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<blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 7910140" data-attributes="member: 945"><p>mods: if this doesn't belong here, feel free to move it (not that you need my permission...)</p><p></p><p>I have written a PDF. This is a proto-typical fantasy thing, and covers what life was like for your average medieval peasant. It's a very rules light, fluff-heavy look at the Middle Ages. 45 pages.</p><p></p><p>I can package this up, post it on drivethrurpg.com and sell it. I'm thinking $5 is reasonable. With their cut, I make $3.50 per copy sold, and if I manage to sell 100 copies - woohoo, I'm $350 richer. But this will be the only product I have on that site (or anywhere), and I don't intend to do this for a living, and I might or might not ever write another book again, but I don't intend to make this a regular kind of thing. </p><p></p><p>Which option is smarter - for me to do that, or for me to just have another publisher do this legwork for me, post the product under their label, take some cut of the profits, and I sort of wash my hands of it? Like, in my mind, because I'm a nobody, are there advantages to publishing this for an actual publisher, since they have (presumably) some marketing email lists, and can do some promotion for the book. So, let's say I let a 3rd party company publish this for me. For basically no work on their part, I let them take $1 of my $3.50, but instead of selling 100 copies, I sell 150 copies, and even though I'm making slightly less per book, I'm coming out slightly ahead in the end.</p><p></p><p>Obviously, I have no idea how many copies sell on this site. Maybe 100 is a ridiculously high number. That would affect my decision as well. If 10 copies is more realistic, than I'll just go with option A. If it tends towards hundreds, maybe option B would be better in the long run. And are the advantages of using a 3rd party worth the cut I would take to do that? </p><p></p><p>And anyway, that's a good place to start. Any ideas?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="der_kluge, post: 7910140, member: 945"] mods: if this doesn't belong here, feel free to move it (not that you need my permission...) I have written a PDF. This is a proto-typical fantasy thing, and covers what life was like for your average medieval peasant. It's a very rules light, fluff-heavy look at the Middle Ages. 45 pages. I can package this up, post it on drivethrurpg.com and sell it. I'm thinking $5 is reasonable. With their cut, I make $3.50 per copy sold, and if I manage to sell 100 copies - woohoo, I'm $350 richer. But this will be the only product I have on that site (or anywhere), and I don't intend to do this for a living, and I might or might not ever write another book again, but I don't intend to make this a regular kind of thing. Which option is smarter - for me to do that, or for me to just have another publisher do this legwork for me, post the product under their label, take some cut of the profits, and I sort of wash my hands of it? Like, in my mind, because I'm a nobody, are there advantages to publishing this for an actual publisher, since they have (presumably) some marketing email lists, and can do some promotion for the book. So, let's say I let a 3rd party company publish this for me. For basically no work on their part, I let them take $1 of my $3.50, but instead of selling 100 copies, I sell 150 copies, and even though I'm making slightly less per book, I'm coming out slightly ahead in the end. Obviously, I have no idea how many copies sell on this site. Maybe 100 is a ridiculously high number. That would affect my decision as well. If 10 copies is more realistic, than I'll just go with option A. If it tends towards hundreds, maybe option B would be better in the long run. And are the advantages of using a 3rd party worth the cut I would take to do that? And anyway, that's a good place to start. Any ideas? [/QUOTE]
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