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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brian K. Moseley" data-source="post: 1145813" data-attributes="member: 4042">I agree, which is why Darkfuries PDFs aren't sold through SVGames.  50% is higher than most distributor rates for printed products, but these are electronic products with no inherent inventory overhead.My greater concern, however, is if SVGames reserves the right to set price. I have not personally researched this, so I am relying upon what others have already posted in this thread. Hopefully I'm not going to chew shoe leather again  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  If SVGames can offer additional services to compensate for their high percentage, that would be a different matter.With PDFs being a sliver of an already niche market, in my opinion it is better for the e-publisher to set their own price. Sales competition is healthy, but the PDF industry won't support a great deal of it. Supporting a storefront that pays a smaller percentage to the e-publsher so that it can afford to undercut its competitors may provide a few extra sales, but it isn't worth losing the larger commission percentage. Selling through one venue isn't sound business practice either, and I have no qualms with selling through other PDF storefronts that offer competitive rates.I doubt that it is a realistic expectation to make a living by writing e-books. PDFs can provide supplemental income or help increase a small publishers' short-term cash flow, but they aren't something to hinge your financial future on. Add to this the fact that many retailers hesitate to carry a printed book that is also released as an e-book.If an e-publisher receives only 50% gross on a product, I can't justify the effort to create the book as sales over the life of the product are unlikely to exceed few hundred copies . Based upon the number of extremey low-priced PDFs at RPGNow, however, I'm sure there are many e-publishers who would disagree with me.Lastly, regarding PDF storefronts, the first Darkfuries e-book was released through RPGNow in December 2001.  I've never had a problem with James. I listed several products through the RPGNet Mall, but it was disappointing.  Over the course of a year I emailed several times requesting payment. Allan Sugarbaker forwarded my emails to the appropriate folks. Nobody else ever responded, and I was never paid so I removed the products.</blockquote>

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