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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
They don't cost that much. Your average RPG rulebook is considerably more complex than a novel and doesn't have anything like those costs - I can speak to that from firsthand experience.
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I wasn't talking about RPG books; they may well have a different cost basis. I have no familiarity with them. And I am willing to concede that fiction books can cost less -- or more -- but regardless of your personal experience, my personal experience is that costs can and do run as high and higher than I listed. As I said, I know for a fact that a recent book I edited cost more than $50,000 in just editorial costs and I also can state with certainty that that price has not been atypical of many of the books I have worked on in the past 20 years.
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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
Lol 2k cover artwork. I've had complete artwork done for a RPG book - over 20 illustrations - for less than that. (I hired a professional artist, with half the images chosen from his stock, the other half paid for on a per-hour basis with 6-month exclusivity, and an additional fee for the two images I wanted to be permanently exclusive).
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So then we can agree that no RPG book should be selling for more than $2.99 and that RPG publishers are really ripping off consumers. Or is it just RPG books that you are involved with?