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<blockquote data-quote="BASHMAN" data-source="post: 2245695" data-attributes="member: 8277"><p>As an online publisher, I will clue you in to why this trend will increase.</p><p></p><p>The shorter the page count of a product, the more profit you make/page published. I for instance have a product for sale called the 1 sheet dungeon that is only 2 pages long (it is basically a really compactly written 17 room dungeon crawl for 4 2nd level PCs). I sell it on RPGnow for 1.25. It took me less than a day to put the whole product together, and it even was rated 5/5 stars! </p><p></p><p>I have another product with 30 pages selling for 6.00. That is 1 dollar per 5 pages, or 20 cents per page, each page representing an increasing ammount of time & labor to create the product. The 2 page product makes me 62 cents per page.</p><p></p><p>Second: the shorter the page count, the faster I can release new products. The more products you release, the more you keep your name "in the air", on the front page of the rpgnow website. Note, that your products always have links at the bottom to your older products. So the more new stuff you make, the more free adverstising you also get for your older stuff. Also, the more products you make, the more chance there is of getting a first time customer, which increases your chances of having a repeat customer (assuming you are making quality products and not garbage). </p><p></p><p>Third: Because they are cheap, more people are willing to "impulse buy" and take a chance on your product than they would if it were say 10 dollars and 50 pages. </p><p></p><p>Basically, shorter products are better for business.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BASHMAN, post: 2245695, member: 8277"] As an online publisher, I will clue you in to why this trend will increase. The shorter the page count of a product, the more profit you make/page published. I for instance have a product for sale called the 1 sheet dungeon that is only 2 pages long (it is basically a really compactly written 17 room dungeon crawl for 4 2nd level PCs). I sell it on RPGnow for 1.25. It took me less than a day to put the whole product together, and it even was rated 5/5 stars! I have another product with 30 pages selling for 6.00. That is 1 dollar per 5 pages, or 20 cents per page, each page representing an increasing ammount of time & labor to create the product. The 2 page product makes me 62 cents per page. Second: the shorter the page count, the faster I can release new products. The more products you release, the more you keep your name "in the air", on the front page of the rpgnow website. Note, that your products always have links at the bottom to your older products. So the more new stuff you make, the more free adverstising you also get for your older stuff. Also, the more products you make, the more chance there is of getting a first time customer, which increases your chances of having a repeat customer (assuming you are making quality products and not garbage). Third: Because they are cheap, more people are willing to "impulse buy" and take a chance on your product than they would if it were say 10 dollars and 50 pages. Basically, shorter products are better for business. [/QUOTE]
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