Guest Week 5 – Dying’s Easy
We’ve known Lauren for a while, and Glenn more recently. Turns out they have a New Comic with a cast of characters I wholeheartedly approve.
Sooooooooo. FTF will resume normal updating Monday. Rejoice!
So far, I ran into a snag with the comic book. Long story short: If I did a full color collection of FTF Year 1, all 260 strips, then with formatting and such, it would come to 282 pages, and I’d have to price it at $35 or more. That’s a HUGE book for a webcomic, for one thing, and secondly… I didn’t like that price point. Call me a bad Capitalist if you will, but I prefer that our book collections stay low enough to sell to average working class joes. This means I try to keep them under a $20 price point. Would some people buy a 282 page book for $40? Sure! But I’d rather put out 2 6-month collections at 140 pages and price them about $19.
We’ll see. As I type this, the proof for Book 1, 6-month version, is winging its way to me.
Heh, if you think that there is a substantive difference between 1 at $38 each and 2 at $19 each, you are indeed a bad capitalist. 😀
Well, actually there IS a difference: With 2 volumes you get to pay sales tax and shipping twice, which makes it MORE expensive…
Sales tax is (always?) a percentage, so technically speaking, you’d be paying the same pre-shipping cost either way. Assuming the same Amazon warehouse for all possible outcomes, of course…
Also: there may not be a difference between 1 at $38 and 2 at $19, but there IS a difference between 0 at $38 and 1 at $19.
So are you putting out both 140 page books together for $19, or are the two costing $19 each?
If they cost $19 each, I’d rather pay $40 for both in one big volume, in full color. For us working class joes, $40 is usually our luxury purchase of the paycheck, and I’d gladly make it mine, even as a working class college student.
yes but as a capitalist minion I will be paying tax and shipping not grant. Lead on “good capitalist grant”. 🙂
Aaaand what does an increase in price to the consumer generally do to quantity demanded, upon which, among a few other things, profit maximization depends?
You’ve heard the one about they guy who listed his old Subaru for sale at $1,000,000, and when his friend opined that he wouldn’t get many buyers at that price he replied that he only needed one? 🙂
Honestly, if you can afford to have 3 different versions on-hand, I’d say make both available – the 2 six-month editions, and the 1 full-year edition. Some of us will be budget-constrained and by them six months at a time, and some of us will be glomping the full year.
This has crossed my mind. It’ll cost me nothing but time to do it that way, and I figure more is merrier. Both the 6 month and 12 month collections have their pros and cons.
Topataco seems to do a good job by Questionable Content, so you might look into that; I saw the books at Gencon and they looked nice (I was too broke by that point).
Also may I suggest a kickstarter?
If the proof is already in route, I would assume that payment for printing has been made. Or at least a percentage as a deposit has been made.
And Topataco lost both of my orders for the first 2 QC books. They fixed the issue right away but I did want to mention that.
I actually saw a .50 Browning cartridge loaded with a soft point bullet, once. It was by itself, on a shelf in the workshop of the guy I get most of my holsters from. Was too busy getting a custom holster made to ask for details.
Price it however you like but my preferences run, in order: Full year. Autographed. Hard Cover or, at a minimum, Trade Paperback. Price is less of an issue than you may presume. Just crank out a few bonus strips or a back-story and you’re a God.
Of course, I’m prolly the only one of your income-impaired readers who’s willing to cough up the extra bucks for a “special” edition that doesn’t need to ride on the shirt bus.
Gimme a price. . .
mmm, I’ll take either one; my preference, the single volume. just hoping you are going to keep cranking for many more volumes to come.
What, no hover-text?