special interest magazines and gaming products in the field of hobby gaming. Paizo also operates a full-line Internet game retail store at paizo.com. It is Paizo’s goal for every magazine and every product to be an event that encourages new and experienced hobbyists and fans to become more excited about their interests.
Classic BattleTech, and Shadowrun are registered trademarks of WizKids, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries.
