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<blockquote data-quote="BiggusGeekus" data-source="post: 108514" data-attributes="member: 1014">RPGs are underpriced.&nbsp; Take a serious look at the industry and tell me otherwise.&nbsp; Get a print quote for a hardcover 200 page book and a print run of 3,000.&nbsp; Now slap on the distributor and vendor's cut (which ammounts to an %800 to %1,000 markup).&nbsp; Compare that to,say, a college textbook of similar size and quality.&nbsp; But everyone tries to cut corners by having a friend edit the product for free and things like that (though how WotC has typos is beyond me). You say filesharing will force people to do better.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; If people are distributing a book for free how will that increase the number sold and increase profits?&nbsp; You talk about &quot;word getting out&quot;.&nbsp; What you mean like reviews?&nbsp; Like on this very review site?&nbsp; Where reviewers review legal copies?&nbsp; That kind of word?&nbsp; The solution you are looking for (reviews) currently exists in the industry and it is availble for free.Incidentally, I can only see how filesharing helps the larger companies.&nbsp; The smaller ones can't afford to take the hit and if they are on a borderline existence (as most RPG companies are) then they will go under, leaving the big guy to stand.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BiggusGeekus, post: 108514, member: 1014"] RPGs [i]are[/i] underpriced. Take a serious look at the industry and tell me otherwise. Get a print quote for a hardcover 200 page book and a print run of 3,000. Now slap on the distributor and vendor's cut (which ammounts to an %800 to %1,000 markup). Compare that to,say, a college textbook of similar size and quality. But everyone tries to cut corners by having a friend edit the product for free and things like that (though how WotC has typos is beyond me). You say filesharing will force people to do better. Why? If people are distributing a book for free how will that increase the number sold and increase profits? You talk about "word getting out". What you mean like reviews? Like on this very review site? Where reviewers review legal copies? That kind of word? The solution you are looking for (reviews) currently exists in the industry and it is availble for free. Incidentally, I can only see how filesharing helps the larger companies. The smaller ones can't afford to take the hit and if they are on a borderline existence (as most RPG companies are) then they will go under, leaving the big guy to stand. [/QUOTE]

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