thread: 2010-09-22 : 3 updates
On 2010-09-22, Joel wrote:
From the TwitSpace:
First ashcan: $5 book, $2 PDF. I was trying to just generate enough money to print the thing for Gamestorm 09. Worked, barely.
2nd ashcan went all the way to final product without being sold as PDF. Book is now $10, and PDF will be free with purchase.
haven't actually thought of selling the PDF separately for this one. $3 maybe? Releasing basic info in Creative Commons wiki.
Follow-up from that: I personally am not jazzed about buying PDFs. I like having them to look over and get a feel for a product but I can't read them straight through like a book in that form and I certainly can't use them for play. So if I'm using them I print them which means I want a cheap and/or short PDF to print from, because the REAL cost is PDF + printing costs.
So far I haven't even sold a PRINT book that was over $10, so my bar for PDF sales is appropriately low. For my new book, I worked hard to make the homemade product itself a thing of beauty and artistry, so I'm not certain I even want to release a PDF at all. I've published under Creative Commons Attribution-share alike license, so I'll just put the basic game information up on a wiki soon and let the "product" stand as the homemade, hand-sewn, matte-framed cover illustration work of art that it is.
If I'm selling a PDF it probably means that it's a game in development OR a supplemental service to what I consider the "real" product, and therefore quite cheap. $5 and below.
peace,
-Joel
