A business question

[ioun_stone]

How much would you be willing to pay for a pdf only book of quality
d20 material? Magic items, spells, monsters, adventures, etc. Each
book being about 32 pages, little to no art, and cahock full of
usable, quality stuff. Kind of a "no frills" game product. Would you
be interested, and how much would you pay?

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

It depends on what the item is but, depending upon the quality of the material, for a 32 page PDF I would be willing to pay about $5 tops.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

32 pages? $2.00 is what I would pay.

 

[kenobi65]

Yeah, probably no more than a couple of dollars. $5 would be warranted only if it was exceptionally good, exceptionally useful content.

Also, what you're describing could be a pretty wide range of stuff...32 pages of magic items is going to be different from 32 pages of adventure.

 

[megamania]

Long downloads and my computer don't agree..... I won't even attempt a free copy-

 

[ioun_stone]

Thanks to everyone who's responded so far. I'm thinking about getting into the e-publishing game, and I'm wanting to produce good quality, useful material without a whole lot of extraneous art/fluff/etc. "BIG crunch, little fluff." is the motto here. Obviously content matters a lot. The more useful the material is, the more people will want it. Likewise, adventures will be of more use to some than just collections of monsters or magic items. The converse is true as well, though; I know many gamers who refuse to use printed adventures but will gobble up the latest spell compilation. This is all theoretical at this point anyway; its at least six months to a year until anything might come to fruition. Again, thanks for your replies, and hope that more will take note and we can open a dialogue here.

 

[megamania]

Sounds good.

 

[Shin Ji]

If it were me, I wouldn't pay a dime. Look what Frank and K give away for free!

 

[ioun_stone]

Who are Frank and K?