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<blockquote data-quote="Scott Lynch" data-source="post: 1021020" data-attributes="member: 4450"><p><strong>Its for this reason that I recomend people split up books over 150 pages. Sell it as seperate sections.</strong></p><p></p><p>As the seller of a 376-page PDF, I quite understand this sentiment-- but my reason for keeping *Deeds Not Words 1.1* together at that ridiculous size was to preserve the advantage of internal linking. It has a rather elaborate set of bookmarks and clickable links, and having to switch back and forth between two large PDFs to learn and cross-reference a complex system-- well, ugh. </p><p></p><p><strong>Though, there are some books that have done well over $10 (ePublisher Guide for an extream example)- it definatly takes something unique or of highest quality to do it.</strong></p><p></p><p>The original DNW was 318 pages for $10, and it sold 300+ copies off my website. DNW 1.1, 376 pages at $11.95, has currently sold 37 copies at RPGnow.com and 42 off my own website, since mid-April. </p><p></p><p>I doubt I'll ever do anything so large again, but DNW was no disappointment. In fact, it's outsold my original optimistic projection four times over. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>As far as other pricing concerns– my PDFs tend to contain less art and a more pedestrian layout than some of the really, really nice ones produced by some of the folks posting in this forum (hatesssss Philip Reed, hatesss him, my precioussss, nasssty lovely PDFsses...), so I rarely feel comfortable offering less than 40 pages for $5.00. *Killers I* was an exception at 28, because it contains quite a few illustrations-- but *The Book of Distinctions & Drawbacks* was 45 pages at $5, and the BODD Modern is 60 pages for the same price.</p><p></p><p>Cheers,</p><p></p><p>SL</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott Lynch, post: 1021020, member: 4450"] [b]Its for this reason that I recomend people split up books over 150 pages. Sell it as seperate sections.[/b] As the seller of a 376-page PDF, I quite understand this sentiment-- but my reason for keeping *Deeds Not Words 1.1* together at that ridiculous size was to preserve the advantage of internal linking. It has a rather elaborate set of bookmarks and clickable links, and having to switch back and forth between two large PDFs to learn and cross-reference a complex system-- well, ugh. [b]Though, there are some books that have done well over $10 (ePublisher Guide for an extream example)- it definatly takes something unique or of highest quality to do it.[/b] The original DNW was 318 pages for $10, and it sold 300+ copies off my website. DNW 1.1, 376 pages at $11.95, has currently sold 37 copies at RPGnow.com and 42 off my own website, since mid-April. I doubt I'll ever do anything so large again, but DNW was no disappointment. In fact, it's outsold my original optimistic projection four times over. ;) As far as other pricing concerns– my PDFs tend to contain less art and a more pedestrian layout than some of the really, really nice ones produced by some of the folks posting in this forum (hatesssss Philip Reed, hatesss him, my precioussss, nasssty lovely PDFsses...), so I rarely feel comfortable offering less than 40 pages for $5.00. *Killers I* was an exception at 28, because it contains quite a few illustrations-- but *The Book of Distinctions & Drawbacks* was 45 pages at $5, and the BODD Modern is 60 pages for the same price. Cheers, SL [/QUOTE]
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