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DawnFalcon · 12-22-2009, 01:53 PM

Different cost basis? For the same skills? No. Heck, if anything RPG's are a subset of editing and I'd expect to know more because you need the editor to have some knowledge of RPG game systems.

And was that $50k editing book a novel? If it's a highly technical manual in a zero-error industry (i.e. aviation) perhaps, but again RPG's tend to require higher precision than novels and a tenth the cost is still ludicrous.

Also... RPG ebooks do typically sell quite cheaply. $15 for the PDF of a book which would be $25 in it's paper edition is about right, and highly typical. Ultra Starfire, which I've worked on, is $21 including a year's errata and updates...

Some of the 20-odd page mini-adventures I worked on do sell for $1.99...and they don't generally generate a profit. It's about keeping customers interested, with a library of material etc.

12-22-2009, 01:53 PM	#156
DawnFalcon Banned Posts: 2,094 Karma: 2682 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: N/A	Different cost basis? For the same skills? No. Heck, if anything RPG's are a subset of editing and I'd expect to know more because you need the editor to have some knowledge of RPG game systems. And was that $50k editing book a novel? If it's a highly technical manual in a zero-error industry (i.e. aviation) perhaps, but again RPG's tend to require higher precision than novels and a tenth the cost is still ludicrous. Also... RPG ebooks do typically sell quite cheaply. $15 for the PDF of a book which would be $25 in it's paper edition is about right, and highly typical. Ultra Starfire, which I've worked on, is $21 including a year's errata and updates... Some of the 20-odd page mini-adventures I worked on do sell for $1.99...and they don't generally generate a profit. It's about keeping customers interested, with a library of material etc. Last edited by DawnFalcon; 12-22-2009 at 01:59 PM.