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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 348889" data-attributes="member: 158">Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: 40 Dollar Cap?depending on who you ask, the RPG market has been artificially DE-flated for the past 6 or 7 years. Book publishers do not typically make the razor-thin margins that RPG publishers do - much less the crap-to-cream ratio that mass-market publishing has in it compared to the RPG market. The sheer fact that over the past 7 years or so, that we've gotten the quality of product we have as gamers, with the cheap prices we have had, is nothing short of amazing. Just compare the price increase of paperback books, hardcover books the size of our game manuals, and magazines all in the mass-market area. Prices have steadily risen over the past decade, while until recently the RPG market was flat. We used to pay $10.00 dollars for an INDESTRUCTIBLE Player's handbook or Monster Manual 25 years ago. a decade later a D&D manual that cost $20.00 didn't last us as long. the years 2000 comes around and we are STILL paying $20.00 for a product of equivalent quality? Something's amiss there. Thus, the $30.00 standard price tag we are starting to see is not that unexpected. We STILL want to see something special for that $40.00 purchase, but it's still not that big of a sticker shock, if you look at historical trends.</blockquote>