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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pramas" data-source="post: 427072" data-attributes="member: 995">Sales into the hobby trade are usually not returnable (though maybe White Wolf has its own terms). It's the book trade where returns are a danger. However, while GR and Necro are in the book trade, most d20 companies are not so they don't have the additional headache of dealing with returns. Our pricing structure begins with a base of $14.95 for a 64 book and scales up from there. Other factors, like hardbacks, poster maps, and color printing, can add cost. Freeport: The City of Adventure, for instance is the same page count as our upcoming Plot & Poison: A Guidebook to Drow, but $29.95 to Plot's $24.95. That's because Freeport is hardback and has a bitchin' color, fold out, poster map. At a certain point though, publishers get diminishing returns for adding page count and content. In another thread, I showed how Book of the Righteous has the word count of 7 of our 64 page books. If I charge the same word to price ratio, Book of the Righteous would be $105. Now big books can be worthwhile for other reasons (they grab attention, they add prestige to your line, etc.), but you'll note that we don't have any other 320 page books on our schedule right now.</blockquote>