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- Thread starter Henadic Theologian
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They don't exploit their workers, they reward them with increased exposure of their work. Or so I understood from a thread about an art contest.
Zardnaar
Legend
They don't exploit their workers, they reward them with increased exposure of their work. Or so I understood from a thread about an art contest.
Heh contests are Abit different.
RPG stuff doesn't tend to pay much and there's a lot of downward pressure since people are willing to do it for free/cheap.
FitzTheRuke
Legend
It works like this: I pay $27.50 USD (45% off) on a D&D Book from my distributor and sell them for $50. (Actually I am Canadian, but we'll keep it in USD to make it easier - we also lose out on the exchange rate some of the time, but that's another story). Let's say I sell 20 of them in their first year (not a core book, but that's about right on something like Decent into Avernus). I make... $450! (Less whatever I paid my Clerk to sell them, and less because I probably brought in at least 22 copies if I sold 20, but you follow me...)
Meanwhile, Amazon sells 'em for, what, $37? (Depends on the book, the PHB goes for $32 but "rarer" books can go as high as $40). Let's say $37. They probably pay somewhere around $20 per. But they sell 100k of them! (I don't know how accurate that is, but let's go with it...) They make $1.7 Million!
On top of all that, I probably pay my employees 1.5x as much as Bezos does his. And mine probably spent more time doing it, too.
sounds like wotc will need to start actually providing the crunch they keep playing up in marketing
FitzTheRuke
Legend
Also... didn't this come hot on the heels of WotC announcing increased profits for the first two quarters?
Marc Radle
Hero
Hasbro Announces Price Increase For D&D And Magic: the Gathering To Offset Shipping
Hasbro Announces Price Increase For D&D And Magic: the Gathering To Offset Shippingwww.belloflostsouls.net
D&D is increasingly getting unappealing. I already preordered and couldn't cancel them, so this likely won't effect them, as its through amazon. Still I doubt I will.be doing much more business with them anyways.
Why? The global shipping problem isn’t their fault, and it’s perfectly reasonable to try and offset the huge price increases.
You seem to see this as some sort of nefarious plan on their part or something.
Parmandur
Book-Friend
I'm way more concerned about my grocery bill rising week to week.
Dragonblade
Adventurer
Of course it is absolutely a factor.
You cannot inject several trillion dollars into an economy without massively devaluing the dollars already there, especially if those dollars were not generated through creation of capital but through simply printing more of them.
Certainly you are correct that energy supply, including price of oil is also a factor.
Benjamin Olson
Hero
There has been a cumulative inflation of about 14% since the current pricing model was implemented in the Summer of 2014. The $49.99 MSRP wasn't going to last forever. The question is whether they round the $7 increase necessary to keep pace with inflation inflation down to $54.99 or up to $59.99.
thundershot
Adventurer
Well…. I’m glad I have Fizban and Witchlight locked in on Amazon for $30. Strixhaven didn’t go down as much and still sits at $45. Prices go up. It’s part of the world.
aco175
Legend
At what point does it become feasible to print in the USA or Europe? I'm guessing that it is not yet since they are not going to do this. Then there is also the question of printing with cheaper material like thinner paper and softcover, but same thing assuming they would have looked at it already. I'm guessing there is a chart with what people are willing to pay for what quality.
Zardnaar
Legend
Afaik the 5E books are printed in the USA.
Parmandur
Book-Friend
Last I heard, yup. Still need to be shipped around the country via freight.
Zardnaar
Legend
Yeah for me the simple explanation is inflation. We've had 2-3 generations who haven't experienced large inflation or lived through it even if they understand the theory.
LordEntrails
Hero
Wonder if this is going to increase the prices of my digital (FG) versions? I guess probably since they tend to price them relevant to the hardcover MSRP. But maybe not, we'll see.
Zardnaar
Legend
Theoretically yes as other costs will increase. But any such increase should be lower since they don't need to use materials as such to produce it.
doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
Zardnaar
Legend
Apparently there's a big shortage of containers. China's had Covid outbreak if they lock down their ports.....
Think we have large piles of empty containers but it's not worth picking them up due to shipping shortage.
