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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9034994"><p>As an indie publisher, I am not comfortable with this line of argument where we praise a big corporation for raising prices because that somehow helps smaller publishers do the same. Costs if everything are too high these days. We shouldn’t celebrate RPGs getting more expensive or treat a move that is likely motivated by greed as altruism for the little guys. Small publishers do have to raise rates to deal with tight profit margins but there us also a max value these products should have. Right now I am looking at different formats in the future, different approaches so I can keep prices low. If margins are so tight we have to charge unreasonable prices we should consider that our production costs are too high, that maybe books could be done on a tighter budget, with more modest production. If margins are that tight we need to ask ourselves tough questions about where we spend money because it is possible tight revenue streams are due to the realities of demand. I don’t begrudge indie publishers charging what they think is fair. But if anyone can afford lower cover costs it is WOTC. And I think it is very fair for fans to tell us when they think prices are too high</p></blockquote><p></p>