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<blockquote data-quote="Vigilance" data-source="post: 1730430" data-attributes="member: 4275"><p>Im glad you can afford to use those numbers in a completely arbitrary fashion lol.</p><p></p><p>In this business every product has to make money for the small companies to survive. </p><p></p><p>In my time at RPGO we've never lost money on a book, but if we did it would be very very bad.</p><p></p><p>I wish the market was such that companies could produce what they wanted and not worry if they lost money on the adventures side as an advertising expense.</p><p></p><p>You guys DO know that in TSR's glory days, when they were making the giant adventures and the Drow modules, that they LOST MONEY on those modules?</p><p></p><p>But they made enough on everything else they could chock it up to the cost of doing business.</p><p></p><p>Well now we can't.</p><p></p><p>Anyone who doesn't want to use numbers arbitrarily is invited to drop 10 grand of their own money to publish a 3 adventure series.</p><p></p><p>I made this challenge early in the thread and no one even responded to it.</p><p></p><p>I wonder why that is?</p><p></p><p>Maybe people are less inclined to lose THEIR money than MINE?</p><p></p><p>Chuck</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vigilance, post: 1730430, member: 4275"] Im glad you can afford to use those numbers in a completely arbitrary fashion lol. In this business every product has to make money for the small companies to survive. In my time at RPGO we've never lost money on a book, but if we did it would be very very bad. I wish the market was such that companies could produce what they wanted and not worry if they lost money on the adventures side as an advertising expense. You guys DO know that in TSR's glory days, when they were making the giant adventures and the Drow modules, that they LOST MONEY on those modules? But they made enough on everything else they could chock it up to the cost of doing business. Well now we can't. Anyone who doesn't want to use numbers arbitrarily is invited to drop 10 grand of their own money to publish a 3 adventure series. I made this challenge early in the thread and no one even responded to it. I wonder why that is? Maybe people are less inclined to lose THEIR money than MINE? Chuck [/QUOTE]
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