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<blockquote data-quote="jgbrowning" data-source="post: 1644386" data-attributes="member: 5724"><p>Well as rough as this may sound to some retailers, I'm in this business to make money. I understand retailers desires to profit in the channel, but if the difference (between book and book+PDF version) is that a retailer can sell two of my products as opposed to just one product because I sold that one as a PDF, I get more money by selling the PDF.</p><p></p><p>I don't think my products are nearly popular enough for there to be any real negative impact in print sales to a degree enough to actually hurt retailers. I'm basically a self-publisher who writes very niche books. The retailers are only selling 2 maybe 3 copies of each of my books to begin with. Were I WoTC, the retailers points would be a lot more realistic in expectation, but to small publishers like us, retailers have to remember that it was the PDF that made me the money that puts those books on their shelves to begin with. So, without the PDF, there would be fewer books from me which would be more detrimental to their sales potential than books that are also available as PDF.</p><p></p><p>But anyway, I honestly don't think there is that much of a cross over between print and PDF purchasers. And if there is, that's a beneficial cross-over for publishers because It means I can make a sale <strong>twice.</strong> I guess (I have no data) that there are more people who purchase <strong>both</strong> versions of my book than there are people who only purchase the PDF version who would have purchased the hardcopy version if the PDF version was not available.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Hey thanks! I'd love to look it over as we're still toying with the idea of <em>A Magical Society: Imperium</em> but have put in on the backburner because it's a real research heavy product.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: In case this post came out sounding harsher than intended, I just want to clairify a bit. Without my PDF sales, I wouldn't produce (read as I wouldn't spend my time for such little profit) my books. The PDF sales are part of what drives my desire to put out books, because they make up a healthy chunk of our income and make each project that much more profitable. Without them, the retailers would have no product from us to sell at all, or at least would have less product. So I think that for us at least, the PDF sales benefit everyone involved.</p><p></p><p>joe b.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jgbrowning, post: 1644386, member: 5724"] Well as rough as this may sound to some retailers, I'm in this business to make money. I understand retailers desires to profit in the channel, but if the difference (between book and book+PDF version) is that a retailer can sell two of my products as opposed to just one product because I sold that one as a PDF, I get more money by selling the PDF. I don't think my products are nearly popular enough for there to be any real negative impact in print sales to a degree enough to actually hurt retailers. I'm basically a self-publisher who writes very niche books. The retailers are only selling 2 maybe 3 copies of each of my books to begin with. Were I WoTC, the retailers points would be a lot more realistic in expectation, but to small publishers like us, retailers have to remember that it was the PDF that made me the money that puts those books on their shelves to begin with. So, without the PDF, there would be fewer books from me which would be more detrimental to their sales potential than books that are also available as PDF. But anyway, I honestly don't think there is that much of a cross over between print and PDF purchasers. And if there is, that's a beneficial cross-over for publishers because It means I can make a sale [b]twice.[/b] I guess (I have no data) that there are more people who purchase [b]both[/b] versions of my book than there are people who only purchase the PDF version who would have purchased the hardcopy version if the PDF version was not available. Hey thanks! I'd love to look it over as we're still toying with the idea of [i]A Magical Society: Imperium[/i] but have put in on the backburner because it's a real research heavy product. EDIT: In case this post came out sounding harsher than intended, I just want to clairify a bit. Without my PDF sales, I wouldn't produce (read as I wouldn't spend my time for such little profit) my books. The PDF sales are part of what drives my desire to put out books, because they make up a healthy chunk of our income and make each project that much more profitable. Without them, the retailers would have no product from us to sell at all, or at least would have less product. So I think that for us at least, the PDF sales benefit everyone involved. joe b. [/QUOTE]
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