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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Abulia" data-source="post: 427156" data-attributes="member: 8162">Re: Re: Re: Re: Higher prices?Well said, John.Out of curiosity, how many publishers sit down and do a hard ROI model on their products or is pricing determined by looking at the market at large? "xx is a similar product and is priced $xx, so we'll do the same." Some combination of the two? I suspect it's more the latter than the former, with experience (time in the industry) being a large factor as time goes on.I don't subscribe to the notion of an earlier poster that pay by word count somehow encourages "wordier" text. The developer/editor defines what topics need to be covered and what space can be set aside. I've turned in chapters under word count because I covered the topic at hand satisfactorily. (By the same token, I've also gone over.)Besides, any writer that just tosses in fluff prose might find their contract terminated and all their work tossed aside in favor of a minimal kill fee. Plus, as developers and publishers network within a close circle your next assignment will be that much harder to land. <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Regards,Don MappinFreelancer for <a href="mailto:mappin@xmission.com">Hire</a></blockquote>