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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rasyr" data-source="post: 2730827" data-attributes="member: 2855">Okay, here is how ICE handles it.For PDFs of print products, we charge 40-50% of cover price, though the vast majority is at the 50% mark. For example, HARP retails for $25, the PDF sells for $10 (60% off), and the other products in the HARP line sell at 50% of cover price for the PDFs.For PDFs that do not have a print version, we use the simple guideline of $1 for every 10 pages, or portion thereof, thus the HARPer's Bazaar PDFs (each 12-13 pages long) sell for $2 each. Now, we will occasionally tack on an extra dollar or two for larger works, especially if it was a more difficult project to produce. For example, the "Hack & Slash" pdf is 38 pages. Under normal circumstances this would be $4, but we actually sell it at $5 since it was a bit more intensive to produce.I fully agree with this pricing schema, especially since I helped define it for ICE. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Price per page? I don't have any actual numbers that I could give, but here is a little tidbit about print publishing that you might not realize. Most printers use what is called a "signature". A signature is a base number of pages, and the printers charge companies by the signature. Most signatures are in multiples of 2 with the most common ones being 8, 16, or 32. The actual price for a signature will often vary according to how many actual books are in the print run (larger print runs have a smaller price per book than smaller print runs in almost all cases).This is also one of the reasons you will often see one or more pages of ads or other filler material at the back of a product. You see, if you do not use a full signature, you have to pay for the individual pages that are outside of a signature, those are more expensive (and can end up being more expensive than a full signature). Thus, if you buy a book and see an ad in the back, you will know that the publisher most likely did it to save money on printing costs (thanks to a manuscript that was not as long as they had originally hoped).However, with PDFs you do not have this problem. Also, with the rise of POD printing, this problem is also starting to disappear from the print side as well. PODs can and often do use a 2 page signature. And the quality of POD printing is also getting very good which make it a very viable alternative to regular printers.</blockquote>

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