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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9720777" data-attributes="member: 42856">It would be interesting to know the art price on a RPG project, compared to the cost of remaking a basic layout of the text in an art-free version.Then, the editor would need to estimate the net gain, between the customers who would buy the art-free version at a lower cost instead of not buying anything at all, minus the reduced income coming from people who would have bought the PDF with art and decided to go with the art-free version instead when it's proposed.Edit: I looked at a few Kickstarters offering both digital only and hardcover versions of RPGs to look at the number of backker. Cosmere 1,300 backers for 2 digital PDF and 6,500 for hardcover+digital bundle, but the relative price was 60 USD and 95 USD. Stronghold and Followers had 4,700 digital backers and 14,700 hardcover+digital backer, with price of 20 and 30 USD, The One Ring had 1,000 and 1,400 respective backers for digital and digital+hardcover backer with price of 300 SEK and 500 SEK, 7th Sea had 2,900 backers for a PDF of the 2nd edition+PDF of the 1st and 4,300 backers for the physical book of the 2nd edition + PDF of the 1sst (price 40 and 60 USD). At the other end of the notoriety spectrum, the SMORK BORG TTRPG has 108 backers for the digital edition at USD 12 and 61 backers for the hardcover+digital at USD 29, it was also the one where the PDF-only price was the lowest.So maybe the public for digital only RPG is small enough (and the market for easy to print PDF an even smaller submarket) that they don't bother with it?</blockquote>

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