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<blockquote data-quote="PosterBoy" data-source="post: 243760" data-attributes="member: 2259">From The Darwin's World PublisherOK,&nbsp; I'm the Darwin's World Publisher, so I'll lend my 2 cents. &nbsp;PDF publishing has been very good to RPGObjects. Sure it doesn't make as much money as print, but it's has pretty low operating costs.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Now DW was the #1 selling PDF for many months.&nbsp; Its number #7 now, and most of our other DW pdfs are in the top 25.&nbsp; (we just recent combined 3 books into 1 so at one point 4 pdfs were in the top 25).&nbsp; So I consider that when I say I think you CAN pay for a print run with PDFs sales if it sells well.&nbsp;&nbsp; I don't mean to say your profits will pay for the print run, but the total sales might.&nbsp; So you'd invest money into developing the product, and then wait until the total sales equals the cost of the print run. &nbsp;Of course, there are other factors to producing a print product, such as finding a fulfillment house (who sells to distributors, who sells to retailers). And the word is that fulfillment houses are quite full of clients.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> &nbsp;However, for the record, I didn't really use that strategy.&nbsp;&nbsp; I just felt that it was time for DW to go to print and found the funds to do so.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Your best bet is to produce a great PDF product and offer it to another publisher to do the print run.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;One nice benefit to doing PDF products is that you can update them.&nbsp; Developing a new d20 game isn't easy.&nbsp; DW has changed in many significant ways since its initial release.&nbsp; The people that buy your products love to give feedback, especially when it gets used.&nbsp;&nbsp; DW wouldn't have become what it is today if it weren't for the great feedback from the people who purchased the PDFs.&nbsp; So doing PDF products is a greater way to help refine a game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PosterBoy, post: 243760, member: 2259"] [b]From The Darwin's World Publisher[/b] OK, I'm the Darwin's World Publisher, so I'll lend my 2 cents. PDF publishing has been very good to RPGObjects. Sure it doesn't make as much money as print, but it's has pretty low operating costs. Now DW was the #1 selling PDF for many months. Its number #7 now, and most of our other DW pdfs are in the top 25. (we just recent combined 3 books into 1 so at one point 4 pdfs were in the top 25). So I consider that when I say I think you CAN pay for a print run with PDFs sales if it sells well. I don't mean to say your profits will pay for the print run, but the total sales might. So you'd invest money into developing the product, and then wait until the total sales equals the cost of the print run. Of course, there are other factors to producing a print product, such as finding a fulfillment house (who sells to distributors, who sells to retailers). And the word is that fulfillment houses are quite full of clients. :( However, for the record, I didn't really use that strategy. I just felt that it was time for DW to go to print and found the funds to do so. Your best bet is to produce a great PDF product and offer it to another publisher to do the print run. One nice benefit to doing PDF products is that you can update them. Developing a new d20 game isn't easy. DW has changed in many significant ways since its initial release. The people that buy your products love to give feedback, especially when it gets used. DW wouldn't have become what it is today if it weren't for the great feedback from the people who purchased the PDFs. So doing PDF products is a greater way to help refine a game. [/QUOTE]

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