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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 9720981" data-attributes="member: 7026617">I'm not Morrus and he's going to know more about the specifics than I ever would, but there's a couple things one should keep in mind here:1. Not all game PDFs have hardcovers associated with them.  I could point at a hundred games on DTRPG that are PDFs with options to print.  As such, you don't have the upfront for printing.  Yes, DTRPG is charging to host the files and set up the POD, but the printing costs, per se, aren't there.2. That said, if you do have to still, as you say, pay for all the work needed to set up the document, and if you are doing a physical print runs, the layout issues are  more than just porting over to the other format.3. On the third hand, once you've got a PDF document properly prepared, the incremental cost for successive sales of the PDF are minimal, unlike the case with non-POD physical books where there's all kinds of both upfront and ongoing costs between printing, shipping and storage.So its not the zero-cost process some people subconsciously think it is, but after a certain point, PDF sales approach being pure profit; the issue with a lot of publishers is how long it takes to make up the upfront costs to get there.I'm ignoring for these purposes the rare case of writers who get ongoing payment for products they are not the primary owners of, since as far as I know that's pretty rare in the RPG field.</blockquote>