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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JohnNephew" data-source="post: 280141" data-attributes="member: 2171">If you are wanting to do a hardcover game book, I'd say you'll want at least $10,000 on hand to invest in it -- money you can afford to lose.  As has been said, a lot depend on the details of the kind of book you want to do, the length, the format, the artists and writers you hire, whether you pay cash or royalties, etc.  But I take it you're trying to get a vague conceptual grasp of the financial scale involved, without having committed to all the budgetary details -- thus I suggest $10,000 as a good number to think of at this stage.If you think that coming up with $10,000 in risk capital (and being prepared not to get it back for a couple of years; even if you do well, you'll be reinvesting the money, not cashing it out) is not a realistic option for you, you probably want to look into something like PDF publishing instead.  In fact, even if you do have $10k burning a hole in your pocket, it might be good to try publishing a few PDF products first, just to get familiar with the creation side of the business, before learning all the details of physical production, inventory, distribution, credit management, and the rest.</blockquote>