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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 5327984" data-attributes="member: 18182">While all this armchair quarterbacking of PDF pricing makes me giggle, I'm willingly failing my save and jumping in.There are many factors that go into choosing the "correct" price of an ebook, and quite frankly, I doubt most of us in this thread have much of a clue as to the true complexity of it.  Small RPG garage publishers don't have the same costs and same concerns that large publishers do.  I compare it to novel ebooks.Forex, if I wrote a novel and decided to self-publish it in an online format, I could charge anything I want and probably eventually make some sort of profit, as my personal overhead is low and my financial concerns are low also . . . unless I'm crazy and want to quit my dayjob to rely soly upon my self-published brilliant work.So, why are novel ebooks cheaper than paperback books, but only by a slight margin?   Both WotC's novels and other companies novels?  Because publishing companies are greedy bastards?  I actually have no doubt that publishers are more than a bit greedy to hold on to their stranglehold on the publishing market and squeeze as much profit out of it as possible . . . . but large publishers have higher overhead (even for electronic only products) and have larger concerns (ebooks competing with paper books).Back to WotC and D&D RPG PDFs (too . . . many . . . acronyms . . .), WotC has to look at their overall costs for a specific book, both in print and electronic forms, and also how the pricing of an individual product will affect and support the rest of the line.  They have to worry about too aggressive ebook pricing cannibalizing print sales (which are still important and the core of their business).  They also have to get over the "why bother" hump, making sure that the pricing of their ebook releases covers all expenses, makes a reasonable profit, and doesn't hurt print sales or DDI subscriptions in some way.Should D&D ebooks be cheaper than the print versions?  I think so and I hope they are . . . from a personal perspective I hope they are super cheap so I can easily purchase them all!  But how cheap is "right"?  I'm not going to second guess WotC's pricing decisions . . . I just won't purchase as many of their offerings if they are too expensive for me personally.And of course, since WotC has made no announcements as to when, if, how, and how much they'll be offering RPG ebooks for . . . . I'll save my worries when we actually have some facts to discuss.</blockquote>

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