Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Enchanted Trinkets Complete--a hardcover book containing over 500 magic items for your D&D games!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="JohnNephew" data-source="post: 469317" data-attributes="member: 2171">It's true that a lot of those books were available for less on eBay.  However, it's worth noting that our "damaged" books were often in much better shape than the books you find on a store's shelves, if they've been handled by a few customers.  For example, if the tips of a hardcover were dented slightly in the warehouse, we don't send it out to distributors -- there's a certain inevitable amount of wear that occurs in transit, but we don't want to magnify it by sending out something that is scuffed or dinged in the first place.When we sell our damaged books, the usual puzzled response is, "uh...where's the damage? this little scuff on the corner?" or the like.Nonetheless, if there was a huge demand for savings of 30%+ (we now have some of those fire sale items available at 30% off through Warehouse 23), you'd think there would be a stampede to such savings.  The people who want things cheaply, though, are looking in general for prices that are not viable for a publisher to charge.I'm working on an article for d20weekly, btw, that presents a spreadsheet for the budget of a D20 product.  It would let folks plug in different retail prices and see what the effect is on a publisher's profitability.  (Cutting the retail price by 30% in the spreadsheet, without cutting any expenses as well, cuts the potential profit to just about zero, even if a print run of 2000 copies sells out entirely.  And a lot of D20 books these days don't sell more than 1000 copies.)</blockquote>

Verification