Howdy,
>it safe, do first small run of 1000 or even 500, and if it sells well, you
can always rerun it
>again. *Using the money* you made selling first 500. Or take a risk to
loose more for chance to >makemore. Your choice.
The problem here is you don't make any money selling 500 because your cost
of goods is so high that after distribution discounts you get nothing. If
you sell direct only you might make some money, but not enough to print a
big batch, and since you were not selling in stores you still have the
initial distribution hurdle to jump over.
Most vanity/hobby presses need to use a variant of the 300/3000 rule.
Either print 300 and only sell at full retail, or print 3000 and go into
standard distribution. Most print runs in the middle (most, not all) end up
losing money.
>To Clark: I know this is not cost-efficient. The people who know how to
print in cost-efficent way,
>how to get distributors to carry your inventory and orginize shipping IMHO
don't need our advice to
>begin with. My piece is for people who just learning the ropes, and are
about to finance it out of
>their own pocket. For them difference between printing 3000 for 3000$ vs.
500 for 1000$ could be
>quite important.
You're 100% right here. The trick though is that if they can't do the
$3000, they'll never get into distribution. Their cost of goods will never
be low enough to make money on. However, there are dozens of small press
guys perfectly happy to not lose money selling direct their 300-500 copies
of their game. Nothing wrong with that.
>Or Eric could be too busy to take new companies and he may have no choice
but to ignore you. (guess
>how I know...) Have a alternative plan how you sell your inventory. Never
make any business plans
Or I haven't seen your message yet. Which of course could be due to being
too busy, sick for a week, just confused from lack of sleep, or DNS and DSL
problems during the last week, since all are true. Anyway, I looked for
messages from you can couldn't find one, so I'm betting on DNS problems.
Feel free to try again.
Cheers,
Eric Rowe
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.wizards-attic.com
