Curious about market size

To categorize the sales of PDFs...I'd be willing to wager that around 200 products on rpgnow have not hit the 500 sales mark.

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So a "successful" PDF product sells around 500 copies. At $5 a copy, that's $2,500. Not bad if it goes to a single person who wanted to write up the product anyway; otherwise, not so good.

Maybe it's best not to work on for a summer, but something for a month or so. Aim for a 32 pager or something. Looking at the RPGnow.com charts, modules don't seem to be too popular compared to 'crunchy stuff'. Also remember that it's going to take a while for the book to earn the money back, and each subsequent product you put out, if of excellent quality, will spur sales of your previous products.

While it's a small market now. I'm pretty confident that it'll grow bigger as time goes by, but don't quit your day job for it.