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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mcrow" data-source="post: 2226317" data-attributes="member: 29117">the publisher getting a 40% cut on an rpg is pretty generous. I did some playtesting for the Roma Imerious RPG for a local inde publisher and he said on a $40 book the publisher was lucky to get 30% if they sell through the distribution chain. I think the split is more like 30% publisher, 35% distrib, and 35% retailer.  If you sell 1000 books @ $40 that = $12/book X 1000= $12,000 Even @ 40% you are only looking @ $16,000 on a 1000 books. 16k does not even cover the base salary for one of FFGs entery level employees for the year. So I doubt that a 1000 books would make a big difference in keeping DS alive. I am pretty sure that Roma Imperious sold more than a thousand books ( which is quite good for micro publishing company with only one employee) but this would be terrible sales for FFG who has more overhead.</blockquote>