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<blockquote data-quote="Blacksad" data-source="post: 320214" data-attributes="member: 1359"><p><strong>Re: Thanks for the feedback . . .</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You might wish to ask some publisher or specialist, how much overlap there is between potential customer of PDF and customer of standard books, so that if you publish both, you might decide to reduce a bit (or more probably not reduce) the print run.</p><p></p><p>You might also wish to consider how a PDF, that might get pirated will affect sales of the print run version, if many people pirated the PDF will they buy your book?</p><p></p><p>[IMO]</p><p>If your plans were to release the book only through your website, there will be overlap, and pirated copy will affect sales, because it looks like the d20 online community buy and use PDF more often than the standard d20 customer, so I think that the availability of the PDF will reduce your printed sales.</p><p></p><p>If the book is released in normal stores, I think that the effect of having a PDF version will not be noticed in the printed book sales, and you might get a very little more cash, as soon as the book is finished (that the interesting point<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />) through PDF sales thanks to a minority of customer, because they use a laptop (like me), or live in a country where shipping might be costly (still like me) and prefer a PDF version.</p><p></p><p>Aso, if you go to the PDF route, try to use RPGnow (something that accept many customer, as opposed to paypal which works great for some, and not so well for other).</p><p>[/IMO]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blacksad, post: 320214, member: 1359"] [b]Re: Thanks for the feedback . . .[/b] You might wish to ask some publisher or specialist, how much overlap there is between potential customer of PDF and customer of standard books, so that if you publish both, you might decide to reduce a bit (or more probably not reduce) the print run. You might also wish to consider how a PDF, that might get pirated will affect sales of the print run version, if many people pirated the PDF will they buy your book? [IMO] If your plans were to release the book only through your website, there will be overlap, and pirated copy will affect sales, because it looks like the d20 online community buy and use PDF more often than the standard d20 customer, so I think that the availability of the PDF will reduce your printed sales. If the book is released in normal stores, I think that the effect of having a PDF version will not be noticed in the printed book sales, and you might get a very little more cash, as soon as the book is finished (that the interesting point;)) through PDF sales thanks to a minority of customer, because they use a laptop (like me), or live in a country where shipping might be costly (still like me) and prefer a PDF version. Aso, if you go to the PDF route, try to use RPGnow (something that accept many customer, as opposed to paypal which works great for some, and not so well for other). [/IMO] [/QUOTE]
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