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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arlough" data-source="post: 5878213" data-attributes="member: 79335">My turn to LoL, did you read?  The $25 is for for printing, binding, and shipping for all the books that came out in a year.Of course if you want to go by your estimate of $5 per book, I can adjust that number from $25 to $45.  That would strengthen my argument unfairly, though.Which would still be profitable in my estimate.As I said, I was basing this off of the fact that almost all of these books can be found for 10% - 20% cheaper than Amazon, who is already selling them for  10% - 30% off the cover price.  Since Amazon's business plan most likely does not involve hemorrhaging money, I feel pretty safe assuming the price they are selling the books for is at least cost.But you may be as in the know as you believe.  Can you point me towards anything that indicates the wholesale price of the D&D books published last year?Granted, I didn't account for server costs, nor IT. But given the number of customers they serve, they would have to have the most expensive IT department I can currently imagine being staffed by human beings in order to have the cost per person exceed $0.05 per month.Again, though. I would gladly review any references you have to the contrary.I admit being suprised that you have the gall to laugh at my logic while you propose a 49% tax on a web database and app set.  Even at 24.5% state and 24.5% local, that seems far beyond credible.If we accept your figures, then yes.  Your math is correct.  Your claims, though, I doubt somewhat.I will never disagree with increased quality, but it isn't nessasarily the fault of the book if it doesn't sell.  Betamax was superior to VHS, Sega was superior to Nintendo, the Tucker was superior to any other car at the time, yet all failed.Nonetheless, if they cannot produce a profitable product, then yes, the market will have spoken."Well there's your problem."Obviously, nobody in WotC or Hasbro has a shred of business acumen, or at least, they keep all those people in the mail room...No, I think instead we can say this. Obviously they believe differently than you based on the information they have available.So, Facebook?  Don't they have a D&D thing now. (I honestly don't know, I abandoned my Facebook account ages ago.)</blockquote>

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