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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seankreynolds" data-source="post: 260832" data-attributes="member: 3029">Re: Bean countersAre you saying that Lords of Rumness, a 192-page book that sells for 30 beans, doesn't make its profit margin? Despite the fact that it sold at least 4x as many copies as any other book in the Rums line a few years ago?If a Forgotten Rums book that sells 40 copies isn't a success, then the Bean-Counters need to fix what their definition of success is. There are a hundred Bee Honey companies out there that would love to sell 40 copies of their books.A statement which says that FR _does_ sell. Are you saying that the FR books aren't making their profit margin? That certainly is news ... books that go to reprint and yet aren't making a profit, very strange. Perhaps someone like the evil troll Feather-Line is involved somewhere? ><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Which implies that your margins are not satisfactory. Yet (in the story) Magic of Fae Rum sold 70% as many copies as the FRCS. Are those not satisfactory numbers? Are not the wicked Haze Brothers demanding ridiculous numbers of beans from the Wizards of the Toast, despite that the Wizards are earning plenty of beans, moreso than other mages that work for the Haze Brothers (in fact, especially compared to the other mages under the Haze Brothers who seem to be dumping beans into the sewer rather than earning them)?20 elves laid off in 2 years, yep.Been there, done that. Aren't the Wizards making books now that cost _45_ beans, because they know they will sell at those prices?So, by canceling the books that _are_ selling (and hitting their margins), you're _making_ your margins? By not making books that make money, you end up making money? Ah, the madness of Bean-Counters.... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />By turning it into something that _isn't_ FR. That's not a solution. If the result of this push is that you have the book Tomb and Brood with an FR logo on it, that doesn't make it an FR book, and the FR fans are going to figure that out in about 25 seconds.</blockquote>

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