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<blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 53569" data-attributes="member: 172">Well, a publisher's economics are entirely an issue for the publisher. That's why I can't STAND when some company drone comes out and explain why their product is so expensive and names market considerations, etc. One such person tongue lashed me for knocking them down for putting out an expensive hardback with a very high price/page ratio with the excuse that his company cannot afford the larger print runs YADDA YADDA YADDA. The customer doesn't care. The customer doesn't receive value for your print run size. He just gets content X for value Y, and that's it.That said, I try not to make one publishing category better. When I do my price analysis, I base it on comparisons to similar products based on the price or size. Relics &amp; Rituals will get bounced against FFG black &amp; white hardbacks. Gar'Udok's will get bounced against BoEM, and so forth. Otherwise, the general trend is that bigger books are cheaper per-page. That doesn't stop some of the smaller books from being worthwhile products.There is one exception. After having seen only two books in the category of &quot;small (&lt;100 pages) color book for more than 20 dollars&quot; (Monsters of Faerun and Minions), I think that the category in general is not cost effective.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Psion, post: 53569, member: 172"] Well, a publisher's economics are entirely an issue for the publisher. That's why I can't STAND when some company drone comes out and explain why their product is so expensive and names market considerations, etc. One such person tongue lashed me for knocking them down for putting out an expensive hardback with a very high price/page ratio with the excuse that his company cannot afford the larger print runs YADDA YADDA YADDA. The customer doesn't care. The customer doesn't receive value for your print run size. He just gets content X for value Y, and that's it. That said, I try not to make one publishing category better. When I do my price analysis, I base it on comparisons to similar products based on the price or size. Relics & Rituals will get bounced against FFG black & white hardbacks. Gar'Udok's will get bounced against BoEM, and so forth. Otherwise, the general trend is that bigger books are cheaper per-page. That doesn't stop some of the smaller books from being worthwhile products. There is one exception. After having seen only two books in the category of "small (<100 pages) color book for more than 20 dollars" (Monsters of Faerun and Minions), I think that the category in general is not cost effective. [/QUOTE]

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