Monthly Archives: February 2011
PDF Experiment – Returning Some Link Love
With the PDF experiment at an end there is nothing left to do except say a big thank you to all those who helped. Starting with the 11 people who brought the PDF. Without your support this experiment would have been pointless. I hope you enjoyed reading the adventure and feel that you got your [...]
PDF Pricing – An Epilog or How You Can Sell PDFs for $31.99
Just minutes after yesterday’s post on why the price of a PDF doesn’t matter, the Wondrous Imaging blog posted an article called Castle Keeper’s Guide: Pdf Pricing—EPIC FAIL that seems to show that the price does matter. Here is a select quote from the article. I got my credit card out, assuming I would have [...]
PDF Pricing Experiment – Why Price Does Not Matter (Much)
Over the last two days we have looked at the headline figures and a detailed breakdown of the Pay-What-You-Want experiment but what conclusions can we draw? Pay-What-You-Want The Pay-What-You-Want model is not a valid way to build a substantial PDF publishing business. It is a publicity stunt, a novelty that will wear thin very quickly [...]
PDF Pricing Experiment – The Secrets of Price
Yesterday I looked at the headline numbers in our Pay-What-You-Want experiment. Today I will look deeper into how much people paid and reveal a couple of secrets. How Much They Paid Eleven copies of the PDF were sold. This is a breakdown of sales per price. Obviously the £5 price mark was the most common [...]
PDF Pricing Experiment – The Headline Numbers
Between the 2nd and the 10th of February, the Mince Pies & Murder PDF was on sale on a pay-what-you-want basis. Apart from a minimum price of £1 (due to credit card fees) buyers of the 60+ page PDF could pay whatever they felt it was worth. Today, I present the headline numbers but these [...]
Are You a 4e Player in the UK?
Then you may be interested in the 4e Tweetup (a meet-up organised via Twitter) happening on the 19th of March. Because it involves gamers, there will be games. I believe two are planned but it depends on the numbers. The meet-up will happen at Mondo Comico in Nottingham. Mondo is a great FLGS and a [...]
What is a Rules Set?
In previous posts I’ve described 6d6 Ultra-Lite as a rules set but what does that mean? Remix Is In Its Genes The 6d6 RPG is all about reuse and remixing content. For that this to work, the very essence of the game has support this idea by allowing GMs to house-rule and customise the system [...]
A Quick Recap
Today is the last chance to bag yourself a copy of Mince Pies & Murder at whatever price you want to pay. We have had three great reviews of the PDF Plus fantastic player feedback from our playtest sessions. It is also part of an experiment to help smal RPG publishers everywhere. And it is [...]
Two More Great Reviews of Mince Pies & Murder
In addition to Prince Azalea’s review on Friday we’ve had two more really fair and balanced reviews. Postmortem Studios, who are running their own PDF pricing experiment, had this to say. Mince Pies and Murder has some good suggestions on how to run the game and is quite tightly structured, giving it a strong narrative [...]
InvaderZ: Mutilating Cows and Probing Rectums
The pricing of PDFs is a big issue right now, with our own experiment with Pay-What-You-Want and Adamant’s App Price across the board approach. Now fellow small publisher Postmortem Studios is testing ‘app-pricing’ on a new InvaderZ: Pocket Edition. This is an updated edition of their 2008 InvaderZ product that has been reformatted to A5 [...]
