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<blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 5188184" data-attributes="member: 221">Rechan:1) Are you really suggesting that Paizo is shrinking as a market force?&nbsp; That makes me think you are not paying close attention to the situation or you are allowing biases to prejudice your judgment.&nbsp; 2) I'm not sure what you misunderstood about the PDFs, but let me be clear.&nbsp; Paizo gives away their PDFs to subscribers of their lines.&nbsp; They furthermore give a 15% discount on all their merchandise to subscribers to their adventure Path.&nbsp; As a subscriber I pay $13.99 for the adventure paths, get a hard copy in the mail and get the PDF of each book for free.&nbsp; I pay $11.89 for a module, get a hard copy in the mail and get the PDF of the module for free. 3) Arguing that smaller print runs don't cost more per book is pretty silly.&nbsp; Any publisher will tell you that per book, larger print runs are cheaper.&nbsp; In point of fact, if you talk to the Piazo guys, and they're pretty accessible about this sort of thing, they will tell you they don't reprint their modules or APs because smaller print runs cost more, giving them less profit, and reprints don't sell out as fast.&nbsp; This is why publishing companies only reprint hot sellers or evergreen books.&nbsp; You should expect to pay less for a large mass market book simply because the print run costs less per book.&nbsp; 4) As for your point about not being able to see how management might impact quality, price control and company growth, well, I'm pretty much at a loss as to how to respond to such thinking. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wicht, post: 5188184, member: 221"] Rechan: 1) Are you really suggesting that Paizo is shrinking as a market force? That makes me think you are not paying close attention to the situation or you are allowing biases to prejudice your judgment. 2) I'm not sure what you misunderstood about the PDFs, but let me be clear. Paizo gives away their PDFs to subscribers of their lines. They furthermore give a 15% discount on all their merchandise to subscribers to their adventure Path. As a subscriber I pay $13.99 for the adventure paths, get a hard copy in the mail and get the PDF of each book for free. I pay $11.89 for a module, get a hard copy in the mail and get the PDF of the module for free. 3) Arguing that smaller print runs don't cost more per book is pretty silly. Any publisher will tell you that per book, larger print runs are cheaper. In point of fact, if you talk to the Piazo guys, and they're pretty accessible about this sort of thing, they will tell you they don't reprint their modules or APs because smaller print runs cost more, giving them less profit, and reprints don't sell out as fast. This is why publishing companies only reprint hot sellers or evergreen books. You should expect to pay less for a large mass market book simply because the print run costs less per book. 4) As for your point about not being able to see how management might impact quality, price control and company growth, well, I'm pretty much at a loss as to how to respond to such thinking. :) [/QUOTE]

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