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June 15, 2021 at 11:22 pm #1656291

blinky465

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Just something some of you aspiring rules writers might like to bear in mind: Viking Direct UK now do on-demand hardback printing at a really reasonable price. We just had ten A5 hardback books printed (it was a family project where we all read stories for the younger kids to read along to, like audio books) for the grand sum of £58.

That’s less than six quid a book for a glossy-covered, A5, 150 page book – just upload a PDF and a bitmap for a book jacket and six days later, they turn up in the post.

If anyone has a ruleset they’d like to see turned into “something real” (ahem, @warzan ‘s Scooby-Doo game) even a single copy can be had for less than twenty of your English pounds.

Fancy self-publishing your own ruleset and seeing how it fairs in the marketplace? At six quid for a professionally bound hardback book, the production costs aren’t extortionate (produced in the UK, not in China). But as an exercise it’d be pretty interesting: add in your art costs, marketing/advertising and promotion, distribution, 50% cut for the retailer etc. and see how much you get to bank at £25-£30 retail price a copy. Suddenly not so unreasonable…… 😉

https://viking-virtualprinthouse.co.uk